En La Boca Del Lobo Series: Not Just Another Telenovela

Rempcl spent weeks interviewing Jorge Salcedo, an engineer who reluctantly allowed himself to be recruited into the Cali cartel as a military and technical adviser. He spent six harrowing years with the Cali mobsters. In the end Salcedo handed himself over to U.S. authorities as Colombian special fo...

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Published inLa Prensa San Diego Vol. 39; no. 40
Main Author Day, Mark R
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Diego, Calif La Prensa América, Inc 21.08.2015
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Summary:Rempcl spent weeks interviewing Jorge Salcedo, an engineer who reluctantly allowed himself to be recruited into the Cali cartel as a military and technical adviser. He spent six harrowing years with the Cali mobsters. In the end Salcedo handed himself over to U.S. authorities as Colombian special forces and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) agents closed in on Cali's head godfather, Manuel Rodriguez Orejuela, and his inner circle. Eventually, the Cali god-fathers exposed him to their ways of dealing with suspected snitches. He was forced to attend the torture and execution of a campesino who had allowed his ranch to be used by [Pablo Escobar]'s henchmen for an attack on Cali cartel members. And later [Ricardo] would witness the grisly slaughter of a group of Panamanians suspected of spying for the D.E.A. At this point, Ricardo narrowly escaped capture from Orejuela's assassins. And just before the DEA helped him flee with his family to Miami, Ricardo saved the life of the accountant Pallomari who got witness protection in the U.S. His treasure trove of documents put the final nails in the coffin of the Cali cartel.
ISSN:0738-9183