Cocaina
Subtitle: a book on those who made it
By: Magnus Linton ; translated by John Eason
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781619022935
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Drug dealers; Drug traffic; Cocaine industry; Drug control
Work titles: Cocaina
Description: Describes the social, political, and economic effects of the illicit cocaine trade in Colombia since the death of Pablo Escobar, from the individual effect on destitute Colombian citizens to the nation's relations with its socialist Latin American neighbors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-274).
Table of contents: title: Cocaturismo : Medillin as heaven; title: Green gold : the carousel of war; title: Pablo's party : the state gets cancer; title: The war on drugs : from Nixon to Obama; title: Manana : the future of the powder.