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La noche de las luciérnagas (1980) covers José Cervantes Angulo's 1980 reportage on the marijuana trade of the Guajira and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: its author, how the book is made up, what it says about the crop, its contents and how later writers have used it. The trade itself is treated in Bonanza marimbera.
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- The book. The article rests on the first edition: the covers, the author's note, the six chapters, the appendix and the index. Passages from articles the book reprints are attributed to their writers, not to Cervantes Angulo.
- Later use. Darío Betancourt and Martha Luz García, Contrabandistas, marimberos y mafiosos (1994), and Lina Britto, Marijuana Boom (2020).
Where the sources disagree
- The night of the fireflies. Cervantes Angulo explains the reddish glints of the harvest night by spraying with panela water; the magazine article by Carlos Antonio Herrera Fernández that the book reprints explains them by the resin of punto rojo. The article gives both, attributed.
- Red Point, Santa Marta Gold and mona. Cervantes Angulo groups "Red Point" and "Santa Marta Gold" together as the top grade. Herrera Fernández's article treats Santa Marta Gold, also called mona or amarilla, and red point as two types. The Time report reprinted in the fourth chapter makes mona a type of the higher slopes.
- Indigenous growers. The first chapter's story has the first marijuana grown by Indians descended from the Arhuaco. Lina Britto (2020) states that the Indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada have not grown or used marijuana. The same passage says that the Arhuaco were exterminated by the Spanish conquerors, which is wrong (the Arhuaco live in the Sierra Nevada today), and is not repeated in the article.
- The Santa Marta thesis. The student thesis summarised in the fourth chapter is named only by its authors' first names, Betty and Frida. Britto identifies it as Betty Solórzano and Frida de Dangond's honours thesis on the socioeconomic effects of cannabis growing in Magdalena and La Guajira (Universidad Tecnológica del Magdalena, 1978), based on a survey of 20 farms.