Legacy

This tale was told to me by two desposed drug lords who had fled to the French Rivera where they just happened to meet.  They missed having much power over so many, but they had stashed untold millions in Swiss Bank accounts, so they weren’t hurting for the material things in life.  In fact they lived very luxuriously.

They had more than that in common, they had both been deposed by younger ambitious members of their cartels.  They had been cohorts in a scheme of unbelievable dimensions.  Now they were both angry and vengeful over being deposed.  That is why they are telling me all about it, so I can blow the whistle on those who deposed them.

It starts out like this; one Juan Castllio of Columbia contacted one Pedro Juarez of Mexico.  Juan started their conversation by saying that while marijuana was bulky for its value cocaine took up much less room at a much higher value.

Now cocaine had been funneled by Juan through Pedro for sometime, and it along with Pedro’s marijuana would be smuggled into the United States by many means, including under the border tunnels.  Problem was while many millions of dollars worth got through and they got very rich, a lot of it didn’t get through.  It was costly to lose product and replace men to smuggle it.  That, they both agreed on.

Juan’s idea was to take advantage of the fourteen different places where natural gas pipelines crossed into the United States from Mexico.  A million dollars worth of cocaine was no bigger than a sub size volley ball and not very heavy in terms of pounds.

So those size balls of product (cocaine) could easily be sealed in plastic and sent by gas pressure through the pipeline the same way pipeline Pigs were.  In fact, stuffed into the hollow of a Pipe Line Pig.

Now Pig was a nickname for a hollow bullet like projectile that would be loaded into the pipe line at a pumping station and sent through to clean out dirt built up in the pipes, much like cleaning a rifle barrel.

They concluded that was one terrific idea, but would require a huge investment to get it started.  Millions to say the least, but the extra return from more products getting through would be many times more than that.

Now the devil is in the details or so some say, and here are the details.  Fourteen pipelines times two equals twenty eight points, fourteen in Mexico and fourteen in the United States.  Those points would be between normal pumping stations and in an out of the way yet accessible places.  At each of those points the pipeline would have to be cut into using a cold heat electrical cutter as to not cause spark and explosion.

Then part of a Pumping Stations equipment would have to be spliced in, namely the Pig loader/un-loader.  Then men would have to be recruited to act as mules carrying the product by truck to secret dealer terminal points.  Also many large bribes would have to be paid to pipeline employees who walk the line once a year to check for cracks, leaks, or other repairs.  That is so they would forget seeing the additional spliced in equipment.

Well needless to say it took a couple of years to put it altogether, but it worked out quite well, illicit profits soared, even beyond expectations.

This writer could never understand why the need for more and more money, when they hid out in the jungle most of the time not able to enjoy their wealth, go figure.

I could only surmise it was unbridled greed that controlled their efforts beyond anything that would make sense to us most.

Apparently their underlings suffered from the same malady of unbridled greed.  As their awareness became focused on the additional large flow of money, the demand for a larger share became quite intense.

Again unbridled greed said no way will you get a larger share, my idea, my money, shut up and be satisfied with the huge amount I’m already giving you was their reply to that.

The seconds in command and a few on down from there weren’t going to take no for an answer.  So there was a double coup and now the underlings are in charge, till their underlings throw them out, and we all know that’s just a matter of time as greed marches on.

It’s safe to say there will be a big upset in the drug cartels hierarchy in the next few days because just before I wrote this story, I forwarded all the details of the pipeline scheme to the proper Mexican and United States authorities.

The two deposed Drug Lords have had their revenge while inadvertently making two nations very happy with such good information.