Roberto Suárez Gómez

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Roberto Suárez Gómez (born January 8, 1932 in Santa Ana del Yacuma , † July 20, 2000 ) was a Bolivian pharmaceutical entrepreneur and drug dealer.

Life

Roberto Suárez Gómez was the youngest child of Blanca Gómez Roca and Nicómedes Suárez Franco, an entrepreneur in the beef production. His mother, Blanca Gómez Roca, is the sister of Luis Arce Gómez's mother . Under the regime of Hugo Banzer Suárez he used a land reform and dedicated himself to cocaine production. Mark Theoretically was boom this Cocastrauch products to an increased demand for yuppies founded in the US in the mid-1970s. Roberto Suárez Gómez enforced a monopoly on the part of the producers under the name The Corporation and became the main supplier to the Medellín cartel , which at that time was predominantly trading .

What constitutes the existence of this pharmaceutical industry is that it belongs to the raison d'être of the manufacturing states. Roberto Suárez Gómez's long-term impunity was also based on his role as a supplier for a drug distributor, the proceeds of which the Reagan administration used to finance the contra against the Sandinista government.

Roberto Suárez was married to Ayda Levy. Her firstborn son, Roby Suárez Levy (* 1958; † 1990) was arrested in Italy in early 1982 for illegal entry and deported to Switzerland. In the prison of Bellinzona he was by Joachim Fiebelkorn visited (* 1947). The Reagan administration requested extradition of the Bolivian citizen. On the morning of August 15, 1982, a squad of US Marines stormed into Bellinzona prison and took Roby to Miami . In a letter to Ronald Reagan , Roberto Suárez Gómez unsuccessfully offered to pay off the debt of the Hernán Siles Zuazo administration to the Reagan administration for USD 3.5 billion for the release of Roby . Roby was released on November 19, 1982 by order of Judge Peter Palermo and died in an exchange of fire with the police.

Roberto Suárez Gómez acquired shares in El Diario (Bolivia) while the publisher Carrasco's son-in-law, Jorge Enrique Crespo, was doing public relations work for him.

In 1989, under the government of Víctor Paz Estenssoro , Roberto Suárez Gómez was arrested in the north of Beni Department and sentenced to 15 years in prison for producing and distributing cocaine . Of these, he served less than half and ended his life as a beef producer with a myocardial infarction .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Guardian , August 4, 2000, Roberto Suárez , Notorious Bolivian drug baron and conduit for Oliver North's funds to the Nicaraguan contras
  2. ^ Fausto Cattaneo, Operazioni sotto copertura primi capitoli.
  3. ↑ Página / March 12 , 2013, LA BIOGRAFIA DE ROBERTO SUAREZ GOMEZ, EL REY DE LA COCAINA
  4. ^ Ayda Levy, Il re della cocaina 2012
  5. ↑ Ayda Levy, EL REY DE LA Cocaina
  6. ^ La Razón , March 24, 2013, Roberto Suárez, el protegido de la dictadura y de la democracia incipiente
personal data
SURNAME Suárez Gómez, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bolivian drug dealer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Ana del Yacuma
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 2000