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“There are no
children. A basketball court and other children’s activities can be
seen through this neighborhood. Drug dealers make up the largest
percentage of inmates, understandable when you consider that
Bolivia is the largest producer of the coca leaves used for cocaine.
Our guide Freddie informed us that he is a cocaine dealer and a
loan shark.
We next visited the poorest section which was Freddie’s
neighborhood. He tells us that this is where the “vampires” live.
A vampire is a drug addict who has no money, usually young
and sleeps the day away. Since this neighborhood has no street
lights at night, it becomes a crime scene where people are taken
advantage of, yes even in prison there is a crime area.
There is an active cocaine business taking place in this prison
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Life in Naples | January 2016
guards in the
prison itself so
we wandered
among the worst
”of the worst.
and Freddie was comfortable talking about the various steps that it
took in order to get this “product” ready for export. Freddie states that
he does not use this drug while in prison since he has no friends and
is afraid that he would be lulled into a stupor and taken advantage of.
Freddie was set to be released from prison within a few months so I
asked about his plans for the future. He mentioned that his family had
encouraged him to return to his home town and work with them in
their restaurant. He didn’t find this appealing or lucrative so he would
continue with his cocaine business, meaning this friendly young man
would lead a life of crime. It was quite a life experience visiting La
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