Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru

by Edmundo Morales

Book Overview

Cocaine: Much is known about the damage done by this drug in the United States; yet how much is actually known of its impact at its source? Though most processed cocaine comes from Colombia, more than half of the coca paste from which the drug is made originates in the vast jungle slopes shared by Bolivia and Peru. People here have chewed coca leaves for centuries, but only over the last twenty years has coca become a major cash crop. Now...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816511594
• ISBN13: 9780816511594
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"