- We started with nothing but dreams and emerged as kings of an empire the world had never seen.
- Every empire has a foundation, ours was built on loyalty and the hunger to rise above the slums.
- In the business of powder, volume is king. We didn’t just play the game; we owned the board.
- From the streets of Medellín to the corridors of power, every step was a calculated move towards domination.
- Building the cartel wasn’t just about money; it was about creating a legacy that would outlive us all.
- I stepped into politics to change the country that the rich wouldn’t dare to dream of changing.
- They feared me in the Senate as much as in the streets, because I played for the people, not the power.
- My political vision was simple: power to the people, terror to the tyrants.
- I wasn’t just a man of the people; I was their sword against the oligarchs.
- In politics, they said I was a criminal masking as a savior; I say I was the only honest man in a mask of lies.
- La Catedral wasn’t a prison; it was a throne room from where I ruled without chains.
- They thought enclosing me would clip my wings, but I built an empire within those walls.
- A king builds his castle as he pleases; La Catedral was proof of my reign over law itself.
- Inside La Catedral, I was not a prisoner of the state, but the state was a prisoner of my will.
- Even from the confines of my ‘prison’, I controlled more than most men free on the streets.
- I gave back to the poor not because it was charity, but because it was justice.
- To the rich, I was a monster; to the poor, a hero who remembered his roots.
- Every brick I laid in those barrios was a debt paid to my beginnings.
- They loved me not because I gave them what they wanted, but because I gave them what they deserved.
- In the hearts of the poor, my legacy would endure beyond the reach of bullets and laws.
- The chase only made the game more thrilling; every escape was a victory over the impossible.
- To evade the law, you must think like the law, but with the soul of an outlaw.
- For every trap they set, I had a dozen exits—each escape was a lesson they failed to learn.
- They hunted me like a fox, but I knew the jungle better than the hounds.
- Survival wasn’t luck; it was a skill, honed by a life chased by shadows.
- Plata o Plomo? A simple choice for them, a necessary evil for us. You either take the silver or you take the lead.
- In our world, it’s not about right or wrong; it’s about power. And Plata o Plomo? That’s power.
- You offer them the silver, and if they refuse, the lead persuades where money cannot. It’s just business.
- This wasn’t cruelty; it was survival. In the jungle of the drug trade, it’s eat or be eaten.
- Plata o Plomo is not a threat, but a reality of life in our business. Choose wisely, and you live.
- We turned the skies and the seas into our highways. Airplanes, submarines—innovation driven by necessity.
- To stay ahead, you must innovate; hence, we took our trade beneath the waves and above the clouds.
- The sky was never the limit for us; it was just another route to deliver dreams in powdered form.
- Every kilo flown or submerged was a testament to our ingenuity. We didn’t just push boundaries; we erased them.
- Innovation is survival. The deeper you go, the higher you fly, the harder you are to catch.
- Trust is the most expensive commodity in the cartel, and betrayal? It’s just part of the game.
- My allies were my strength, my betrayers, my stepping stones; each taught me the cost of power.
- In the cartel, you learn quickly that every handshake has a price and every smile hides a dagger.
- Loyalty in our business is as fluid as the product we move; it changes, evaporates, and sometimes poisons.
- I built my empire on loyalty, maintained it through fear, and watched it strain under the weight of betrayal.
- The U.S. waged war against drugs, but all they did was raise the stakes and the profits.
- American policy didn’t stop us; it made us smarter, more ruthless, and ironically, more essential.
- Every law, every restriction they placed, was just a puzzle to be solved—a challenge we met with open arms.
- They thought they could control the game by changing the rules, but we owned the board.
- The American war on drugs was a war on their own people, and for us, it was just business as usual.
- My family was my fortress—the heart of all my decisions. For them, I was both a protector and a provider.
- I built an empire, but my greatest legacy will always be my children, my blood.
- In the shadows of my business, my family stood as my beacon, my true north.
- Every risk, every decision, was for them—to secure a future no one could give us but me.
- They say I was a monster, but to my family, I was just a man trying to survive in a cruel world.
Building the Medellín Cartel
Political Aspirations
Budget-Friendly Excellence
La Catedral – My Personal Prison
Robin Hood Figure
The Art of Evading Law Enforcement
The Philosophy Behind Plata o Plomo
Innovations in Drug Trafficking
Relationships Within My Cartel
Impact of U.S. Foreign Policy on My Operations
My Family and Their Role in My Life and Business
