Under the Flag of Law Enforcement
ON JUNE 28 OF LAST YEAR, SHORTLY BE- fore Bolivia passed a new law aimed at control- ling coca production, ...
DOES THE POPE DO DOPE?
WHEN POPE JOHN PAUL II VISITED BOLIVIA last year, the press published daily accounts of the number of cups of ...
DRUG WARS The Rule of the Game
"Our message to the drug cartels is this," George Bush told the nation last September when he unveiled his ad- ...
Going to the Source
A grizzled group of men gathers every evening on the veranda of Tingo Marla's Hotel de Turistas to drink beer ...
EL DORADO GONE AWRY
COCA BLANKETS THE HILLS SURROUNDING Peru's Huallaga Valley and carpets much of Bolivia's Chapare. These two regions, now a drug ...
The Addict Economies
DEEP INSIDE BOLIVIA'S SIGLO XX TIN MINE, three men get ready to begin their day's work. Not long ago, this ...
THE MAGIC BULLET
IT IS THE DRUG WARRIOR'S DREAM: A chemical applied from the air that makes coca plants shrivel up and die ...
