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La Cocaina, La CIA y sus Capos III: La Cocaina Regresa a EEUU (y EEUU regresa a Centroamerica)

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If you remember my last video, when the US government withdrew from Vietnam and Southeast
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Asia in 1975, the amount of heroin in the cities in the United States began to decrease.
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In this video, I jumped directly into the war in Afghanistan and the resurgence, well,
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the second resurgence of heroin.
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But today, to talk about cocaine, we need to go back to just that point, in the mid-70s.
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Ruby.
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Half a century had passed since the illegalization of cocaine when it began to appear again.
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No one had even heard of it, less seen this new drug.
0:53
It turns out that the prohibition worked quite well until the government began to work against itself.
1:00
Finally, there was an exclusive drug for the ruling class.
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The hippies rejected cocaine, especially for its high price, but the new generation
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of disco loved it.
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This drug doesn't make you hungry or sleepy, and it doesn't take away the desire to cut
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your hair.
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No, it gives you energy and confidence, and new ideas for new businesses, and that same
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confidence to believe in your own bad ideas.
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And also the confidence to use this in Empire Strikes Back.
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Studio 54 opened its doors in 1977, the same year Eric Clapton released the song
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Cocaine.
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Little by little, the drug was entering the mainstream, but still something very special,
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something imported from a very exotic place, and that's why it cost hundreds of dollars
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for a tiny amount.
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But this high price and exclusivity is exactly what young professional urban
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professionals, or yuppies as we call them. It's the same people who enter a restaurant
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and order the most expensive bottle of wine on the menu, not knowing the brand, not knowing
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if it goes well with their food, no more because it is the most expensive.
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Besides, marijuana, LSD, and heroin had images of drugs for weak people,
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but cocaine, hmm, quite the opposite. This was the drug of successful people. And best
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And most of all, it doesn't cause addiction!
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We must inform you that cocaine is extremely poorly addictive.
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But cocaine powder is only a part of the story.
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Inhale cocaine through the nose, it says,
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but the nose can absorb much less of the drug, much less quickly, than the lungs.
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While the wealthy gringos were in the bathroom of Studio 54 inhaling the powder,
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in Peru, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador,
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a new form of the drug was taking hold in the neighborhoods.
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The base paste.
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Cocaine is an alkaloid that is naturally found in the coca leaf,
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but to extract it you need to use solvents.
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Solvents like ether, sulfuric acid,
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soda caustic, cement, and gasoline.
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Things that you definitely want to put in your body, right?
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It's what makes you successful.
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When the final destination of the drug was the American market,
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the producers took one more step in the purification process,
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obtaining cocaine chloride.
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This is the saline form of alkaloid, a powder that can be inhaled
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because it is easily absorbed through the mucous membranes.
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But this inhalable cocaine was only produced for the capricious market of North America.
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If the final destination for the drug was South America itself,
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