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The epidemic of crack

            
             In the early 1980's a new drug called crack-cocaine appeared on the streets.
             Also at the time when many youth in the inner city were being forced in the underground .
             economy in order to survive. Many new burdens were being added to the poor in addition to poverty, unemployment, lousy health care, falling apart schools and crumbling housing.The spread of crack brought intensified conflicts between street organizations and the desperation of people addicted to the pipe. The government launched brutal new invasions by the police a so called "war on drugs" using the epidemic of crack as an excuse.
             This war on the people resulted in police brutality and murder, incarcination of latino and african american youth plus a corruption of a generation. Like heroin in the vietnam era it was believed that the crack epidemic was also introduced by authorities themselves. New facts prove that the C.I.A. was in fact distributing crack cocaine and shipped the profits to the CIA-run army of Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News is the expose' of this information. In result of his work based upon .
             recently declassified reports, federal court testimonies, undercover tapes, court records and hundreds of hours of interviews over a 12 month period. This was able to reveal important information such as the names of Contra operatives who bought tons of cocaine from the Colombian drug cartels and passed it on to various drug-dealing networks within the U.S. Also how the salvidorian government airforce flew the cocaine into Texas airfeilds.The flow of cheap cocaine entered into ghetto streets of Las Angeles and then beyond. There is also information proving that the U.S. government covered up these operations. It was a long struggle to break through the government barrier and bring attention to there part in this epidemic.
             There has been articles stating that the CIA sold crack to finance there secret war in central america.


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