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CLICK HERE TO SEND ME AN E-MAILDRUG LORD - LIFE AND DEATH OF A MEXICAN KINGPIN
This is the definitive drug exposé of all time. It tells the story of the man who started the practice of bringing Columbian Cocaine across the border from Mexico, bypassing the Florida connection altogether. He also vastly expanded the Mexican marijuana and heroin trade. This is the first exposé that tells the inside story - giving you a glimpse inside that lives of the players. The publisher sells this book for 15 dollars, with another four dollars shipping. This is brand new, never read - I have a bunch of them still in the boxes (English and Spanish) and I am selling them near wholesale cost.
Mexican drug kingpin Pablo Acosta ruled the borber town of Ojinaga, Chihuahua, like his own personal kingdom. His bribes went clear to the top. He helped transform Mexico into the biggest drug smuggling empire of all time. Crossing more marijuana, cocaine, and heroin into the United States than in what was coming through the whole state of Florida, Acosta and his gang made Ojinaga into the most important - and most secretive - drug smuggling point on the US - Mexico border.
He eventually lost his veil of cover and became the target of investigative reporters - particularly author Terrence Poppa of the El Paso, Texas newspaper "The El Paso Times".
The rights to deal drugs under the system of payoffs, according to author Terrace Poppa, is known as "The Plaza". After a long struggle between different competing drug smuggling families in Ojinaga, Pablo Acosta finally won out, and by the early 1980's he was the head of the operation that controlled nearly all of the action in Ojinaga and along the Rio Grande between El Paso and Big Bend National Park.
Besides the prodigious amounts of Mexican marijuana and heroin that he sent into the US, he began to handle a large amount of Colombian cocaine. He eventually set up a system which was later taken over by one of his lieutenants, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who was to become head of the Juarez Cartel in the 1990's - the biggest drug cartel in existence, and the main conduit for Colombian cocaine into the United States.
Payoffs to crooked politicians and police kept him under the protection of the authorities. But when he let things get out of hand, it was the Mexican police who brought him down. Suave and sophisticated Mexican Federal Police Comandante Guillermo Calderoni - who was unable to catch up with Acosta by conventional methods - stormed his desert hideout in a sudden helicopter assault from the American side of the border, and Acosta died in a hail of gunfire.
All photographs published by permission of Demand Publications, and all rights reserved by same.
From Fausto's Art Gallery in Ojinaga, Chihuahua.
shipped from Presidio, Texas, USACost is $13.99 per copy - English or Spanish available
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