What is Reddit's opinion of Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family?

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Thanks, I'll pick it up just for the shocking accounts.

If you're interested in reading more about this stuff I'd highly recommend Charles Bowden. Particularly <em>Down By the River</em>

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/interviews/calderoni.html Some of the feds swear that he is straight and has not committed any crimes. Hector Berrellez says that Calderoni admitted providing security for Contra shipments in the 1980's. He also told Berrellez that he would be transferred from his assignment in Mexico to Washington DC 2 months before it happened, Calderoni was an informant for Berrellez, He told him "your own government killed Camarena" (Fellow agent Kiki Camarena,)

Calderoni admitted wire tapping a phone call between Berrellez and the head of Interpol in mexico and then planting a kilo of drugs in the man's desk. The head of Interpol was later jailed on the phony drug charge.

Calderoni's personal fortune was over a billion dollars and the feds let Calderoni bring $400 million in cash into the USA when he became a informant

Bowden describes Calderoni as a highly intelligent, sophisticated, cultured man who spoke French and other languages fluently. He was not like the other police or cartel criminals.

https://www.gq.com/story/lord-of-the-drug-ring

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23704/pariah-gary-webb-0998/

This is another great essay about Amado Carrillo Fuentes by Charles Bowden "The killer across the river" https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/e2r2pl/amado\_carrillo\_fuentes\_the\_killer\_across\_the/

Bowden also wrote Down by the river, a great book- DEA agent Phil Jordan said they confiscated 25million of some guy at the airport and the DOJ called him and said let the guy go and give his money back.

https://www.amazon.com/Down-River-Drugs-Murder-Family/dp/0743244575

There is mention of Calderoni and Hector Berrellez in this article. Calderoni tells the DEA they are screwed if they continue to pursue operation Leyenda (Camarena murder case) because they (U.S. govt) will f---- you over"

https://www.laweekly.com/how-a-dogged-l-a-dea-agent-unraveled-the-cias-alleged-role-in-the-murder-of-kiki-camarena/

Bowden's final essay in Nov 2014 is about Calderoni, in part: https://medium.com/matter/blood-on-the-corn-52ac13f7e643

300 sounds pretty wrong to me. Just looking on Wikipedia I see that Juarez had over 300 murder of young women alone in 2005.

Charles Bowden's written a couple of excellent books on the subject like Down by the River