Wars and development

Wars and development

1. Cocaine and the economic deterioration of Bolivia

   • How has affected the new cocaine market on the structure and lives of rural Bolivians? A: the Bolivian cocaine trade has drawn males from the countryside, disrupted communications, destroyed families, unbalanced the local diet, and upset traditional social organization. Distorsion of the cultural and social patterns of the Quechua Indians
   • How have the western economies affected the traditional patterns of the Pocona community? Is there a relevant pattern in Latin America in regard to the drug crops in small rural towns?
   • How do western consumerism patterns affect the third world economies?
   • What are the difference between the legal market and illegal market in the agricultural commodities? A: There is not quite difference due to the market principles.
   • What are some characteristic of the narco elites in underdeveloped countries in comparison to other elites in other developed countries? A: They income is not substantially large enough.
   • What are the characteristics of the cocaine trade in Pocona? A: Women are left alone to work, harvest the field of potatoes. The crops are difficult to sell due to the long distance.
   • What is the effect of the cocaine market on the Bolivian economy? A: It is a major contributor to the destruction of the Bolivian Economy Inflation.
   • How is the consumption of coca in the Pocona village? + How much labor is needed for the cocaine production in the land?
   • What are the health implications of the pisacocas?
   • What is the role of women in the production of cocaine? They are sexually abused and work as ants.
   • Have the effort of the USA to eradicate the drug problem affected the cocaine production in Bolivia?
   • How is the coca production cycle distributed in Bolivia?