De selva a polvo: Impactos socioeconómicos y ambientales de la prohibición de la cadena de producción de coca y cocaína en la cuenca amazónica y en Brasil

Intersecção analiza cómo la prohibición de las drogas impulsa la deforestación, la violencia y la desigualdad en la región, vinculando la “guerra contra las drogas” con la crisis climática global y llamando a una reducción ecológica de daños y una regulación basada en derechos. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Over the last one hundred years, the global drug prohibition regime has established an innovative, resilient, corrupt, extractivist and transnational economic system.

By criminalizing plants of traditional use and their users, prohibitionist policy ensures that the violence of repression and environmental destruction remain localized in certain territories and social groups, while financial profits circulate across borders.

It is a system that rewards logistical control, territorial monopoly and infrastructural camouflage while punishing transparency and community governance. Its intersectional effects are particularly visible in Latin America due to the geographic concentration of coca and cocaine production.

Prohibition transformed coca, a sacred Indigenous plant, into the raw material of a war economy — without ever reducing the production or use of cocaine. Instead, supply and demand continue to break historical records.