Lia Osorio Machado

This article considers some of the interactions between the illicit drug trade and the use of we explain this boom in drug activities after territory in the Amazon basin, especially in its eastern section, which belongs to Brazil. Despite the similarities of the settlement process in the western and eastern sections of the basin, differences can be found between them that are relevant to the linkage with international drug trafficking networks. Analysis of some of the territorial and economic effects brought about by changes in the mode of organisation of the coca-cocaine complex suggests that criminal activities, although sensitive and adaptable to the local environment, tend to encourage the worst of legitimate social and economic practices, becoming a parasite of parasites.

[DOI: 10.1111/1468-2451.00326 ]

Machado, L.O. 2001. The Eastern Amazon Basin and the coca-cocaine complex. International Social Science Journal 53 (169): 387-395.