Matta Ballesteros Part 2: Face to Face With the Cocaine Chemist

Real Narcos

NOISER

Drama, History, Fiction, True Crime

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Everyone assumed Matta Ballesteros was just a low-level pusher. But it turns out he’s the shady mastermind funnelling eye-watering quantities of cocaine into the United States. After a long and gruelling pursuit across multiple borders, US agents hatch a plan to snatch Matta off the street. Finally, Mike Vigil of the DEA comes face to face with the man he’s chased halfway across Latin America. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.0	Welcome to Real Narcos.
0:26.0	The series from Noiser Podcasts that takes you undercover with the real agents who hunted down the world's most notorious drug lord.
0:33.0	The drug lord's in this series tend to be larger than life.
0:36.0	The guy in this episode is a little different.
0:39.0	He's a boogie man for the agents on his tail, a faceless, placeless phantom,
0:44.0	flitting seamlessly between jurisdictions, crossing borders, and breaking laws at will,
0:51.0	always tantalizingly out of reach.
0:54.0	The war on drugs is his to win, unless the DEA can hunt him down first.
1:00.0	This is the story of Matabaya Starros, and this is Real Narcos.
1:25.0	It's 1985, and the Drug Enforcement Administration have their work cut out, pursuing the Honduran cocaine trafficking mastermind, Matabaya Starros.
1:37.0	He's wanted in connection with a kidnapped murder of DEA agent Kiki Kamarina.
1:42.0	Matas capture is now a top DEA priority.
1:45.0	Agent Mike Veehill knows he's going to be harder to find than ever.
1:50.0	Informants initially report sightings of the drug kingpin in both Honduras and Spain.
1:54.0	Matabaya Starros was astute enough to know that when Kiki Kamarina was killed,
2:02.0	that we would be coming for him.
2:06.0	And initially he fled into Central America and then into Europe.
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