Drug smuggler finds the Lord

Religion Today  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Nov 2000
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God's grace has miraculously transformed a notorious cocaine smuggler, a man who destroyed countless lives, into an ardent Christian.

Jorge Valdes said he was pocketing more than $1 million a month in the late 1970s as the US head of Colombia's notorious Medellin cartel, then the world's largest criminal organisation.

His job was to oversee the import of millions of dollars' worth of cocaine into the country and its distribution to unknown numbers of drug users around the country.

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