Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

by Tom Wainwright

In a plot twist straight out of a bad gangster film, Amado died in 1997 in Mexico City while undergoing plastic surgery to disguise his appearance. No one knows quite why or how he was killed while under the knife. But a few months later, the bodies of three of the doctors who performed the botched operation were discovered encased in concrete inside sixty-six-gallon oil drums.