Dudus Coke: President for Life
In the nineteen eighties and nineties, West Kingston becomes a city within a city, its poorest ward sealed from the outside world by concrete, zinc and armed men. Christopher Coke, known everywhere as Dudus, runs Tivoli Gardens as a parallel government, distributing food and school fees where no ministry reaches while moving cocaine and weapons across a network the Drug Enforcement Administration calls one of the most durable in the Caribbean. His operation stretches across more than a decade, protected by a political relationship between his garrison and a ruling party that neither side ever…
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