It is often said there is no honor among thieves. That’s doubly true of drug dealers.
Cocaine was no longer hidden alongside products. It was the product.
You want to turn on the tap of the richest country in the world, you’d better be chasing reds.
You threaten a man’s family, and you find out what he’s made of.
When you’ve run out of ways to hide your money, that’s when you give it to the poor.
We can either play politics or we can do the job.
We all need a method. Something to cling to when the s*** around us gets so deep, we might go under. Something to guide us home when we feel we’ve lost our way. If we’re lucky, someone gives us a method and we follow it. If not, we find our own.
The first step to blinding someone is getting them to open their eyes.
One man’s prison is anyone else’s palace.
If you make it to the top, it means you’ve killed your enemies. And sometimes, your partners.
Gaviria could easier cut a hundred deals with the devil before he could cut one with Pablo.
When you kill someone, you lose all your leverage the moment they’re dead. Now, you take someone’s children away from them, you’d be amazed what they’d do to get them back.