Cocaine Legend

Author: [British] Stratified Field / Yu Jing
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Fearless journalists risk their lives alone, delve into the Amazon rainforest, and get close to drug lords, agents, and guerrillas to provide firsthand materials,,the real world of cocaine. A journey 500 years ago to conquer the world opened Pandora's box, unleashing the power that terrified Western society. In pursuit of the legendary treasure of the Golden Country, Western explorers followed Columbus' footsteps, under the guise of civilization, while seizing the gold, silver, and culture of South America, also bringing the sacred relics of the Incas to Europe. Coca, the inheritor of 5,000 years of Inca culture, became a nightmare in the eyes of Europeans. The joke of history is ruthless. The conquest of Europe and America, coca conquered Europe. From Freud to Sherlock Holmes, real figures and fictional heroes were not spared. After returning to America in the guise of cocaine, it caused chaos wherever it went. Coups, corruption, murder, the backyard of America was filled with smoke, Uncle Sam was preoccupied. Drugs declared war on nations, society, and civilization. Poverty and wealth, white and black, spirit and flesh, cocaine incited class confrontation, stimulated loss and desire, turned reason back into savagery, and staged a bloody and dramatic scene in the history of mankind.