But this one was more or less entertaining, so it wasn't a total wash. So, I'm going to have to get a more authoritative book. And then they totally sold it all to the Colombians.oh, and it was the Colombian mafia, and then the cocaine traffickers ended up working with the Miami cops to rip them off, and.oh, but before that, did I tell you about how the Bahamian government was, like, totally corrupt? Anyway, and now some people are in jail and some other people are dead, and it was like totally exciting and cool." "So first, like, there were these cocaine smugglers.no, well, before the smugglers there were a bunch of, like, political events in Bolivia and they ended up with like a ton of coca plants. But in actuality, it reads like the monologue of an adolescent girl recounting her day at school: It's one of those histories that is supposed to read like a gripping novel. I ended up committing the librarianly faux pas of reading through the whole book before checking in the back to make sure it had a real bibliography and would therefore have a good chance of being reliable and well-written. This was one of the many books I've grabbed from the returns truck in the library and brought home without really looking at it closely.
Drei englische Journalisten haben es in mehr als zweieinhalbjähriger Arbeit und detaillierter Recherche geschafft, die Vorgänge und Menschen, die hinter den Schlagzeilen und Koks-Sensationsstorys stehen, aufzudecken und in ihrem Buch zu präsentieren.I've been trying to learn more about this (mostly) crappy city that I live in now, and the cocaine renaissance of the 70's & 80's seemed like as good a place as any to start. Coverstorys in den prominenten amerikanischen Nachrichtenmagazin TIMES und NEWSWEEK sowie Leitartikel aller wichtigen US-Blätter haben sich bereits mit dieser geheimnisvollen Gruppe von Drogenbaronen auseinandergesetzt, die ihre Zentrale anscheinend im Touristenstädtchen Medellin in Kolumbien haben. Hinter diesem schneeweißen Reich steht eine einzige Gruppe, deren Name die Rauschgiftszene von Kolumbien über Panama und die Bahamas bis nach Miami und in die Crack-Häuser von New York beherrscht: das Kartell.
Ein Thema, das zu einem der wichtigsten Punkte im amerikanischen Wahlkampf gehört.
Ein industrielles Imperium, das reicher und mächtiger ist ald die Ford Motor Company.
Kokain - die teuerste Ware der Welt, die Droge, die längst Teil des amerikanischen Alltags geworden ist.
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