Life is full of many surprises, personalities, and people. Intrepid people who avoid death on many occasions and others who seek it and live thanks to the adrenaline of having death and danger so close to them that for some, it is what brings them life, the only way they are satisfied.
Drug trafficking is one of these jobs, if it can be called like that, in which people get involved out of necessity, out of hunger, out of the desire for more, out of adrenaline, it is all illegal commercial activity of large amounts of toxic drugs. Raul Zambrano more than anyone in this world can talk about this, was worse than any other drug trafficker you can think of at this moment, worse than Escobar and El Chapo together, he was Latino of course, but it was never known where exactly, this man like everyone else, he had to murder, rape, steal, torture to get to where he got, to be the boss and the only one that no one could disrespect, either out of admiration, out of respect or more than all out of fear that if you did until your dog could wake up chopped into pieces.
I clarify that if it exists or if there is still someone alive, people who greatly admired Mr. Zambrano, because he, like many, hid behind the façade of being a good citizen, donating millions and millions of pesos to foundations, aid programs and any other activity. that would make him look good in front of the whole society.
Camila Roncallo and Mat Lombardi, a Genoa and a Tuscan, a couple of journalists who own their own newspaper, which was focused on UNODC, United Nations of Drugs and Crime, everything that had to do with great criminals and great atrocities that were committed the country was among the best newspapers in Colombia and even many international companies dedicated to social communication tried to buy them, others to sink them and several to set up a competition, but no one could ever overcome them, until one day they themselves met their end, the desire to want more and more and to be the first they could always with their ethics and professionalism, had signed a pact with the Devil.
Everything that happened and everything that moved in the country already Zambrano knew it or even he himself ordered it to be so, because there was no law that prevented it; well, it did exist; however, it was never efficient or fair enough to take care of it. He had more than half of the politicians, prosecutors, lawyers, and senators in his pocket, so much was his power that anyone with whom he had power, when even mentioned his name, woke up with his boots turned upside down.
Roncallo and Lombardi decided to find a way to communicate with the king of toxic dust or at least that's what they called him in their headlines, Camila was in charge of getting from “lavaperro” to “lavaperro” until reaching the right-hand of Mr Zambrano, El Cucho Fernandez, who was not only his best gunman and who handled the finances, but was also his best friend and the only one who knew what happened to the bodies that disappeared, of which several could be found thanks to this couple.
It was a beautiful, sunny day with a lot of breezes and not at all hot, the leaves of the trees moved abruptly due to the force of the breeze, they were at their house in Valledupar, they had to go to Bogota for the interview with Zambrano but first, they had to meet with Cucho Fernandez, who sent them a plane with all the comforts that existed, they had insisted countless times on going on a commercial flight, but you let them take care of their transportation to part of the many requirements that were imposed on them to receive the meeting.
Now one would think why that meeting was so urgent and necessary, easy, it was never for that purpose, it was a trap for both and the first thing was to know the security rings and find the famous "dark catacombs" that were the places where supposedly they had hundreds of corpses buried, which for any judge would be irrefutable proof to send him with a minimum of two life sentences to the worst prison that existed, the Nueva Granada Prison Boarding School, it is called that because there were only the worst criminals in the country, those who could be considered crazy and where several even had illnesses related to psychopaths and poor socio-affective behavior, so they were the worst of the worst.
The couple was doing their job well, they met up to five security rings that protected the main house of Zambrano, where his family lived, his two daughters and his mother, of the wife and mother of the daughter nothing, was ever known, the rumours said that he never got married and his daughters belonged to some prostitutes… Camila and Mat were in front of Cucho Fernandez who ordered to search them, Mat accepted but Camila did not and demanded them to find him a woman because he would not allow himself to be touched by any of his men, so they put a gun to her head, she wouldn't leave it and they never looked for her, she had a microphone in her pants and she was armed.
They managed to enter Zambrano's house without Camila being searched, they had goosebumps, Zambrano was a very tall, thin guy, with a big nose, he dressed very extravagantly, his house was very luxurious, you could tell that the owner was a millionaire, it had a rustic style full of statues from the entrance next to a big red water fountain, with a bloody countenance, there were a lot of animal heads hanging everywhere, it was obvious that Zambrano was a fan of the animal house of all type, bulls, tigers, lions and there were even pigs. It was time to start the interview, all very professional and objective.
One hour after the interview…
The shooting began, the police and the national army began, suddenly the DEA appeared on the other side, they were falling one by one from both sides, Camila and Mat were taken away in a van along with Zambrano, Cucho Fernandez had been discharged, and Zambraron along with several "dog washers" had to flee", shortly after in the middle of nowhere, two of the workers tied Mat to their trucks and in front of Camila they tore him in half by force, they could be heard the screaming, the crying and Camila begging for forgiveness, for her life to be spared...
Zambrano seemed like a different person, he was no longer the civilian in the interview who had no problem answering each and every one of the questions honestly, he was already with the devil inside because death or prison was breathing down his neck, Camila and Mat were snitches and they set up the most dangerous man, it was their worst mistake.
Camila, in addition to being traumatized to see how they killed the love of her life in two halves and tortured her, took her to the places where many corpses were, they were apparently old sewers near a cliff, where there were piles and piles of organs, in another place what looked like a river was flooded with fresh bodies and skulls, Camila couldn't take it anymore and decided to jump off the cliff, what she and no one knew is that the microphone was still with her, the team in charge had heard everything, until his bones creak from the fall, before it stopped working.
To be continued…
by Andrea Ochoa Moncada, David Harb Noches,
Juan Camilo Bermúdez Vergara and Sofía González Díaz
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