The impacts of the drug war on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America

An overview

Bibliographic Data

ID4654435
AuthorsB C Labate (0000-0002-9795-0859, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, corresponding author), Thiago Rodrigues (0000-0002-0962-0391, Universidade Federal Fluminense, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume7
Issue1
Pages48-57
Publication date2023-04-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Psychedelic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2559-9283 • E-ISSN: 2559-9283
PublisherAkademiai Kiado Zrt (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1556/2054.2023.00239
OpenAlexW4323049316
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited10

This paper aims at presenting an overview of the historic and current features concerning the relationship among original peoples, psychoactive drugs, and various forms of anti-drug practices in Latin America. The current expansion of extractivist capitalism in Latin America overlaps with Indigenous peoples' traditional lands, provoking new forms of violence and confrontation. The War on Drugs is being used as a justification to militarize these lands and to criminalize Indigenous populations. Thus, neo-extractivist initiatives in Latin America provoke renewed clashes between Indigenous peoples' interests and local and global elites' purposes. We seek to raise awareness about the relationship between the drug war and Indigenous people's human rights violations as an alert and an invitation for social scientists to engage in theoretical and empirical research on this issue

Capitalism · Criminology · Development economics · Economic growth · Human rights · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Ecology

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