San Antonio College Library

Cocaine Confidential goes inside the lives of the coca farmers, the jungle sweat-shop workers, the smugglers, the suppliers, and, ultimately, the dealers who provide for the world's hundreds of millions of users, to reveal their stories for the first time.

"This book shows how the commercialization of cocaine was driven by cartels, pharmaceutical companies, and private enterprises across Europe, Asia, and the United States. Featuring new and reorganized chapters, A Brief History of Cocaine, Second Edition contains the latest data and statistics that correlate drug trafficking to terrorism and illustrate recent trends in worldwide production, consumption, cost competition, and international transport....

"Spillane examines phenomena that have eluded earlier students of drug history. He explores the role of American business in fostering consumer interest in cocaine during the years when no law proscribed its use, the ways in which authorities and social agents tried nonetheless to establish informal controls on the substance, and the mixed results they achieved." "Arguing that the underground drug culture had origins other than in federal prohibition,...

"Colombia's $5-billion-a-year cocaine trade has funded brutal civil war involving leftist guerillas, right-wing paramilitaries, and a national government severely undermined by corruption. This Wide Angle report spotlights the efforts of Maria Cristine Chirolla, head of the Colombian attorney general's anti-money laundering office, to crack down on the drug lords"--Container.

Examines how our government fostered the drug trade and worked with narcotics traffickers in Central America.