Cocaine Unwrapped

In our class of the History of Latin America, we watched the film Cocaine Unwrapped, which was able to provide an understanding of Venezuela’s wraith thiss drug. Being more curious about this topic, I was able to find a documentary series, Narcos, which gives the battle of cocaine in the neighboring state. Both of these states had been having a long, hurtful battle with cocaine. Two different sides of the war on narcotics that affected every citizen of the cities and towns in multiple ways. Venezuela and Colombia had violent history with cocaine, but Venezuela had more of a problem with the people of the government and wanting to be able to provide for their families from planting the coca plant legally. This paper will argue that Latin America has been extremely effected by the violent events that have occurred from the war on Drug, especially in Colombia. Narcos, which is a TV show made by Netflix, that re-creates events on the war of Narcotics in Latin America and the Americas with Pablo Escobar. Escobar one of the wealthiest men on …show more content…
The people of Venezuela are not all drug lords, who are like Pablo Escobar; however, these people grow the plant and make teas and other substances out of this product of coca. At the time, the government was going through every coca plant farm they found and digging up the plants, so there was no way that cocaine could be made in the state under the law enforcement’s supervision. The people eventually are able to fight for their right to live by the way of growing the coca plant. The plant of coca is not a drug, but when mixed with cement mixture and gasoline.1 When used in this way, the plant of coca is able to become the powerful drug, known as cocaine; If not, the plant is not anything like the