TABLE OF CONTENTS


Foreword                                                xi


PART I: La Plaza

1.  Ojinaga                                              5
2.  Contrabandistas                                     12
3.  Coup D'Etat                                         27
4.  The United States v. Pablo Acosta                   34
5   La Plaza                                            44
6.  Interregnum                                         61
7.  License to Traffic                                  72
8.  Blood Feud                                          78
9.  Gunslingers                                         88
10. Death in the Desert                                 99
11. Padrino                                            110


PART II: The Organization

12. Smuggling                                          122
13. Bonnie                                             136
14. Clyde                                              147
15. July 1985                                          156
16. The Sand Hills                                     170
17. North-South Dialogue                               181
18. Reign of Terror                                    195
19. The New Miami                                      205
20. Mimi's Miracle Ranch                               215

Part III: Death of a Drug Lord

21. White Goddess                                      236
22. Gene The Bean                                      245
23. Pablo Talks                                        251
24. Surrender                                          262
25. Comandante Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni            271
26. Santa Elena                                        292

Epilogue                                               309
Appendix                                               319
Index                                                  330