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Frank Sinatra & The Cartel 

 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s son has sensationally claimed singer Frank Sinatra was his dad’s business partner.

Sebastian Marroquín described the legendary crooner as a ‘better cocaine dealer than singer’ in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper.

He said the American artist was one of his father’s partners in Miami.

Asked how he could be so sure of the truth of his extraordinary claims, Marroquin told respected newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo: ‘There are more singers than you can imagine that began their careers thanks to the sponsorship of drug traffickers.

‘There are no receipts, just words. I know because I was very close to my father and he and his partners always spoke about that.’

He added: ‘I can tell you that Sinatra was a better cocaine dealer than a singer. He was one of the partners of my father in Miami.
‘Drugs cartels only exist below Mexico’s border with the United States.

‘Where is the Miami cartel? Or the New York cartel? Who is the head of the Chicago or Los Angeles cartels?
‘Each kilo of cocaine that enters the United States is converted into eight with the help of poison. 

There’s a great amount of hypocrisy when it comes to drugs.’

  

Frank Sinatra’s links to the Mafia have been well-publicised, although former 007 Roger Moore insisted last year the ties were exaggerated and were rumours based on unknown visitors having their picture taken with the singer in his dressing room.

A new Woody Allen biography published this week in the States claimed Sinatra asked the Mafia to murder the film director as revenge for betraying his ex-wife Mia Farrow.

Pablo Escobar’s brother revealed in his 2009 book about the drugs trafficker that they once dined with Frank Sinatra ‘on petty cash’ during a holiday in Las Vegas.

Roberto Escobar said the dinner took place in a private room at Caesars Palace and afterwards they took a scenic helicopter tour together.

But he claimed in the book – ‘The Accountant’s Story’ – that the American friend who introduced them told Sinatra the Escobars were real estate developers.

The meeting took place before Pablo, who at the height of his career supplied about eighty per cent of the cocaine smuggled into the US, became the name he is today.

‘It was an honour for us,’ Roberto said in the book.

‘When I met him I actually had goose bumps, but I had to be cool to maintain my position.

‘During dinner Pablo told Sinatra that we were going to make a helicopter tour the next day and Sinatra asked to come with us.

‘The next day Frank Sinatra became our guide as we spent about an hour and a half flying all over the area.

‘Supposedly, after Pablo became infamous our friend who had arranged this got a phone call from Sinatra.

‘I’ve been watching TV’, he said. ‘Is that Pablo Escobar the guy we met in Las Vegas?’

‘I don’t know what happened after that, but I guess Sinatra said very firmly that he didn’t want to be associated with Pablo. And until now he never has.’

Sebastian Marroquin is one of Pablo Escobar’s two children.

The drugs lord died in a shootout on a rooftop in the Colombian city of Medellin after making a phone call to his son which enabled the authorities to track his location.

Sebastian, who was 17 at the time, fled with his mum and sister to Mozambique before emigrating to Argentina where they are now based.

He apologized to the sons of victims his late father ordered assassinated during a 2009 Argentine TV documentary.

He also wrote a best-selling book called ‘Pablo Escobar: My Father’ published last year using his birth name Juan Pablo Escobar instead of the alias he adopted before going on to study architecture.

The 38-year-old maintains his dad was not killed by police as Colombian authorities say, but committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
  

*This article was originally posted on The Daily Mail. 

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Dope Flix: Pablo Escobar & Son

  
1980’s– Notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar and his son in front of the White House Washington. 



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Female Cartel Trafficker Arrested In Mexico 

 

Ana Marie Hernandez, known as “La Muneca,” or the doll, was arrested in Chihuahua after being a United States fugitive.

 

LMTonline — A high-level drug trafficking fugitive known for her luxurious lifestyle and extensive ties to senior Mexican cartel leaders was recently captured by Mexican authorities and is expected to be extradited to the United States.

Ana Marie Hernandez, known as “La Muñeca,” or the doll, was arrested in Chihuahua after on the run from American and El Paso authorities for about two years, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office announced this week.

Hernandez, 38, fled Texas after pleading guilty to drug smuggling and bribery charges in 2013 in El Paso. According to a federal criminal complaint, Hernandez and her ex-husband Daniel Ledezma smuggled thousands of kilograms of cocaine through an El Paso border crossing where he worked.

The drugs, which were transported through lanes being inspected by Ledezma, were distributed to several cities throughout the U.S. including Chicago, St. Louis and Panama City, Florida, the complaint said.

Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA, said Hernandez, who operated in Texas and Mexican border cities, used her good looks and wit to smuggle drugs and gain access to senior cartel members in the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels.

“Beautiful women are highly coveted by the cartel leaders, they bring them into the fold and a lot of times have relationships with them,” Vigil said in an interview with mySA.com. “(The cartels) use them because they have the ability to infiltrate the United States and develop ties and distribution tentacles here.”

“La Muñeca” began working with the Juarez Cartel, but became a large-scale trafficker for the Sinaloa Cartel, led by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, after the Juarez Cartel’s demise, said Vigil, who worked in Mexico tracking drug cartel activity for 13 years.

Vigil said he believes Hernandez has some sort of relationship with “El Chapo,” based on her affiliation with the Sinaloa Cartel and the drug lord’s affinity for attractive women.
“One thing we know about Chapo Guzman is his love of beautiful women,” he said.

However, “La Muñeca’s” capture could be an indirect result of Guzmán escape.

Vigil said Mexico has opened the “flood gates” on extraditions to the U.S. as a way to compensate following Guzman’s escape from a maximum security prison earlier this year.

“The Mexican government is using these extraditions to keep pressure of their back until they are able to capture ‘El Chapo’,” he said. “(His escape) was a significant embarrassment.”

Earlier this month, 13 mid-to-high ranking cartel members were extradited to the U.S., including Laredo native Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as “La Barbie.”

Vigil said several other leaders will be extradited soon, including Omar Treviño Morales, the leader of the Zetas Cartel.

“La Muñeca” is known for her lavish lifestyle, according to the federal complaint.

“Hernandez does not have a job, however, (she) is regularly observed … spending large amounts of money,” the complaint said.

Hernandez spent thousands of dollars on clothing and shoes during a 2008 four-day trip to Las Vegas. She paid $30,000 cash for a pool at her home in El Paso, the documents said.

“Her capture by Mexican authorities shows that not even a beautiful drug trafficker like ‘La Muñeca’ is above the rule of law,” Vigil said.