Cocalero novels

Diego Juarez finds sanctuary with the Ricardo family after escaping an illegal cocaine operation, but his safe haven is destroyed when the army destroys the family's crop and livelihood and Diego joins a protest of the government's actions, which leads to a dramatic standoff.

In order to make more money for his family, twelve-year-old Diego, who lives with his imprisoned mother in the San Sebasti?n Women's Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia, leaves his job as an errand boy and begins working as part of an illegal cocaine operation.

Diego Juarez finds sanctuary with the Ricardo family after escaping an illegal cocaine operation, but his safe haven is destroyed when the army destroys the family's crop and livelihood and Diego joins a protest of the government's actions, which leads to a dramatic standoff.