The Changing Role of Drugs in Traditional Societies

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Moderators:
Ms. Margaret Choe, Ms. Mary Silvernale
Drugs and National Security Colloquium

Interlocutor

Indigenous People: The Impact of Production and Trafficking
Dr. Jason W. Clay

Panelists

Coca Production in the Andes-Implications for Rural Development in Bolivia and Peru
Dr. Elena Alvarez
A research associate professor, the center for policy research, SUNY-Albany and a research Fellow, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, SUNY, she is the Project Director, "the Economics and Political Economy of Coca Production in the Andes: Implications for US Foreign Policy and Rural Development in Bolivia and Peru."

The Impact of Cocaine Trafficking on Peru
Mr. Gustavo Gorriti
The former executive news editor and investigative reporter of Caretas magazine in Lima, he covered the Peruvian narcotics syndicates and their links to both government forces and the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) Maoist terrorists. A former Nieman Fellow, he is now a Guggenheim Fellow in Residence at Harvard's Center for Latin American Studies, where he is researching the cocaine revolution in the "White Triangle" of Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia and the impact of the narcotics trade on insurgencies and counterinsurgencies.

Cocaine in the Bolivian Peasant Society
Dr. Ray Henkel
A professor of geography at Arizona State University, he has just returned from the Chapare region of Bolivia and is an expert on Cocaine and the Bolivian economy, with a specific concentration on the role of peasants in the cocaine industry. His forthcoming book is to be titled The U.S. Latin American Cocaine Network.

Burma: Indigenous Peoples Mired in 'Foreign Mud'
Ms. Edith T. Mirante
An artist and writer, as director of Project Maje, an independent information project on the political situation in Burma, particularly the frontier war and related narcotics and human rights issues, she produced the human rights survey summarized in the report, I am still alive: Report of a Survey on Human Rights Abuse in Frontier Areas of Burma, 1983-1986.

The Effects of Coca and Cocaine Production on the Peruvian Peripheries
Dr. Edmundo Morales
The project director of Narcotic and Drug Research, Inc., he is a professional photographer and researcher of the Andean culture and its people and the author of Cocaine: The White Gold Rush in Peru.

This evening will be marked by unusual visual presentations-a slide show by Dr. Morales and segments from the 1982 British documentary The Frontier Trilogy-Bolivia, Colombia, & Peru by Mr. Peter Buseo. This panel is being co-sponsored by Cultural Survival Inc., Cambridge and the Tufts Anthropology Collective.