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THE DRUGLORD.
Neissa, Peter A. 2004 210 pgs. (pbk) ISBN: 091574526 $32.95
It is the true life story of Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, the drug lord of the Bogota
branch of the Colombian Drug Cartel, this historical novel offers a factual and
knowledgeable Colombian perspective that well connected Colombians have known for years:
the real Drug Cartel, a group consisting of over two-hundred drug traffickers, met for the
first time in 1976, not to discuss drugs, but to devise a solution to the kidnapping and
murders inflicted upon them by the Marxist guerrillas. This led to cooperation on other
matters --like cocaine. The Drug Lord, born an outcast in 1952, during Colombia's bloody
civil war, rose from poverty to multi-billionaire status in the violent world of cocaine
traffic. It is the gripping story of the Drug Lord's history when at age six, he witnesses
the massacre of his family by the Colombian Army. It shows his involvement with the
adolescent city gang, El Centro, which controlled Colombia's lucrative emerald black
market, to the Cartel's development from a national to international status. The
Colombian Drug Lord,
very much like Mexican drug lords,
is also the story of a country (Colombia) torn apart by violence,
the war against drug --the oligarchy against the poor,
government against popular uprisings, drug massacres, social and class conflicts,
kidnappings-- of business, love and myopic U.S. policy in Latin America devoted to stamp
communism at any price. Mr. Neissa posits that the Colombian Drug Cartel is, like the
Mafia, deeply entrenched in their native cultures, and
eventually will survive war on drugs. Themes in this
biography are cocaina, Colombian drug cartel,
drug trafficking, drug war,
Medellín, narcotráfico,
war on drugs, "colombian drug cartel." Most highly recommended.
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