Osiel Cardenas: The Friend Killer's Escape
In the late nineteen nineties, on the flat border corridor between Tamaulipas and Texas, the Gulf Cartel runs cocaine and marijuana through a landscape of diesel heat, bribed checkpoints and negotiable inspectors. Osiel Cardenas Guillen, known publicly as El Mata Amigos, the Friend Killer, rises to command that corridor by removing the men closest to him before they can move against him. He then does what no trafficker in the record had done before, recruiting deserters from Mexico's elite airborne unit to build a private army that outguns most state police. DEA agents working out of…
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