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9780231129152

Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom: Tales of Drugs, Mules, and Gunmen

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  • ISBN13:

    9780231129152

  • ISBN10:

    0231129157

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-03-01
  • Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PRESS

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Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdomopens 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. Based on Alfred Molano's visits to Spanish and Latin American jails, Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdomcombines the gut-wrenching honesty of testimonial literature with the passionate storytelling we have come to expect from Latin America. In his native Colombia Molano has been compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and indeed the many layered narratives in this book resemble harrowing fictions.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
TRANSLATOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
FROM THE MAELSTROM, WITH THEIR COUNTRY ON THEIR BACKS 1(1)
James Graham
The Mule Driver 1(23)
Scuzzhall 24(11)
Hanged Man 35(10)
Eight Years, Three Months, One Day 45(24)
Sharon's Diary 69(29)
The Nun 98(22)
Puppet 120(35)
NOTES 155

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