Toby Muse

KILO has been translated into ten languages.
Filmmaker, authour, foreign correspondent.
I chose this life so now better learn to live with the consequences.

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Paperback of Kilo: Inside the Cocaine Cartels is out soon from @WmMorrowBooks I’m giving away 5 signed copies. Kilo travels the front lines of the unending war on drugs, meeting the traffickers, hired killers, and police amid record cocaine output. Retweet & I’ll pick five names

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@PINNLAND_EMPIRE Downer. Had high hopes for the RZA taking on grindhouse - in the best outcome, that's a great fucking film. I'll still check it out, but sounds a bit of a mess.

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There's always something pathetic about these old gangsters, waddling around decrepit and free, charging podcasts to reminisce over the good old days when they could murder with impunity.

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Pablo Escobar's ex-partner and ex-Medellin cartel capo, Carlos Lehder, urges Colombians to vote for the right-wing Abelardo de la Espriella (w/out naming him).
As I wrote in Kilo, narcos usually lean far-right.

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Pablo Escobar's ex-partner and ex-Medellin cartel capo, Carlos Lehder, urges Colombians to vote for the right-wing Abelardo de la Espriella (w/out naming him).
As I wrote in Kilo, narcos usually lean far-right.

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@vashikoo Reading his biography. His contract had vague terms for when a stuntman/stand-in was needed. As the Pink Panthers progressed, he constantly demanded the stuntman for such shots as getting out of a car. The book says there's one scene where you can see multiple stand-ins.

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We're stuck in a never-ending Hell of failed drug policy and the media coverage is partly responsible.
I can't suffer through another article on the cocaine trade which quotes academics, experts, government officials but not a single person from the underworld itself.

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@SebastianA4240 I'm not advocating for either talks or war, mainly laying out what I think is going to happen.

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I spoke with one of the leaders of the FARC dissidents. Here's what he said (paraphrased): If Abelardo is elected, no one here is going to be shaking in their boots. If it's a return to war, then war it is. We've all lived through it.

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@Sportswalkthe I see your point - but it's really not enough. A young journalist needs to feed themselves - these are tough dilemmas. He has the money to stand up and clearly state that he thinks the murder of 60 Mins is wrong.

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Love how Scott Pelley is kicking and screaming on his way out, shouting about what is being done to 60 Mins. Compare with Anderson Cooper who also had a chance to stand up and denounce the murder of the program - like out of The Insider - but who instead skulked off

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Another thing I've been thinking on recently: Colombia hasn't really lived total war since about 2012 or so. A lot of people here have either never lived it or forgotten what it was like.

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I spoke with one of the leaders of the FARC dissidents. Here's what he said (paraphrased): If Abelardo is elected, no one here is going to be shaking in their boots. If it's a return to war, then war it is. We've all lived through it.

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Colombia has made huge progress in its international image, foreign investments, tourism. A lot of that will suffer if the country returns to widespread war. So who loses more from the return to war? Colombia or the illegal armed groups?
War is a lot easier to threaten than win.

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Or will he be smart and target his attacks on one region or group at a time? If the illegal armed groups are intelligent, they won't let it happen, they won't allow themselves be divided and conquered - if the army attacks in the north, they cause havoc in the south.

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Entonces, ¿quién tiene más que perder con un retorno a la guerra total: Colombia o los grupos armados ilegales?

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Hablé con uno de los líderes de las disidencias. Dijo lo siguiente: Si Abelardo es elegido, nadie aquí se va a temblar. Si hay un regreso a la guerra, pues habrá guerra. Todos ya hemos pasado por eso.

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¿Va a iniciar una guerra que no puede terminar (como Trump con Irán)?
Colombia ha logrado enormes avances en su imagen internacional, en la inversión extranjera y en el turismo. Gran parte de eso podría verse afectado si el país regresa al campo de batalla.