The global black market in illegal drugs had become a vast, mature industry estimated to generate $400 billion a year (and probably much more), exceeding the combined profits of the underground trade in arms, humans, and blood diamonds. Phase Two began in the first years of the twenty-first century. The most famous and fabulous shot and betrayed one another until nearly all of them were dead or in prison.
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Black-clad Mexican federal police intercepted him in a matter of minutes and locked him in a fetid rent-by-the-hour sex motel until a government helicopter took him back to the prison he had tunneled out of six months earlier.Įl Chapo, taken into custody on January 8, 2016, was one of the last relics of the first phase of the cocaine invasion-call it the Miami Vice era-when cocaine cowboys built their brands by festooning themselves in diamond-encrusted guns and belt buckles and by surrounding themselves with cars, corpses, trucks, SUVs, dealerships, whores, horses, hotels, nightclubs, soccer teams, TV stations, zoos, boats, and more corpses. His idea of keeping a low profile was to steal a fire-engine-red Ford Focus from a grandmother.
On the run from the Mexican marines, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán emerged stinking from a sewer pipe.
When the last cocaine cowboy went down, it wasn’t classy. To understand the significance of Paul LeRoux, the creator of the Innovation Age’s first transnational criminal empire, start at the other end of the evolutionary scale.
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