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So it's summer where in my free time I like to chill on a beach and read a good book, have you read any good ones lately ?

I have just finished reading Marching Powder, a true story about cocaine in La Paz a Bolivia jail, really good book.

I was in La Paz last year, is that the Jail now that they haveturned into a cocaine museum that your are refering to from the book?

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So it's summer where in my free time I like to chill on a beach and read a good book, have you read any good ones lately ?

I have just finished reading Marching Powder, a true story about cocaine in La Paz a Bolivia jail, really good book.

I was in La Paz last year, is that the Jail now that they haveturned into a cocaine museum that your are refering to from the book?

Don't think so - its about a dude in San Pedro Prison in La Paz, Bolivia. Here is the blurb

This memoir of a British drug dealer's nearly five years inside a Bolivian prison provides a unique window on a bizarre and corrupt world. McFadden, a young black man from Liverpool arrested for smuggling cocaine, finds himself forced to pay for his accommodations in La Paz's San Pedro Prison, the first of many oddities in a place where some inmates keep pets and rich criminals can sustain a lavish lifestyle. The charismatic McFadden soon learns how to survive, and even thrive, in an atmosphere where crooked prison officials turn up at his private cell to snort lines of coke. By chance, he stumbles on an additional source of income when he begins giving tours of the prison to foreign tourists, a trade that leads to the mention in a

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Im just thinking if its the same one I visited, as it has the same history and they had tourists visiting there at some stage when it was still a offical prison and tourists could buy cocaine of the prisoners etc....Now the prison is just a museum with a history on the origins of cocaine etc..

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