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The King of Miami Dr. Jorge Valdes Tells All - Behind NETFLIX Series 'Cocaine Cowboys'

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Bet-David sits down with Jorge Valdez. Dr. Jorge L. Valdes is a bilingual (English and Spanish speaking) Cuban-American Ex-Narco, Ex-Con, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and author.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/T7E0EA1mOc4

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0:00.0

Only you can break your word, and the day you do, you're nobody.

0:04.1

And that's what made me at the Asia-23 lane, the flow of a pandemic in jail been tortured to death,

0:09.1

where I've bled for five years thereafter, because I was not going to break my word.

0:12.8

No, we're drug dealers. They just told you. I mean, just like that, we're drug dealers.

0:17.2

We said, okay, you will think I'd be shocked, and I should have been. But immediately,

0:21.6

my mindset was, well, you're an accountant. You know, that's what you were trained to come

0:26.0

money. We are not defined by our past. There is hope. There is faith. Well, there is a God

0:32.0

that forgives. You'll pay the consequences of our choices, but you can be different.

0:39.2

So if you've seen the Netflix special cocaine cowboys, my guess today is Dr. Jorge Valdez,

0:44.9

who from 1977 to 1980 was a number one cocaine salesman in the world. 95% of the cocaine that

0:52.1

was sold to Miami was him. But he's got an interesting background. Cuban immigrant hooks up with

0:57.2

Pablo Escobar, who was going to school. He was going to be somebody had a big GPA went to university

1:02.2

Miami. Then he starts selling drugs, makes a million to three million a year. In 1990, 60 million

1:08.1

dollars, he lost confiscated to get away from the life. And that leads to later on him becoming a

1:13.1

doctor, PhD, very, very interesting story with that being said. Dr. Valdez, thank you so much for

1:20.0

being a guest tonight. Thank you. It's my pleasure. And I got a compliment on your suit.

1:23.1

Thank you. You look amazing. You look very good. I've seen you. I've been following you for a

1:26.8

while. So I saw your suit and I just want to dress appropriately. Well, you took it to a different

1:31.8

level. I mean, I'm here. My assistant Caroline said, there's a man Jorge Valdez, who looks

1:38.0

very sharp in the office today. That's what I was expecting. Anyways, okay. So before we go

1:43.2

through this stuff, there's a lot of different things I want to know. But for the audience that

1:47.2

doesn't know your story, why don't we start from the beginning? And then we'll go into some

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