Merchandising doubt in the periphery: some lessons from the glyphosate debate in Colombia

Figures & data

Figure 1. The glyphosate debate on Twitter in Spanish, 2010–2019.

Figure 2. Accounts with higher degree centrality in Twitter, 2010–2019.

Figure 3. Dominant hashtags in the glyphosate debate in Colombia, 2010–2019.

Figure 4. Spikes in the number of tweets about glyphosate in Colombia, 2019.

Figure 5. Hashtags used together with glyphosate in Colombia, 2019.

Figure 6. Former President Uribe Vélez shares Rueda’s opinion pieces (“Due to a political decision, more than a health one, [Santos] removed glyphosate, and gradually the country was flooded with coca again”).

Figure 7. Tweet supporting Rueda’s opinion pieces (“The worrying thing is that JMSantos negotiated the country with FARC bosses. Those 200,000 hectares of coca have one objective: to finance the seizure of Power through vote”).

Figure 8. Tweet supporting Rueda’s opinion pieces (“For those who criticize María Isabel Rueda, here are the results of having stopped using glyphosate, I want the spraying to return, but NOW! because that ‘peace’ agreement only served to bring impunity, bad example and coca even in the places where it had already been eradicated.” Newspaper headline: Colombia produces about 70% of the world’s cocaine: UN).

Figure 9. Tweet criticizing Rueda’s opinion pieces (“With all due respect, Maria Isabel Rueda’s space has become her petty cash (or income cascade); she defends glyphosate with this document, she became the press chief of A.U.V. [Álvaro Uribe Vélez] She attacks peace, justifies war, in short #nomoreMariaisabelruedainLaW”).