Rodriguez Gacha: The Fall of El Mexicano
In the late nineteen eighties Colombia becomes the center of a cocaine trade generating an estimated four billion dollars a year in export revenue, with armed men holding territory the state cannot enter. Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, known as El Mexicano for the Mexican gunmen he pays from his own accounts, controls several tonnes of cocaine a year and a ranch empire stretching across four departments. His personal fortune reaches several billion dollars while local officials, police commanders and military officers stay on his payroll. Colonel Waldemar Franklin Quintero of the Colombian…
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