... the trafficking of Columbia's newest illegal export: cocaine. Columbia had already been successful at transporting marijuana to North America, by the time cocaine became popular in the United States. Columbia's strategic location between the cocoa crop countries of Peru and Bolivia gave delinquents a great opportunity to start trafficking this drug as well (Adams 24). In the 1970s, Escobar, who was currently a car thief ... and violent drug cartels. Works Cited Bowden, Mark. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. This book gives ...

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