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Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Medellin Cartel Kingpin Allied With Pablo Escobar: Jorge Valdes | True Crime Podcast 322

Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Shaun Attwood Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Jorge Valdes was shipping up to 700 kilo loads of coke into America before his alliance with Pablo Escobar.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What follows is my interview with George Valdez, who was charged with being a

0:06.7

co-conspirator in the biggest drug transaction in the history of the United States.

0:17.2

Before he started working with Pablo Escobar, George in the 1970s was already

0:25.4

coordinating shipment of up to 700 kilos of cocaine. Now this is back when it was going from

0:38.8

anywhere from 50 to a hundred thousand dollars. A kilo, so you run the math.

0:45.6

George was captured when a plane went down in Panama and incarcerated and tortured by the guys

0:59.4

working for General Noriega. As well as his extensive knowledge of the Medellin Cartel,

1:08.3

he has a very important message about the war on drugs. While I was communicating with

1:15.0

George to a range of interviews, he admitted that he had already in his possession

1:21.6

my war on drugs series of books in which I claim that governments all over the world

1:32.3

put in prison the small fry to show they're fighting the war on drugs while working with the

1:38.8

big players to make money from illegal drug trafficking. And George was at that level of the

1:47.1

big players and he absolutely confirms what I've been writing about. So this two-hour interview

1:57.2

is not only hard core trafficking stories, it's also got important social criticism about the

2:06.4

corruption and the war on drugs. George could buy politicians, legislators, judges, not just in

2:14.8

central in South America, but also in the states and he believes it is still going on to this day.

2:24.4

He also has an important social message for young people. And you think of someone like you know

2:31.9

the traffickers represented by narcos which George admits narcos is just a fairy tale.

2:38.9

These scary-looking people killing people left and right, you would never imagine

2:46.1

the man you are about to meet was a drug trafficker of the magnitude I have described

2:55.8

biggest drug trafficker ever to be interviewed on this channel, probably coordinated more

3:03.8

transactions than all the others that I've interviewed on this channel combined. So I hope you

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