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In Scarface, the Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa was based on a real life Bolivian cocaine baron named Roberto Suárez Gómez - the so called “King of Cocaine” - and he was one of the most powerful crime figures in Latin American history.
Like Sosa, Suárez came from one of Bolivia’s most wealthy families. He was well educated and projected an image of a respectable family man - all the while running a cocaine empire that reportedly made over $400 million a year.
His family’s wealth began during the rubber boom of the late 19th century. They built a powerful commercial empire through rubber extraction by brutally exploiting the local Indigenous population. After the rubber industry collapsed in the early 1900s, cattle ranching became their main source of income.
Roberto inherited a business that had large swaths of land well suited for coca production, as well as a fleet of aircraft perfect for drug trafficking. When the cocaine boom took off in the mid-1970s, he repurposed those assets and quickly became the world's largest producer and supplier of coca paste - the base material used to make cocaine.
And much like Sosa, he had deep connections with Bolivia’s military, the CIA, and controlled his own private hit squad he used to take out his rivals. (1/5)
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