To grow coca in Peru, all you have to do is find an unclaimed hillside and cut down the trees.
Originally published August 26, 1986
“He brought his readers on a trip to a landscape that seemed not only made for them but made by them, a peculiarly visceral American place that practically none of them would ever really see.”
Originally published February 1, 1994
“The stock market, which had broken record after record since the ’82 depression, had just experienced the financial equivalent of nuclear war. It was a good excuse to drink”
Originally published October 27, 1987