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@[]###COLOMBIA BLAMES EUROPE FOR COCAINE BOOM #THE THIN WHITE LINE@COLOMBIA ON VERGE OF CHAOS #ONE BULLET FROM OFFICE#ESCOBAR SURRENDERS AT LAST#INSIDE THE GILDED CAGE #ESCOBAR DIES A GANGSTER'S DEATH
By 1985 a survey of the USA reported that the country had 5.8 million cocaine users, up from 4.3 million in just two years#Business was just business for Escobar: one of his suppliers of 'pasta basica'(unrefined cocaine) was the Sendero Luminoso, the Peruvian Maoist guerrilla organisation#Escobar once said, "Better a grave in Colombia than a jail cell in America". His wish was granted#In 1989, at the height of his career, Escobar's personal fortune was estimated at £1 billion and his annual personal income at £36 million, making him the fourth richest man in the world#In 1994 it was estimated that an established cocaine dealer could make as much as $12, 000 per month. A street dealer could expect to clear $37,000 per annum#In the nineteenth century, cocaine in solution was a popular tonic, and until 1904 Coca-Cola contained small quantities of the drug#Cocaine, an alkaloid substance derived from the coca plant, became widely used by dentists as a local anaesthetic towards the end of the nineteenth century. Its recreational use soon followed #Unlike heroin, the drug of the streets, cocaine was seen as smart, safe and non-addictive. It was the 'designer drug' of the Eighties, and its less chic cousin 'crack' was a billion-dollar business
