They looked at me and they're like, with drug dealers.

This is just the front.

That group of gentlemen is the group that later on would become known as the Medelligen Drug Hotel. Suddenly, Mani told me, here's this contact. At 5 o'clock in the morning, he's going to deliver you a big old U-Haul, and that average 600 kilos. Jorge Valdez is the original cocaine cowboy. He was the first Cuban-born drug trafficker

to link with the founding members of the Medellin cartel when they first arrived in Miami back in the

mid-1970s, when Coke was still $60,000 a key wholesale. He began as their accountant and established

the first international banking system for cocaine money laundering,

until eventually he opened his own drug routes and started moving blow by the tons to every

major market in the United States.

Jorge was to cocaine what Ray Kroc was to McDonald's hamburgers.

He didn't invent the product, but he franchised it, made it a brand, and now you can find it

on every street corner.

He wasn't as much a cowboy as

he was a cocaine pioneer. He was living the life of an untouchable drug lord until one day

he'd had enough. Having had a spiritual awakening, Jorge voluntarily walked away from the business,

forfeiting tens of millions of dollars and spending the next decade in federal prison,

where he received a doctorate in theological studies.

Today, he's a successful lecturer, author, and philanthropist, and lives happily and legally in Florida, surrounded by his children and grandchildren.

I just finished his autobiography, Coming Clean, the true story of a cocaine drug lord and his unexpected encounter with God.

I'm telling you guys, it's fantastic.

It is one of the best narco books I've ever read.

You can go get it on Amazon or on Jorge's website right now.

And for a bonus chat with Jorge,

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