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Who is Mark Johnson from Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail and what is their importance?

Asked by bookragstutor on 25 Oct 12:59

Last updated by anonymous on 25 Mar 08:54

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Answered by MHood2 on 25 Mar 08:54

Mark Johnson is an American journalist working freelance for a Bolivian newspaper who comes unannounced to Thomas's cell to interview him. Thomas does not like Johnson's rude, nosy questions, and he concocts an outlandish story about himself as a Jamaican terrorist who was arrested before he could carry out a bombing scheme. Johnson believes him, but when his article appears, it is mostly an expose of the prison, with only a mention of the "Jamaican terrorist."