“I kept wondering, ‘Who is this guy?’”

August 11, 2024 1:55 AM

Marset’s odyssey reads like a transnational caper, bordering on the absurd. But it is a startling window into the level of impunity at the nexus of Latin American public life and the lower rungs of professional soccer, enabling drug traffickers to wield enormous influence in both worlds. Years after a global manhunt for him began, Marset remains at large. from A double life: The cocaine kingpin who hid as a professional soccer player: Part I / Part II [Washington Post; ungated Part I / Part II]
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