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PUERTO RICO - A BORDER WITHOUT CUSTOMS

By Marisol Echevarria · 4 parts · 12 h 41 min · English

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Puerto Rico is inside the United States for everything a smuggler cares about and outside it for much of what a voter does. This book follows its criminal economy from the housing-project drug points of Bayamón to the offshore bank licenses of San Juan: a police force the FBI caught guarding cocaine deals, an education secretary with contractors' cash in his office safe, a convicted murderer who walked out of prison, a bank branch where gym bags of cash became wires, and a governor's case that ended in a pardon. Covers Ángel Ayala Vázquez and the Barbosa drug organization, José Figueroa Agosto and his lawyer Ramón Negrón Colón, Víctor Fajardo and the Department of Education, Wanda Vázquez Garced, Julio Herrera Velutini and Bancrédito, and Banco Popular de Puerto Rico.

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  1. Part 01

    2:55:27

  2. Part 02

    3:10:55

  3. Part 03

    2:50:34

  4. Part 04

    3:43:43

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