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Luis Navia

Luis Navia, born in Havana in 1955, worked for nearly 25 years as a cocaine trafficker for the deadliest Colombian and Mexican cartels until he was arrested in the multinational takedown Operation Journey in 2000. He was released in 2005 and began a new career in construction. Today he also runs his own consulting business for private clients and liaises with the US Government in matters related to antinarcotics law enforcement. He is the co-author with Jesse Fink of Pure Narco.

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Title:: Pure Narco
Written by:: Jesse Fink; Luis Navia
Read by:: Keith Scott
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 13
Duration:: 15 hours 38 minutes
Published:: September 29 2020
Available Date:: September 29 2020
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9780655693642
Genres:: Non-fiction; Autobiography; Memoirs
Publisher:: Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia

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A life story that reads like something out of a John Grisham or Elmore Leonard tale that it’s remarkable it has remained untold for so long.

‘I was a drug trafficker in the true sense of the word: a pure narco.’ Careers in the cocaine-trafficking business are usually short. It’s not only a dangerous profession, fraught with the possibility of capture and long jail sentences, but it can be deadly if the cartels get to you first. Not for Luis Antonio Navia. For 25 years the Cuban-American smuggled hundreds of tons of white powder for the biggest cartels in Colombia and Mexico, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel. Then an international game of cat-and-mouse culminated in Navia’s 2000 arrest in Venezuela in one of the biggest antinarcotics takedowns of all time, the 12-nation Operation Journey. Spanning decades, continents and featuring a who’s who of the drug trade, Pure Narco is a fast-paced adventure ride into the dark underworld of cocaine trafficking. Navia served his time in jail and is now free to tell his tale. His is the rare perspective of someone who has worked on both sides of that war: as a cocaine trafficker and US Government consultant. This is a redemption story. Luis Navia, the pure narco, has gone full circle.