The Crack Movement, or literature of the crack generation (Spanish: la generación del 'crack'), was a literary movement in Mexico in the mid-1990s formed by Ignacio Padilla, Jorge Volpi, Eloy Urroz, Pedro Angel Paláu and Ricardo Chávez-Castañeda as a reaction to the Latin American Boom. Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... See also 1990s, the band Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... Jorge Volpi [born July 10, 1968] in Mexico City. ... Latin American literature refers to the literature of Latin America. ...