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tittypete's review
2.0
This book was dryer than a popcorn fart. Dense, slow-moving reportage about the US Government's blind eye for coke smuggling during it's dirty wars down south. The Boland amendment said no more financing the Contras. But Reagan and Ollie North wanted to help the contras anyway so they let them fly up from Costa Rica and Honduras with drugs and back down with guns and didn't say shit. The interesting part of this book was the bit on the media and how major outlets (NYT, WP et al) wouldn't print any stories about it even though they were aware it was going on. This was to protect their relationships with the white house. If you piss off the prez you don't get any more hot scoops. Anyway this book was boring and really just added granular detail to stuff I was already aware of.
The end.
The end.
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