WEBVTT - New Identity

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<v Speaker 1>They offered me to live for Venezuela. There were good

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<v Speaker 1>relations there, there were people there, so they needed my

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<v Speaker 1>help and hand again, so I did. I went to

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<v Speaker 1>Venezuela and indeed the connections went to the highest levels

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<v Speaker 1>there in Venezuela. Fernando blank Hills s s says that

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<v Speaker 1>his longtime employers in Sinaloa, the executives of a massive

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<v Speaker 1>multinational corporation, the contracts with thousands of people from all

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<v Speaker 1>walks of life, including both elected and appointed, the government

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<v Speaker 1>officials and states across the globe, brought him out of

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<v Speaker 1>his semi retirement in England and sent him to Venezuela

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<v Speaker 1>to oversee airshipping logistics for their company. Blank Hill says

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<v Speaker 1>that his friends in Sinaloa successfully negotiated a lucrative business

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<v Speaker 1>partnership with the Fox administration of Mexico and the javism

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<v Speaker 1>and Station Minezuela to move industrial quantities of cocaine and

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<v Speaker 1>other illicit commodities in Venezuela to Mexico. But before he

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<v Speaker 1>could make his move, however, he'd need a new identity.

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<v Speaker 1>Fernando Blankio Sisna had been compromised after the arrest and

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<v Speaker 1>collaboration of his former business partner and kidnapper Steve so

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<v Speaker 1>Blankio decided to make a trip to Vinda, Can and

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<v Speaker 1>purchase a new identity. I had to plan that gives

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<v Speaker 1>me peace of mind. In this case, I had to

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<v Speaker 1>meet Can. I have good friends there Chavinda. I use

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<v Speaker 1>it as a place of birth, and I produce a

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<v Speaker 1>birth certificate. Well I asked for it, but an authentic one,

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<v Speaker 1>a legally valid document. So I have a mnis Alfaro

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<v Speaker 1>born in Charinda. Blankio refers to Tavinda as a tiny

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<v Speaker 1>little town where the civil registry has not yet been digitized,

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<v Speaker 1>and thus a place where he can oversee that his

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<v Speaker 1>new birth certificate is properly deposited in the original files.

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<v Speaker 1>I think he used the story of rural undocumented migrants

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<v Speaker 1>dying tragically in the US to explain rules, lack of

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<v Speaker 1>living relatives and his parents lack of documentation. I also

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<v Speaker 1>gather an old register to vote and obtain his boting license,

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<v Speaker 1>which is used as an official idea in Mexico. What's

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<v Speaker 1>the story, Well, the story is that he's the son

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<v Speaker 1>of undocommented immigrants who die on the side of the border.

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<v Speaker 1>He becomes an orphan. The little learns, He learns to fly,

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<v Speaker 1>he learns English, he learns everything there is to know

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<v Speaker 1>about aviation. Thank you. Also purchased Roles pilot's license, his

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<v Speaker 1>duly registered bank accounts, and set up his airplane business,

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<v Speaker 1>first thing Lada and later in the coastal resort town

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<v Speaker 1>of Watulco raoul Hi Minnsalfaro then began to make his

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<v Speaker 1>first business trips. Setting up by business, I began to

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<v Speaker 1>take my first trips to Venezuela to build relationships with

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<v Speaker 1>the individuals could being recommended to me. They make my ablutions,

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<v Speaker 1>study the area, the possibilities, and begin my first job.

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<v Speaker 1>He says that he went to meet his Colombian suppliers

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<v Speaker 1>and his Venezuelan business partners, whom he described as the

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<v Speaker 1>national Guard, politicians, et cetera. His job was, he said,

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<v Speaker 1>to check things out, organized and set everything up and

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<v Speaker 1>get to work coordinating two weekly drug flights from mike

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<v Speaker 1>Ata International Airport in Caracas to Toluca International Airport in Mexico.

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<v Speaker 1>The first and you did a new plane. We am

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<v Speaker 1>a link to c which is a plane that has

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<v Speaker 1>the self sufficiency to make the Venezuela Mexico root without layovers.

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<v Speaker 1>A Turbo brown and then they got to work. During

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<v Speaker 1>his interviews with Fernando blank and Sisena, reporter Manuelarius asked

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<v Speaker 1>him point blank, do you consider yourself a pilot or

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<v Speaker 1>a drug trafficker? Blank You responded Plotoolo alas Alasia mentally

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<v Speaker 1>transport vista belopo blansport Vista, which loosely translated me, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>a professional pilot. I leave drug trafficking to the government fallacies.

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<v Speaker 1>I am a cargo shipper, That's what I am. A

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<v Speaker 1>cargo pilot. Man. You took Blankio's adam and self identification

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<v Speaker 1>here as a transportista or cargo pilot as the title

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<v Speaker 1>of the podcast that he and that the Diva produced,

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<v Speaker 1>and there really is no doubt that Fernando blank Insig

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<v Speaker 1>is in fact a transportista, a professional cargo pilot with

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<v Speaker 1>decades of experience lying both lissit and illicit cargo. That said,

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<v Speaker 1>Blankio wasn't just a pilot. During the next part of

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<v Speaker 1>his story, In fact, blenk You himself supplies the testimony

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<v Speaker 1>to his participation in what we might call his side hustles.

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<v Speaker 1>My name somehow is still John Gibbler in this in

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<v Speaker 1>a sense is Transportista episode eight Traffic. Once he was

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<v Speaker 1>set up with a new plane, blank you, acting as Raoul,

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<v Speaker 1>him and Selfaro started dabbling in both drug trafficking and

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<v Speaker 1>human smuggling in Venezuela to Mexico. With that plane, I

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<v Speaker 1>start to get a little mischievous, so to say the

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<v Speaker 1>sparking Chinese people. I would get paid twelve thousand dollars

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<v Speaker 1>per handing, and I would pay, if my memory serves me, well,

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<v Speaker 1>four thousand per heading with everything fixed on the Mexican airport.

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<v Speaker 1>He paid another one thousand five per person two authorities

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<v Speaker 1>at the Venezuelan airport and thus, but not exactly precise math,

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<v Speaker 1>he said, if I handless to get out, so at

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<v Speaker 1>six thousand dollars of net profit were left for me,

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<v Speaker 1>You've toast me six thousand and I kept six thousand.

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<v Speaker 1>So it was a providable business. Right If link you

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<v Speaker 1>paid twelve tho dollars per migrant, justify them from Venezuela

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<v Speaker 1>to Mexico. Imagine what each person would have had to

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<v Speaker 1>pay for their entire trip. This is, of course, assuming

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<v Speaker 1>that these were in fact undocumented migrants and not victims

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<v Speaker 1>of human trafficking, but that wasn't all that link you

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<v Speaker 1>took on those flights, and the police knows. I would

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<v Speaker 1>staff two hundred killos of drugs, which I discretely loaded,

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<v Speaker 1>so to say, and when I arrived said to him Coom,

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<v Speaker 1>I would end my international flight plan. They were happy

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<v Speaker 1>with the undercommented immigrant business, and I would embark on

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<v Speaker 1>a domestic flight from Cancuntaha to my hangers and calmly

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<v Speaker 1>unload my two hundred kills which was extremely providable. Thank

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<v Speaker 1>You says here that the two kilos were his. They,

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<v Speaker 1>along with the human smuggling activities, were side hustles, it seems,

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<v Speaker 1>and thus, in addition to being a transportista, it seems

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<v Speaker 1>he was also a bit of a traffic county. According

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<v Speaker 1>to his own telling, he was able to keep this

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<v Speaker 1>up and profit handsomely for some three years, from two

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<v Speaker 1>thousand three to two thousand six. Thank You described this

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<v Speaker 1>time wistfully. By that time in Venezuela, I had control,

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<v Speaker 1>so to say, with successfully completed severnal will do as

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<v Speaker 1>in the lead. Yet I have both three of them

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<v Speaker 1>at the time, even a Leerd threty six, the most

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<v Speaker 1>capable one, which I used as a personal plane. I

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<v Speaker 1>would come down with our own money stuffed up to

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<v Speaker 1>ten million dollars in a secret compartment. The National Guard

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<v Speaker 1>was our personal guard. We had all the comforts and

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<v Speaker 1>conveniences we had the world other feet. We were working

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<v Speaker 1>more than ever with unexpected conveniences in every sense of

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<v Speaker 1>the world, both in Mexico and in Venezuela. We had

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<v Speaker 1>projects in Nicaragua, business in Panama, our company in El Salvador,

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<v Speaker 1>we were expanding. Those were at the best moments in

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<v Speaker 1>their transport. For what he means, because he was the businessman,

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<v Speaker 1>is final the throes of such fond nostalgia. Here, once

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<v Speaker 1>again he refers to his relationships with women as if

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<v Speaker 1>they were just one more luxury commodity available to him

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<v Speaker 1>through his money and power. He says that after living

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<v Speaker 1>in England with his wife, when he returned to his

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<v Speaker 1>drug trafficking activities in Minezuela, inherent to them, he said,

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<v Speaker 1>quote are the ladies in the quote. He then proceeds

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<v Speaker 1>to brag about how literally quote barbarous end quote it

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<v Speaker 1>was to be quote in the thick of so many

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<v Speaker 1>Venezuelan and so many Colombian women in the quote. Here's

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<v Speaker 1>what he said. Ms. Raina that is a graphico was

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<v Speaker 1>in the area bush the Columbiana I will seeks see,

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<v Speaker 1>visited the Manawa. I include this year because I think

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<v Speaker 1>it is essential to notice how a lifelong mid level

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<v Speaker 1>male participant in the business described so proudly systematic exploitation

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<v Speaker 1>of women as an inherent feature of the global drug

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<v Speaker 1>trafficking and drug war industries. Blinkio describes his happy memories

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<v Speaker 1>of driving around Caracas in a luxury BMW with the

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<v Speaker 1>Venezuela National Guard as his personal security detail, sporting collector's

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<v Speaker 1>edition jeweled watches, and he says quote being with so

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<v Speaker 1>many women. In the quote, he brags about being with

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<v Speaker 1>Miss Venezuela and Miss Germany, all his wife and child

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<v Speaker 1>wait for him in England. Miss Germany in fact plays

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<v Speaker 1>a part and how he tells the story of the

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<v Speaker 1>infamous Cocaine one I King of the World and a

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<v Speaker 1>huge sucker. Fun was in the process of buying a

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<v Speaker 1>Falcon fifty to flight didically to Germany and enjoy the

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<v Speaker 1>World Cup with my friends. A Falcon fifty capable of

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<v Speaker 1>crossing the Atlantic on direct flights was then valued at

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<v Speaker 1>around fifteen million dollars blank, he says with business booming

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<v Speaker 1>and feeling himself to be king of the world. Blink,

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<v Speaker 1>you wanted to take a vacation, having a German girlfriend

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<v Speaker 1>and miss Germany and the World Cup just around the corner.

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<v Speaker 1>I decided to see his operagons starting February two thousand

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<v Speaker 1>and six so that nothing could get in the way

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<v Speaker 1>of my World Cup dream. So, in his own telling,

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<v Speaker 1>blink he was getting everything ready to go on vacation

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<v Speaker 1>in Germany for the two thousand six World Couple. Then

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<v Speaker 1>one of his Colombian business partners, he says, started pasting

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<v Speaker 1>him to make one more little trip for closing a show.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the partners, Frank Negro col call me Chuki

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<v Speaker 1>or insisted on doing abuilta. We have merchandise lying around ready,

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<v Speaker 1>little Chuki U Luise Franco Candello, and Blaki refers to

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<v Speaker 1>as El Negro Francs, a Colombian drive trafficker with whom

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<v Speaker 1>Blas he says he worked during his self described golden

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<v Speaker 1>years in Venezuela, that he was now in prison in

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<v Speaker 1>the United States. Blinkio says that that you kept after him,

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<v Speaker 1>so he keeps his assisting on talks me into it,

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<v Speaker 1>and I decided to send that plane to go on

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<v Speaker 1>with high tons. That plane, of course, is the DC

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<v Speaker 1>nine busted and Campechy the worst mistake in my life

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<v Speaker 1>not being faithful to my plans to the first choice,

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<v Speaker 1>that was not doing anything until after the World Cup,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's how we all ended up in the worst

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<v Speaker 1>catastrophe in the history of my arial operations Next Time.

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