Erradicación en suspenso: La dimensión simbólica de la pacificación negociada en el VRAEM

The article explains the heterogeneous implementation of coca crop eradication in Peru, particularly successive suspensions VRAEM, most important producer. VRAEM allows examining state capacity and relations with non-state actors’ resistance, growers. We conclude that tolerance responds to a process accumulation State's symbolic capital, produced negotiation These social actors demand return recognition their role economy pacification established order. This order is hybrid, but it makes possible development, control violence, avoids monopolizing illicit by insurgent actors.