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The Ghost Army
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The Ghost Army

The Inside Story of the 'Super-Cartel'. A drug trafficking empire worth billions of dollars and the extraordinary investigation that took them down.

It was a silent, criminal corporation.

It was worth tens-of-billions of dollars.

They killed and tortured their opponents, without giving any signals or clues to their existence.

They were the Super-Cartel. One of the world’s largest drug traffickers and, virtually, no one knew anything about them.

On this episode of CrimeWaves, we spoke with Luis Juan Sierra. He is a legend among American law enforcement. A man of vast experience currently serving in Mexico where he leads the anti-money laundering operations for the US State Department. But in the 2000s, he was the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency or DEA agent in charge of overseeing their Colombian operations. He began to hear rumours of a ‘super-cartel’. Our interview began by asking him, how big was this criminal organization…

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