Actions to Eradicate Crops Considered Illicit in Latin America and Brazil

This paper discusses the initiatives and programs put in place in Latin American countries ”particularly Brazil” to eradicate illegal cultivation, as well as their negative consequences on the farmers who participate in them and those who do not. The article tackles the question of the cultivation of plants such as cannabis, considered to have rather a different illegality. Such cultivation includes a considerable quantity of people in an activity which, in the drug production chain, is not a violent crime in the criminological sense despite the fact that work takes place outside the regulatory framework.