Abstract

DUARTE, Joana das Flores. The New Sugar: The Cocaine Route from A Gender Perspective. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2022, vol.30, n.1, e75162.  Epub Jan 01, 2022. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2022v30n175162.

The cocaine route was not born in the 1970s, via Colombia, but at the end of the 19th century, in 1860, more precisely in the commercial relationship between Peru and Germany. It is regarding the emergence of this route that we will approach this article, with the aim of showing how the relationship of center and periphery of the drug market was constituted. The result of doctoral research, our investigation focused on the drug market in peripheral countries, due to the billionaire amounts handled by global financial institutions (banks) to launder this illegal money, and the imprisonment of women through their work as mules, in the period 2006-2016. The drug market is currently one of the sources of employment for poor, Black women, both young and old, with children, single, having little schooling, living in the periphery and with precarious access to civic rights.

Keywords : gender; drug market; dependent economy; Latin America.

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