Word: bolivia
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...book remains very much a fun read, highly suitable for beach-towel browsing. In what current novel can you meet Robert Suarez, the "Cocaine King of the World," head of a $400 million dollar operation which harvests, refines and exports the leaf, gathering it from the hillsides of Bolivia and transporting it to the skichalets of Aspen and the dorms of Choate...
...different sense, Easy Rider. In Butch Cassidy they really did screw up--Paul Newman and Robert Redford should have known not to rob that bank in the end. But they didn't really have a choice. The alternative was to loll around some more in that town in Bolivia and argue about who was sleeping with Katharine Ross. In the face of that, a screw up be comes the noble choice. European culture doesn't have a tradition of screw-ups, probably because when things have gone wrong in the twentieth century--namely, two world wars--Europe...
...swaggering sense of invulnerability first earns him a role as gorilla soldier in the army of Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), a car and drug dealer. In the class structure of Sunbelt crime, Frank is the middle-class middle man, tangling fatally with both the coke aristocracy of Bolivia and Tony, his proletarian successor. He has two things Tony wants: power and a bored blond mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer), with a Kew-pie-doll mouth soured into a who-cares sneer and the bad habit of powdering her nose from the inside. Tony also develops a paternal letch for his teen...
...Salvador, for example-is now called "another Viet Nam." If the Grenada operation had lasted more than a week, one can be sure the dreaded memory would have been hauled out yet again. Che Guevara once promised two, three (American radicals added "many") Viet Nams. He went to Bolivia to get things started, but got himself killed instead. And yet our haunted imaginations have produced more Viet Nams than Che could have dreamed...
...coke glut could last until late 1984, and possibly into 1985. High-grade coke started flooding South Florida last spring, after illegal Colombian coca plantations seeded four years ago started bringing in four crops annually, double those produced in Peru and Bolivia, where coca is grown legally. Colombian smuggling groups anticipated the record crop by upping the refining capacities of their labs. "They've overproduced, like General Motors turning out too many Chevrolets," says Nehrbass. Coke's wholesale price in Colombia has fallen from $22,000 to $9,000 in the past year. To reduce inventories, drug wholesalers...