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Cocaine: White Gold Rush In Peru
Morales, Edmundo. Cocaine: White Gold Rush In Peru. University of Arizona Press. February 1990, 291 pages.
 "In Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru, Edmundo Morales, a native of Peru now working in drug research for the State of New York, offers a candid behind-the-scenes look at the world of cocaine from the remote Peruvian jungle plots where the coca plant is cultivated, to the primitive laboratories where coca paste and cocaine alkaloid are extracted from coca leaves, and on to the distribution network that moves the cocaine to Columbia, whenice it is shipped to points north. Morales shows how the cocaine trade has come to dominate the economic, political, and social climate of Peru, which is the source of nearly two-thirds of the world coca crop. . . . Morales's study confirms that, for Peru, the cocaine industry is a problem not of drug use and abuse, but of economics. Barring a sharp drop in demande, current proposed anti-coca programs are bound to fail, because what economic force can replace coca?"
-- Wayne Lutton, National Review
About the Author
Edmundo Morales was born in a mountain village, grew up speaking Spanish and Quechua (the native highland dialect), and was educated in the US (Ph.D. sociology, CUNY).
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