Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show.

I'm the announcer, and I've known Eric since he was a big nobody.

In fact, I'm one of the people he stepped on as he climbed the ladder of success.

And now my former friend, Eric Mataxis.

So on this program, we often do a little thing we like to call Miracle Mondays, not just because it's Mondays, but because we believe in actual miracles.

Sometimes it's just part of somebody's life, sometimes it's somebody's whole life story.

Today, it's the ladder.

I have the privilege

of having right now on the program Herman Mendoza, whose story is practically unbelievable. He has

a bookout called Shifting Shadows. He was a major, major figure in the drug world. He was a drug lord, as they say. And by the grace of God,

he ain't a drug lord anymore. Herman Mendoza, welcome to this program. Thank you for having me,

Eric. I want to know what period are we talking about that you were working, you know,

at the top of this criminal, uh, business?

Uh, it was in the late 80s, but beginning in the early 90s when I was engaged fully, uh,

exposed and distributing, uh, cocaine across the eastern seaboard, uhoard here in the United States of America.

And it was during that time when I was fully engaged in this operation.

When you say across the eastern seaboard, so you are not a local drug lord.

You're talking about this is very high-level stuff.

It's very high-level stuff and very sophisticated stuff.

So basically, the drugs was coming in from different parts of the borders of America and through the sea.

And then we will have people in place in Miami to distribute the narcotics to New York and other parts of the northeast part of our country.

I want to find out how you got into this whole thing.

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