What is life like after drift‐cocaine arrives in a village on Colombia's Northern Pacific coast? Drift‐cocaine is a side‐effect of the interdiction of drug transport boats heading towards Central and North America as part of the US‐Colombian War on Drugs. Villagers refer to drift‐cocaine as the White Fish. Through ethnographic engagement with Afro‐descendant peoples in Chocó, this article explores the effects and relations that emerge from an ocean turned into an amphitheatre of fishing livelihoods, drug traffickers, and military operations. By taking seriously the White Fish as the way people refer to cocaine, I focus on gossip and rumour as the strategies they employ to discuss the pervasive effects of the drug trade. I trace three interrelated discussions – concerning violence, cocaine, and the White Fish – in order to argue for the usefulness of gossip and rumour in investigative ethnographies of violence.

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捕捉白鱼：哥伦比亚北太平洋沿岸的八卦和可卡因

可卡因漂流到达哥伦比亚北太平洋沿岸一个村庄后的生活是怎样的？可卡因漂流是拦截毒品运输船的副作用，这是美国哥伦比亚反毒品战争的一部分，该船驶向中美洲和北美洲。村民们把可卡因称为白鱼。通过与乔科（Chocó）的后裔人民进行人种志交流，本文探索了从海洋变成渔业生计，毒品贩子和军事行动的露天剧场后产生的影响和关系。通过认真对待白鱼作为人们提及可卡因的方式，我将重点放在八卦和谣言上，作为他们讨论毒品交易的普遍影响的策略。我追踪了三个相互关联的讨论-有关暴力，可卡因，