The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezualan Prison Nightmare

An unforgettable cocktail of drugs, riots, rape, beatings, murders, and kidnappings—the unbelievable true story of years spent in a South American jail

It won't happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did—I got caught.

Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan antidrugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged in...