Christopher Zoukis's Blog, page 33
January 20, 2014
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By Christopher Zoukis | Sunday, January 19, 2014
The Mexican government, appalled at the atrocities committed by the cartels during the late 1980s, began an investigation of the Mexican Cartels. The investigation revealed what was common knowledge: The police were corrupt. It was like cancer, spreading everywhere. Pressured by the DEA, the Mexican government decided to clean house. The Mexican army arrested Guadalajara Cartel drug lord Miguel Á...
January 15, 2014
Big Wheels
So much cocaine was being moved by the Mexicans that they had difficulty storing the cash. There were literally boxcars of money. In other words, everything was just peachy. But then Gallardo had an idea. Rather than being paid in cash, he could demand payment in product, cocaine. And that’s just what he did. The Colombians didn’t balk. They couldn’t. They had no choice in the matter. Florida was too risky. The DEA was seizing shipments left and right.
Overnight, Felix G...
January 14, 2014
Interview: Incarcerated Author Christopher Zoukis
By Randall Radic 
Christopher Zoukis / Photo courtesy Christopher Zoukis
His name is Christopher Zoukis. He is in prison at FCI Petersburg, VA. Mr. Zoukis is what is called ‘an incarcerated author.’ And to say that he’s prolific is like looking at the Pacific Ocean and remarking, “That’s a lot of water.”
In 2012, Sunbury Press published his book, Education Behind Bars: A Win-Win Strategy for Maximum Security. In 2014, not only is his latest text, the Directory of Federal Prisons, being publish...
January 10, 2014
Problems, Problems, Problems
Gallardo smelled a rat. Something was fishy in Denmark. A meeting was called. All the major players arrived and discussed the situation. Later, another meeting was held. All evidence pointed to Kike.
Kike and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar, were leaving the American consulate building in Guadalajara, when five gangsters attacked them, threw jackets over their heads, and tossed them into a waiting Volkswagen van. One month later, the bodies of Kike and Avelar were disco...
January 8, 2014
Rancho Bufalo
In reality, the Colombian Cartels, while certainly potent entities, were simply federations of gangsters.
During the early 1980s, the Medellin cartel ran the bulk of its cocaine into North America through Florida. It was nine-hundred-miles from Colombia to Florida. Planes would drop water-proof loads of coke into the ocean off Florida. Forty foot speedboats would pick it up and dash ashore with their valuable contents. At other times, the planes would simply drop thei...
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A Brief History of the Drug Cartels
Generally, middle-class and upper-class whites in America perceived marijuana use as a trivial matter. Most people didn’t use marijuana. Their perception changed drastically in 1948. Hollywood actors and actresses were habitual users of marijuana. Mexican marijuana was prevalent in Hollywood and easily obtainable. Movie star Robert Mitchum was arrested, along with his girlfriend, Lila Leeds, for using marijuana. Mitchum was sentenced to fifty days in jail, while Lila Lee...
January 3, 2014
Cartels
The southern states of Mexico include Chiapas, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Morelos, Tabasco, Guerrero, Michoacan, Veracruz and Oaxaca. Yucatan, Campeche and Quintana Roo profit from tourism, while the rest of the southern states, because of vast tracts of arable land, depend upon agriculture for their economic health. For the most part, the people of this region are hardworking and poor, despite the fact that they live on some of the most fertile land in the world....
December 30, 2013
Legends
By Christopher Zoukis 
Image courtesy mrzine.monthlyreview.org
According to legend, Stanley Tookie Williams was the co-founder of the Crips. The legend was nothing more than embellishment, encouraged by Tookie Williams. The reality of the situation was this: Raymond, wanting to expand the Crips to the west side of Los Angeles, approached Tookie Williams about running the gang’s west side territory. Tookie accepted, becoming the leader of the Westside Crips. Tookie Williams, even more muscular...
