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Anti-Mafia Investigations Directorate (DIA), Italian, 305

Antuna García, Bladimir, 367–70

Antwerp, 291

Arbat International, 268, 277–78

Areiza, Marco Aurelio, 153–54

Arellano Félix brothers, 30

Arigon Ltd., 268, 277–78

Arizona, 53, 290

arms trafficking, 222, 272, 273, 282, 283

Army Co-op, 272

Arzola, Martín (El 53), 67

Arzú, Álvaro, 83

Aspromonte, Italy, 193, 210, 215, 341

Assange, Julian, 287

Associated Press (AP), 46, 54

Association of Middle Magdalena Ranchers and Farmers (ACDEGAM), 138

Atrium Hotel, 270

Aulla, Italy, 302

Australia, 179, 182, 193–95

Autodefensas Campesinas de Córdoba y Urabá (Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá), 141–42, 152

Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia) (AUC), 152–59, 160–66, 174, 176, 184–88, 191–92

Averin, Viktor, 268, 276–77

Averin, Ljudmila, 276–77

Avesani, Massimiliano (the Prince), 234, 237, 239, 240

Ávila Beltrán, Sandra (la Reina; Queen of the Pacific), 362–66

Avilés Pérez, Pedro, 39

Awainatt, Mohamed Ould, 321

Ayala, Jorge (Riverito), 362

Ayala, Ramón, 49

Babushka restaurant, 280

Baldomero Medina Garza, Hugo, 59

Balearic Isles, 299

bananas, 309, 310, 329, 335

Banca di credito cooperativo di Ospedaletto, 251–52

Banca di Roma, 251–52

Banco de los Trabajadores, 129

Banda della Magliana, 225–26, 227

Banev, Evelin, 298

Bank of America, 252–53

Bank of New York, 250–52, 271

Barba (Beard) (drug trafficker), 230

Barbieri, Vincenzo (U Ragioniere), 175–76, 177, 182–83, 192, 194–96, 198, 199, 200

Barcelona, 331

Barranquilla, Colombia, 179, 233

Barrón Hernández, Eliseo, 369

“bases,” 115–16, 119

Basques, 184

basuco coke, 112

BBC, 284, 286

Beirut, Lebanon, 254–55

Belgium, 291, 333–34

Bellavia (ship), 334

Bellocco family, 202–3 298

Beltrán Leyva, Alfredo (El Mochomo), 47–48

Beltrán Leyva, Arturo (El Barbas), 42, 48–49

Beltrán Leyva, Héctor (El H), 50

Beltrán Leyva family, 42, 49–51

Benex Worldwide, 250–52

Bergamo, Italy, 219

Berlin, Peter, 250–52

Berlin Wall, 270, 276

Berlusconi, Silvio, 170

Bernal, Alejandro, 158

Betancourt, Ingrid, 155

Bianchi brothers, 136–37

Birbragher, Fernando, 280

Black and White Clubs, 268–69, 275–76, 277

“black poison,” 38

Blair, Tony, 132

Blanco, Griselda (Godmother; Queen of Cocaine; Black Widow), 53, 357–62

Blaus VII (sailboat), 297–98, 299

Bloque Catatumbo, 152–54

Bogotá, 128, 137, 154, 173–74, 188, 191, 230, 238

Bolívar Moreno, Gustavo, 135

Bologna, Italy, 196, 197, 199

Bosnia-Herzegovina, 154

Boss (sniffer dog), 345

“bourgeois pushers,” 115–17, 119, 123–24, 210–11, 297

Boyaco (drug trafficker), 189

Braun, Michael, 63

Bravo, Alberto, 358–59

Brazil, 180, 202, 291, 307, 322, 332, 333, 334

Brembate di Sopra, Italy, 213, 237

Brežnev, Leonid, 265

Brindisi, Italy, 226

Brownsville, Tex., 57, 58

Bruzzese, Joseph, 203

Bubo Na Tchuto, José Américo, 316

Budapest, 269–70, 271, 272, 278

Buenrostro Quiroz, Mario, 62

Bumbaca, Francesco, 218, 238

Bush, George W., 156, 242

Butterfly (cocaine addict), 121–22

Buzos, 369

Caacupe-mí, Paraguay, 334

Calabria, Italy, 131, 164, 168–206, 210, 213–14, 217, 229, 233, 239, 247, 302, 330, 335, 341

Cala Palma (ship), 327

Calderón, Felipe, 62, 64, 65, 70, 71, 95

Calexico, Calif., 33–34

Cali cartel, 20–21, 33, 129, 130, 131, 132, 142, 151, 152, 170, 176, 188, 189, 223, 256, 273, 280, 295

Camarena Salazar, Enrique (Kiki), 19–34

Camarena, Geneva (Mika), 24, 26

Camberos Rivera, Francisco (El Chito), 41

Camorra, 170, 217, 231, 264, 296–97, 339, 344, 346

campesinos (peasants), 25, 62, 130, 137, 156

Canada, 194, 213–14, 276–77

Canary Islands, 180

Cancún, Mexico, 66–67, 190, 280

Cape Verde, 321

capitalism, 126, 128, 129–32, 241–42, 255–57, 377

Capone, Al, 259, 286

Carabinieri, 178, 187, 188, 191, 202, 219, 238, 298, 329, 331, 333, 335–36, 344, 346

Caracas, Venezuela, 179, 220, 330

Caradec’h, Jean-Michel, 350

Caratelli, Ovidio, 346

car bombs, 46, 128, 144, 272, 273, 368

Cárdenas Guillén, Antonio Ezequiel (Tony Tormenta), 60–61

Cárdenas Guillén, Homero (El Majadero), 61

Cárdenas Guillén, Osiel (El Mata Amigos; Friend Killer), 57–61, 91–92, 93, 94, 97, 185, 296

Caribbean islands, 74, 114, 226, 283, 291, 293, 297, 298, 335

Caro Quintero, Miguel, 30

Caro Quintero, Rafael, 20, 22, 23–24, 27, 31–32, 39

Carrà, Raffaella, 239

Carrillo Fuentes, Amado (El Señor de los Cielos; Lord of the Skies), 43, 44–46, 47, 159

Carrillo Fuentes, Rodolfo, 43

Carrillo Fuentes, Vicente (the Viceroy), 43, 46–47, 60

Carrillo Fuentes family, 30, 43–47, 60

Carrillo Leyva, Vicente, 44

Carrizales, Juan Francisco (El 98), 61

Casablanca, 323–24

casas de cambio (currency exchange agencies), 243–46

Case Celesti neighborhood, 346

Cassa Rurale e Artigiana Bank, 226

Castaño, Carlos, 142–43, 152, 153, 159, 160, 162–63, 189

Castaño, Fidel, 163

Castaño, Vicente, 163, 165

Castaño brothers, 142–43, 152

Castañon, Paulina, 255–57

Castel San Pietro, Italy, 197

Catenacci, Domenico, 222

Cat’s Piss cocaine, 118

Cattelan, Fabio, 298–99

Cattelan, Lucio, 298–99

Cayman Islands, 250, 256

Ceiba speciosa tree, 329

cell phones, 123, 223–24, 228–30, 234–35

Central America, 158–59, 283, 296, 304

Central Office for the Suppression of Illicit Drugs Trafficking, French, 315

Cesano Boscone, Italy, 336

Cessna aircraft, 44, 317, 322

Chalk cocaine, 118

Channel Islands, 277, 278

Chara Bank, 274

Chechens, 261–62

checkerboard logo, 302, 303

Chica Med, 135

Chinese ideograms, 303–4

Cianfa di Cavallo drug market, 340

Ciconte, Nicola, 179, 193–95, 254

Ciola, Pasquale, 222, 226, 236

Ciotti, Luigi, 204

Ciro (sniffer dog), 345

Citibank London, 256

Citibank Mexico, 256

Citibank Switzerland, 256

Cititrust, 256

City of London, 250, 254

Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico, 243

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 30, 43, 44, 46–47, 60, 98, 127, 341

Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, 100

Civil Guard, Spanish, 331

Civitavecchia, Italy, 345

“clean loads,” 306, 307

Clinton, Bill, 132, 154

Coca-Cola, 263–64, 311

cocaine:

addiction to, 117–22, 158

air transport of, 190–91, 198, 202, 218, 243–45, 281–82, 290, 294, 308, 312–25, 330, 345, 346, 359

arrests and imprisonment for, 62, 115–16, 165, 213, 216, 219–22, 226–27, 236, 237–40, 255–57

as asset, 73–77, 185–86

auto shipments of, 289–90, 292–93, 302

banks used for, 222–26, 241, 247–52

blocks of, 230–31, 301–4, 331, 334

brain function and, 35–36, 113–14, 120

capital for, 210–11, 220, 247–57

capsules of, 313–25

cartels for, 30–33, 38, 75–77, 125–27, 273, 294, 302; see also specific cartels

coded transactions in, 218, 228–29, 234–35

crack, 113, 120

cut or stepped, 118–19, 182, 230–31

dealers for, 112–24

distribution of, 22, 30–33, 58, 115–16, 119, 120