Pure Narco - Inside The Medellin Drug Cartel

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Luis Navia spent 25 years working as a cocaine trafficker for the deadliest Columbian and Mexican cartels, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel, before his arrest in Venezuela in 2000. And now Luis Navia, with some help from journalist Jesse Fink, has written a book, “Pure Narco,” about his incredible story. Luis and Jesse recount some of the tales from Luis’ 25 years in the drug business from how this rich kid, Georgetown University graduate ever got involved in the drug trade to being with to how he grew his trafficking empire until his arrest. Luis talks about meeting Pablo Escobar, being kidnapped by the cartel, sharing Easter dinner with a cartel assassin, keeping his identity relatively secret, and how law enforcement finally caught him. Luis also details his thoughts about seeing his real-life friends’ stories in the Netflix series, “Narcos,” and what it’s been like for him to adapt to regular, civilian life. “Pure Narco” is available now (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1538155516) wherever you buy books.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to talk is Jericho the pilot thunder and rock and roll.
0:16.6	Wait till you hear the guest I have today actually it's two guests.
0:19.7	You guys already know Jesse Fink, author journalist he was on talk is Jericho a few years ago
0:24.8	talking about the life and death of AC DC's Bond Scott.
0:28.8	Well Jesse is back with a new book pure narco out in paperback this week and get it
0:33.2	Amazon wherever you buy books but Jesse is the subject of his book with him on the show
0:37.5	today.
0:38.5	Luis Navia the cocaine trafficker whose real life story is chronicled in pure narco
0:43.5	is on talk is Jericho to share some of these crazy stories with us.
0:47.4	Luis spent 25 years working as a cocaine trafficker for the deadliest Colombian in
0:52.6	Mexican cartels.
0:54.1	He'll share how he got involved in the drug business, how he built his transportation
0:58.0	and distribution network to serve the cartels and what happened the one time he met Pablo
1:02.9	Escobar face to face.
1:04.4	Luis has been kidnapped by the cartels more than once at Eastern dinner with one of the
1:08.2	cartels assassins and explains what it's like to see his real life friends stories play
1:13.6	out on the Netflix series narcos.
1:16.1	Luis shares details about his own capture and arrest and reveals how he's still alive today.
1:21.5	Unbelievable true story about drugs money and survival.
1:24.6	Luis and Jesse are standing by me before we get to the reminder that Chris Jericho's
1:28.6	rock and resting rager at C for leaf clover is setting March setting cell March 14th.
1:33.6	We had such a blast in the triple whammy.
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