Roberto Suarez Gomez: El Rey de la Cocaina
In the late nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties, Bolivia's vast lowland territory of Beni becomes the source of a cocaine paste supply that feeds trafficking networks across the continent. The man behind it is Roberto Suarez Gomez, known as El Rey de la Cocaina, the King of Cocaine, a cattle rancher who turns his family's airstrips and land records into the financial backbone of an entire industry. He controls enough of the paste supply to offer his government roughly three billion dollars for his own immunity, with a military government providing the cover and an interior minister…
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