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...
Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom opens a window on a rarely glimpsed world: the couriers who transport drugs from Colombia into the United...
This book is proof that today s Latin American literature reaches far and digs deep. Alfredo Molano isn t a novelist or poet, but rather a sociologist who realizes that the way to understand wasn t to study people but to listen to them. The testimonies that Molano collects are a point of departure for a work that knows how to relate, like few others can, Colombia s pain in a language that has more colors than the rainbow. Eduardo Galeano, author of "Upside Down" and "Open Veins of Latin America"
The people whose stories Molano tells are not social activists. They do not provide...
This book is proof that today s Latin American literature reaches far and digs deep. Alfredo Molano isn t a novelist or poet, but rather a sociolo...
