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The Caribbean's antiworld, in-between the americas and the world

Abstract

We have been dealing with the geographer Roger Brunet called "antiworld" in the late 1980's. We re-defined it as the spaces of derogation (free trade zones, tax havens, etc.), informal (slum, etc.) and illegal activities (illicit drugs networks, prostitution, undocumented migrations, etc.). In the Carribean Basin, highlighted the fact that location, history, political geography and geopolitics have together created a half space and the violent rivalries around them. The domination of foreign interests - mostly north-Americans and Europeans, sometimes Colombians in the case of the illicit drug trade - and the local opposition between Nations and States is their main characteristic. Those states can best been described as middle-men, focused on the perpetuation of the political and economical power they inherited. We have seen that the illicit drugs - produced in or just drifting through the region-, the prostitution and undocumented migrants networks, as well as tourism and others are part - if not nexus- of this complex system. It is also true for the cultural spheres where rivalries around space are one of the main foundation.

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