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Welcome to the Eric Matax's 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 Matax's.

Hey folks, welcome to the program. This is the Eric Matax's show. I just happened to be Eric Matax's. I consider that an amazing coincidence.

Ignore what Todd Wilkerson just said always because he's just he's the best we could get on short notice in terms of you know, announcers. He's a friend. I thought I'd help him out. But usually my guests make up for our

comments, Alex. In other ways today. I've got a humdinger folks. I'm speaking to the author of a book, the book is called Narco Mind Set.

And the subtitle is the life principles that a cocaine drug lord learned on his journey to find meaning in his life. The former cocaine drug lord is my guest Jorge Valdez. Welcome.

Thank you, Eric. It's really a pleasure to be in the show with you. It's it's my pleasure to have you. You have an amazing story. And one of the things I want to do on this program is I want to get stories like yours out because people do not know how lives, how dramatically lives can be changed by the God who loves us. And I say this particularly for people maybe who don't believe in God or don't know. Listen to this story folks. Listen to these stories because it gives you

a different perspective. So Jorge, the bottom line, I guess, is that at age 21, which is some years ago, you were a drug lord and a millionaire playboy. So obviously you are not that now your life has changed dramatically. But what I like to do is go to the beginning of how you got into that lifestyle. You were working with the Medellin cartel. Am I right? Yeah.

And I was part of the group that was the original group that eventually became the Medellin cartel. And you know, Eric. On the ground level. Yeah, that's where the money is. Yeah. And it's amazing because when I wrote a book mindset, I did not realize what was going to be happening six, seven, eight months as it is today.

And look at all this thing that's going on. And it's all about mindset, right? I thought it was not what you look at the world through what lens do you see the world. And you know, I came from Cuba, very religious mom. Then one her son to grow up in a communist country at the age of 10. We're very wealthy. My parents were among the 10 wealthiest person people in Cuba came to Miami. My mother just left behind. And all of a sudden, I'm 10 and 11 of us are sleeping in a one bedroom 750 square feet apartment in Little Havana.

My first decision that I make is God in real. My mom is crazy because we're in school listening to Fidel, right? See, people go about let me get this straight again. You were born where I was born in Havana, Cuba. So you were born there. So you experience what it is to go from being wealthy to communism. You with your own eyes. You saw this.

Exactly. That's why people now, if you think socialism is good, just go try Cuba for a while. And then you can see because my just imagine my father, here's a 40 year old man, extremely wealthy, multi millionaire in the 60s, in the 50s in Cuba. And my mother, you know, my mother, her father was like the second and commended George Washington in Cuba.

So here you got my mother and my father, extremely wealthy people. All of a sudden my mother decides, I'm leaving. I don't care. We leave everything behind. I don't care if we're going to go to the United States. And a girl that was a lady that was born with a super spoon in her mouth and stop working picking tomatoes in the field.

She was a little bit more than a little girl. All because she refused her children to grow up in a communist country. See, we were in school and we would come home. I'm, you know, you know, I'm just a little kid. So I'm coming home and say, Hey, we're learning this in school. Then my mother will say, that's BS. That's not the way it is. God is real. God is the center of a home and communist art.

So what do you do when you were 12? He would take you away from your family. So let's say you lived in New Jersey. He was sent you to live with a family in California. And then he would take the kid from California to live with a family in Chicago. Why? Because when I came home from school and I told my mom what they taught me about communism.

I felt like I could help. But if I went to someone else's house and they tried to correct me and I went back and told the teacher, Hey, the people living, when it says coming into this full of crap, they get automatic 10 years in jail. So that's how for the brainwash people when my mother said, I'll leave with the clothes on my back to a country where she spoke perfectly, my father did not.

My children will not grow up in this communist ideology. My children will grow up in a country where they have freedom to be what God created them to be and to worship God freely.

And she was willing to sacrifice and sacrifice that all to the point that at the airport. So my father originally did not want to leave because my father did not think communism was going to affect them the way it did. So, but my mother from day one, no, she would have nothing with it.

So she filed the papers because you had to file to leave, but because we were very wealthy, we didn't leave till 1966, even though we filed in 1962. So my father said, no, I don't want to go, but eventually decided, but at the airport, they leave my mother behind. They said they made a mistake and she couldn't leave. I think it was a political reason. But my mother grabbed my hand. I'm 10, my brother's nine, my sister five and says, George, take your brother and sister to Miami. I'll see you one day. Now think about it. I didn't think I would ever see my mother again. I'm 10 years old.

I have no idea. My world drastically changed. My mother loved their children so much. She was willing to let them go by themselves to a foreign country like many Cuban parents there with the operation Peter Pan and ended up becoming very successful in America because she would have nothing to do with it. So I laugh when I hear all of this liberal politician talk about socialism and coming. So I'm like, you know, when I was young in college, we all wanted to be a social right car. Mark is beautiful writing. The reality is, and we're going to be able to create a new world of politics.

The reality is a fail system. It takes away initiative creativity. And at the end, all it does is control people. So listen, I got to say, you know, Jorge, you, you and I have at least somewhat similar backgrounds. I mean, my mother grew up in East Germany and my father grew up in Greece. They have this civil war with the communist.

They taught me to despise communism to understand this is evil. It's not just that it doesn't work. It is evil. It crushes people. It brainwashes people. So to see this happening in America today in America today on any level is a staggering thing to me. And I speak about any opportunity. I can't. I didn't think we would go there, but I'm glad as you prepare us to tell us how you became a major drug lord.

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