The underground empire : where crime and governments embrace by Mills James 1932-

Author:Mills, James, 1932-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Drug control, Drug abuse and crime, Organized crime, Drug control
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Published: 1986-04-19T05:00:00+00:00

After hearing Carlos Estrada's frightened voice talking nonsense about tractors, John Allen hung up the telephone, drove to the airport, got in his plane, and flew to Guatemala City, where he and Estrada had some time ago rented separate apartments on the Avenida Las Americas. He telephoned one of Estrada's sisters and told her about his peculiar phone conversation with her brother. He told her to get together all the money she could lay her hands on, fly to Mexico City, and check into the Hotel del Prado under the name of Rios. He'd meet her there.

Allen flew the Beechcraft to Veracruz and obscured his trail by changing to a commercial flight to Mexico City. He checked into a small downtown hotel and called Estrada's sister at the del Prado. There was no one registered under the name of Rios.

Allen then called Chris Rojas, a thirty-year-old Mexican to whom he'd sold cocaine he earned in his deals with Estrada. Rojas sounded surprised to hear Allen's voice and refused to talk on the telephone. When they met later in the hotel coffee shop Rojas wanted to know why Allen hadn't been arrested with everyone else.

"What do you mean, with everyone else?"

Rojas told Allen that Estrada and the others were all in jail, and the hundred kilos of cocaine were now the property of the Mexican government, or at least of Comandante Diaz-Laredo. He warned Allen that the Feds would certainly be looking for him. A young Argentinian named Rodolfo Asnares, another Estrada associate and a friend of Allen's from the old days in San Salvador, was hiding out in Rojas's apartment.

They went to the apartment and Asnares told Allen that Estrada had brought him and Ricardo Giarini, another Argentinian, to Mexico City to work in a cocaine lab. Asnares had called Estrada the day of the arrest, as Allen had, and talked to him while the cops were there. Sensing something was wrong, unable to control their curiosity and eager to know whether or not to flee, Asnares and Giarini drew straws to see who would go to Estrada's apartment and knock on the door. Giarini lost.

But the Argentine was not stupid. He went first to his embassy, talked cattle to a commercial officer, and then, prepared with a defensive story, approached Estrada's apartment. Despite the story, the cops had held him.

For the next few days Allen remained hidden while Chris Rojas scurried about the capital trying to find someone who could help get

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