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The Big White Lie. The CIA and The Cocaine/Crack Epidemic. An Undercover Odysey.
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Levine, Michael
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Artículo Disponible
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363.45 L665
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Donado
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According to the author Michael Levin, the war on drugs is the "biggest, whitest, and deadliest" lie ever perpetrated on U.S. citizens by their governement. As a 25-year veteran agent for the DEA, Levine worked deep-cover drug cases from Bangkok to Buenos Aires, adn everywhere he went was a firsthand witness to scandalous violations of drug laws by U.S. officials.
In the Big White Lie, Levine leads the reader through the odyssey of over a decade of undercover work as he lived it - repeating vebatim conversations and describing what he saw and did - as a way of telling the real history of the U.S. drug epidemic. Levine's prose is fast-moving, hishly-redable, and hard-hitting. He tells how the beautiful South American "Queen of Cocaine" seduced the CIA into protecting her from prosecution as she sold drugs to Americans; how a pro-DEA Bolivian ruling party was overthrown, its members tortured and killed by CIA-sponsored paramilitary terrorists; and how the CIA created La Corporación, the "General Motors of Cocaine," which led directly to the current cocaine/crack epidemic. Drugs are unarguably a scourge on U.S. society, with incalculable direct and indirect costs in drug-related crime, deaths, and injury. Levine hopes that his book will open readers' eyes to the U.S. government's questionable actions in its unsuccessful "war on drugs", and the fact that, while the U.S. government taxes Americans billions of dollars for stopping drugs, it is, at the same time, flooding its own shores with them. |
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1-56025-064-X
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Thunder's Mouth Press
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1993
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472
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United States of America
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New York
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English
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Priscila Barrientos
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Priscila Barrientos
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19/03/2015
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19/03/2015
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