Pure Narco - Inside The Medellin Drug Cartel

Published: Nov. 10, 2021, 7 a.m.

Luis Navia spent 25 years working as a cocaine trafficker for the deadliest Columbian and Mexican cartels, including Pablo Escobar\u2019s Medellin Cartel, before his arrest in Venezuela in 2000.\xa0And now Luis Navia, with some help from journalist Jesse Fink, has written a book, \u201cPure Narco,\u201d about his incredible story.\xa0Luis and Jesse recount some of the tales from Luis\u2019 25 years in the drug business from how this rich kid, Georgetown University graduate ever got involved in the drug trade to being with to how he grew his trafficking empire until his arrest. Luis talks about meeting Pablo Escobar, being kidnapped by the cartel, sharing Easter dinner with a cartel assassin, keeping his identity relatively secret, and how law enforcement finally caught him. Luis also details his thoughts about seeing his real-life friends\u2019 stories in the Netflix series, \u201cNarcos,\u201d and what it\u2019s been like for him to adapt to regular, civilian life.\xa0\n\u201cPure Narco\u201d is available now (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1538155516) wherever you buy books.