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Black market cocaine trade begins to surface in the U.S. and Europe.
Date: 1950s
Drugs & alcohol
Europe
Global South
Many Americans first encounter cocaine when visiting Havana, Cuba. U.S. anxiety about the drug expands, and multiple strategies to end cocaine production are funded throughout Latin America.
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