Loyal soldiers in the cocaine kingdom : tales of drugs, mules, and gunmen / Alfredo Molano ; translated by James Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molano, Alfredo.

Contributor:

Graham, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug traffic--Colombia.

Drug traffic.

Drug dealers--Colombia.

Drug dealers.

Cocaine industry--Colombia.

Cocaine industry.

Colombia.

Physical Description:

ix, 158 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]

Summary:

"Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom" opens a window on a rarely glimpsed world: the couriers who transport drugs from Colombia into the United States and Europe. Written by one of Colombia's leading writers, the book lets English-speaking readers get a good look -- for the first time -- at the people behind the drug trade. Colombians from many different backgrounds and parts of the country tell the story of how they got involved in smuggling and how some of them managed to get out alive. This book is about the predicament in which ordinary Colombians find themselves, forced to find a way out of poverty in the middle of an unending civil war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0231129149

0231129157

OCLC:

52819956