Papo Mejia person
also: Mejia, Papo
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Griselda Blancoperson · 8Miamiplace · 8Colombiacountry · 6Operation 40operation · 5Boliviacountry · 5Mike Levinperson · 3Attempted Assassination of Papo Mejiaevent · 2Miguel Perezperson · 2Sonia Atalaperson · 2Stephen Fentaperson · 2
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Griselda Blanco attempted_assassination_of
Papo Mejia book_quoted
“Mejia himself was the target of a Blanco-ordered assassination attempt. They were bitter rivals in the Miami cocaine street wars. Blanco hired a hitman, Miguel Perez. He stabbed Mejia some 10 times with a bayonet blade in broad daylight at …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 29:18
Griselda Blanco ordered_assassination_of
Papo Mejia book_quoted
“We, the DEA undercover team, are then successful in indicting Mejia via an elaborate undercover sting, but he is nowhere to be found. Griselda has her own intelligence system and learns that Papo is landing in Miami from Colombia on Septemb…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 35:50
Miguel Perez attempted_assassination_of
Papo Mejia book_quoted
“Perez catches Mejia after he passes customs in broad daylight and stabs him with the bayonet. He survives, stands trial, and is sentenced to 27 years. Levin retires from the DEA and becomes an expert witness. Years go by and Mejia's lawyer,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 36:17
Griselda Blanco assassinated
Papo Mejia book_quoted
“Levin then describes this in an email. The cocaine cowboy wars in Miami was raging when he began Operation Hun that targeted Papo Mejia, among others, using Sonia Atala as bait. What we learned was that Griselda Blanco had already killed Pa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 35:21
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and that many of its chief architects and key players were top narco-traffickers in Bolivia on the CIA's payroll. The cocaine coup made Bolivia a South American narco-state in the early 1980s, a major supplier of cocaine to the U.S. during …
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The mystery opens a door to the past to obscure history of the drug war that you won't read about in the New York Times. One murder scene that Blanco's fingerprints are all over, most observers agree, is the Dade Land Mall shootout in Miami…
▶ 28:17
And one of the men left dead was the father of a brutal Colombian killer and drug dealer named Papo Mejia. According to Mike Levin, who worked on some of the biggest undercover DEA investigations in the 70s and 80s, both in the U.S. and Sou…
▶ 28:48
But Levin insists due to the CIA intervention and complicity in the drug trade, most of the targets of Operation Hunn walked free. With one exception being Mejia, who had ultimately been convicted of narco-trafficking related crimes and sen…
▶ 29:18
Mejia himself was the target of a Blanco-ordered assassination attempt. They were bitter rivals in the Miami cocaine street wars. Blanco hired a hitman, Miguel Perez. He stabbed Mejia some 10 times with a bayonet blade in broad daylight at …
▶ 29:48
from a flight from Colombia. Unfortunately, he didn't hit any vital organs, so Mejia survived. But the attack allowed DEA, who to that point had lost track of him, to arrest him on charges related to Operation Hunt. The key cooperating sour…
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not the person we were sold, someone else. In the drug business, treachery is right up there with greed and power. And Bolivia's queen of cocaine, Atala, fell victim to those rules. She had grown too powerful in the eyes of the narcos runni…
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had been returned to her. It was also revealed that Sonia was soon to return to Bolivia in the 1980s, still the number one source of the country's cocaine, once again free to reign supreme as queen of the crown of snow. But for Levin, the s…
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by one of Blanco's assassins. He was arrested by DEA due to the case built against him and Operation Hun and ultimately sent to jail because of Levin's casework and testimony. Levin told the author that Mejia is a very vengeful and skilled …
▶ 35:21
Levin then describes this in an email. The cocaine cowboy wars in Miami was raging when he began Operation Hun that targeted Papo Mejia, among others, using Sonia Atala as bait. What we learned was that Griselda Blanco had already killed Pa…
▶ 35:50
We, the DEA undercover team, are then successful in indicting Mejia via an elaborate undercover sting, but he is nowhere to be found. Griselda has her own intelligence system and learns that Papo is landing in Miami from Colombia on Septemb…
▶ 36:17
Perez catches Mejia after he passes customs in broad daylight and stabs him with the bayonet. He survives, stands trial, and is sentenced to 27 years. Levin retires from the DEA and becomes an expert witness. Years go by and Mejia's lawyer,…
▶ 36:47
This is an actual dialogue. Levin, you want me to help you get him out of jail when I'm on his hit list? The attorney, I talked to him. You're no longer at the top of the list. Papo is eventually released from prison in 2000 with no help fr…
▶ 37:21
Is Papo Mejia now working his way down his hit list? According to Levin, I'd like to make this public, at least as a measure of self-defense. At the very least, it should also alert Colombian police to their most likely suspect. The author …