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• Translator: Louise Cocks
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• Creation Date: 15. Nov. 2011
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Welcome to Bogotá, Colombia.
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We're here chasing after the most dangerous drug in the world:
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burundanga.
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Burundanga is the source of scopolamine,
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which is basically like the worst roofie you can ever imagine
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times a million.
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You're at the whim of suggestions like,
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"Hey, take me to your ATM."
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"Hey, come with me to the hotel room
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while you're completely conscious and articulate."
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[COLOMBIAN DEVIL'S BREATH]
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Apparently, there's a lot of different parts to the plant
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that are a bit dangerous,
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possibly a bit fun, depending on what you're into.
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So we're gonna be looking for the tree,
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talking to people who've had experience with it,
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and seeing if we can find some of the actual drug ourselves.
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So the deal with burundanga,
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is that it pretty much eliminates your free will.
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So you're awake and you're articulate
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and to anyone else watching you, it seems like you're perfectly fine.
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But you've completely lost control of your own actions,
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so you're at the whim of suggestions and that's how people take advantage of you.
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I've heard a bunch of different stories
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really running the gamut.
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Some of them sound like kinda campfire horror stories
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you were told when you were growing up.
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Stuff like waking up in a bathtub with an organ cut out
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and a sign saying you have five hours to get to the hospital.
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We've of course also heard that it's used as a date rape drug.
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We heard one particularly chilling story
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where a guy was taken back to his apartment,
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woke up the next morning in an empty apartment,
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completely confused as to what happened.
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Went down and said to his doorman,
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"Why is my apartment empty?
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What happened?"
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The doorman said, "Well, you brought it out with two of your friends last night,
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all your stuff, you loaded it into a van."
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The guy was like, "Why in the hell would you let me do that?"
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And he was like, "Because you told me to."
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So that's kind of the stuff we're dealing with here.
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Complete elimination of free will
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while still acting, which is pretty much the scariest shit I can imagine.
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[DEMENCIA BLACK
DRUG DEALER]
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Scopolamine is a drug like no other. Nothing can compare.
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Got me?
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For example, with this,
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you could be walking right here and suddenly...
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You have your back turned or
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a girl walking right here and I walk up and go...
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Just like that.
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With just that flash, the person is totally drugged.
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You wait a minute and when you see it kick in,
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then you know that you own that person.
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You can guide them wherever you want.
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It's like they're a child.
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You say, "Take me to your house, give me your checkbook,
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take out your savings, give me your credit card numbers, ta ta ta."
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Just like that.
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If you exceed the dose, you run the risk of...
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the person dying.
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Colombia's basically fucked.
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They have the longest running guerrilla war in all of Latin America,
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they've essentially been at civil war for 60 years and really, if you think about it,
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they've never not been at war since they gained their own independence.
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Other fun facts about Colombia, definitely not from the Board of Tourism,
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include the fact that one in every three kidnappings in the world
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happen right here in Colombia,
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and as we all know, it's the cocaine capital of the universe.
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One gram of Scopolamine is like a gram of cocaine.
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It's the same shit. It has the same density, weight and look.
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But with one gram, you can kill up to 10 or 15 people.
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Kill!
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That's why it's so extremely delicate and hard to get.
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I can get it because I know where to get fucking anything.
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Now, the borrachero tree, which by the way
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roughly translates to Drunken Binge tree,
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is indigenous to the Northern Andean region.
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That includes Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
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But the scopolamine is really only used by the criminal element here in Colombia.
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There's one over here.
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I know we can find one here.
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Didn't you see the one by Cesar's house?
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Here it grows wild.
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So despite the insane homicide rates,
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the kidnapping, the narco-trafficking, the civil unrest,
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and everything else going on here in Colombia,
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we can't seem to find a Colombian who's more scared of anything
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than falling asleep under the borrachero tree.
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So far, I'm really into Colombia.
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I showed up, beautiful women ordered me dinner, and it's fantastic.
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And they ordered a bottle of whiskey to the table.
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I might not go back.
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Wait, wait. I'll sing it.
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Songo beat Borondongo...
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...na, na na na...
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...Bernabé beat Burundanga...
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...da na na na na...
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...they made their feet swell!
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There is a song with it, I don't know why, but...
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No, no, no, it's been around for a long time.
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So it's not something that is popularly done down here then?
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No, anybody does that? No, no.
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Not at all.
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No, we have cocaine.
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We have cocaine, we have drugs.
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We have weed.
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What, what, burundanga, why?
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Everybody's aware.
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Everyone is careful.
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You know? It's like, you cannot control it at all.
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You don't need it in a cup...
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...or with a drink to smell it.
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To smell it, yeah.
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It's very strong.
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The robbers use it for that because they know that you cannot see it.
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Or a paper.
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Like, I heard this guy...
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This old lady came to him, "Oh, I don't know where this address is."
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On this paper and he just got it like this close
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and he's on it.
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Yeah.
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So this guy was really crazy.
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He was walking in the hospital really lost.
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Perfect drug to do that, you know?
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Because the person doesn't pass out.
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They're still conscious.
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And they do everything that they tell you to do.
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Do you know people that have been given burundanga?
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Do you have a cousin or a friend of a cousin?
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No, I have an uncle.
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An uncle?
- Yeah.
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Yeah, it's not a happy story. You know?
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But he was a taxi cab driver.
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And...
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they used this thing.
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Yeah?
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I don't know the whole story exactly,
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but it was his last trip.
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He died.
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He died?
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It's called Floripondio.
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Its scientific name is Datura...
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...from there you extract the Scopolamine.
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But in Colombia we also call it Borrachero or the Devil's Plant.
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We're here at the Botanical Gardens on the outskirts of Bogotá.
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I'm going to go see if we can figure out what this plant actually looks like.
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Those right there are the flowers that we've heard a lot about.
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You can kinda put those in a tea and you'll hallucinate.
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You can also take the root down there, put that in a tea,
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and again, you'll hallucinate.
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And then there's the cacao,
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which kinda looks like the mini coconut of sorts.
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That has the seeds inside.
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I ate a fruit and a half.
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I tripped for seventeen days straight with a friend of mine.
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My friend stayed on the trip.
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He still walks around like this...
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I don't know what trip he got stuck in.
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Fuck! Imagine staying like that.
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He walks down the street like this.
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Looking from behind his hand.
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Who knows what fucking trip he got stuck in.
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Fucking crazy.
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He's always like this, like he's behind a curtain.
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I actually just cracked the thing.
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Right there. And then...
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This is where the seeds are.
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I mean, that's where everything comes from, right?
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That's what they use to actually make the scopolamine.
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You're in business.
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The most dangerous drug in Colombia and, arguably, the world.
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The powder is extracted from the "cacao savanero."
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That's the fruit.
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But then the powder has to be treated chemically.
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To grind it, bleach it and make it into a pill or whatever,
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you need a chemical.
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It's like how you use ether to process cocaine etc.
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The process is completely chemical.
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The coca at the end of the day, with its obvious pitfalls and dangers,
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is recreational.
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Whereas there's nothing at all recreational
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about what can be made with this.
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It's a distinctly criminal element.
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You're like a complete
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zombie.
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Following the people giving you orders.
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[CAROLINA
SCOPOLAMINE VICTIM]
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The worst part of this experience
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was becoming a victim,
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while trying to be good and help others.
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I was involved in all this violence that we live in.
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The irony of sorts is that it's beautiful.
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It's a very nice plant.
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Smells very nice.
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I'm enjoying this right now.
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Seems quite Colombian all in all. Very beautiful and very dangerous.
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This is pretty much the symbol of Colombia, isn't it?
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If you didn't know what you were looking for,
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you'd walk right by and go,
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"That's a pretty flower. Maybe I'll pick it, give it to my mom."
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But that would be a real bad idea.
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It's like,
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you lose all your willpower. I don't know.
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You can't react.
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You lose the ability to say, "Hey!"
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"There's something very wrong with all of this."
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You can get 1 gram of scopolamine
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for 40 or 50 pesos, more or less.
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But with 1 gram of scopolamine, you've got one fucked up ride.
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That's my friend's bar, where I'll get it.
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You see that truck over there?
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You can pull up behind that truck.
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Okay?
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I won't be long.
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I won't be long, guys.
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Yeah?
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What's up? All good.
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This stuff has only 2 uses.
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To rob,
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to study,
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or to kill. Understand?
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Actually, there are three.
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There are three.
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Got it?
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There are three lethal uses, motherfucker.
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It's the transmitter of poisons, motherfucker.
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You're going to flip out with this shit.
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On my way to catch the bus,
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a man stopped me and asked me for directions.
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He asked me if I knew the address and showed me a piece of paper.
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I knew it was very close by.
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So I ended up taking him where he wanted to go.
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We drank some juice.
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And that's when I think he gave me the scopolamine,
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in the drink.
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So now we're here at the National University of Colombia.
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We're gonna go talk to Dr. Miriam Gutierez,
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who heads up the Toxicology department here
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and apparently is an expert on scopolamine.
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We'll try and chat with her a bit about what actually happens
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when someone's exposed to the drug.
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And try to figure out what this whole zombie thing really means.
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From a medical point of view,
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it's the perfect substance
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for criminal acts,
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because the victim won't remember anything,
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and therefore, won't report anything.
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Because when they try to remember who gave it to them,
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their memory is gone.
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And when they wake up and realize they've been robbed,
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they don't remember that they themselves collaborated.
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And so, that's the property that is thought
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to be exploited from substances like these,
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that have the ability to 'hypnotize' the patient.
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I was taken to my house.
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I lived very near by.
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I grabbed a few things and then I ransacked the entire house.
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I was so happy ransacking everything.
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I knew that my boyfriend had some savings.
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So I went through everything until I found the envelope.
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Unfortunately, I found it.
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It was full of dollars and euros.
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They were savings he had kept for a long time.
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He was a photographer, so I gave away his cameras too.
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I took as much as I could.
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I was happy searching and wanted to continue.
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When I realized what had happened, I began to cry,
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and went straight to the police station,
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which was 4 blocks away.
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I was screaming, I had a panic attack.
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Fortunately, I only received a small dose.
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And they only took the money from my apartment.
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It's painful to have lost money,
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but I was actually quite lucky.
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If they had been even worse people,
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I might have been raped in my apartment,
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or anything.
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60,000 pesos?
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For the scopolamine?
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No, no, but
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for taking us there, getting it, and all that.
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Look,
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I'll show it to you.
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No, no, no!
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No. One moment. I want to show it to you.
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Don't freak out.
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Trust me. It's all good.
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I know how to handle it correctly.
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Unless it's on a whole new level.
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Don't you worry.
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Don't worry!
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Oh shit! Motherfucker!
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It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
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Nothing happened.
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It's airborne, but not enough.
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Okay, okay, okay. Okay!
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Look.
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Just like this, you don't need anything else.
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Tape, but black tape.
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You felt it?!
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Yeah, fuckin' heavy, right?
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You felt it, you felt the odor?
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Right?
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The ghost came out.
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No problem.
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Start driving. Ventilate the fuckin'
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car before we all start tripping!
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Here, take this.
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You're very kind.
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Be very careful.
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Be very careful; it's like anthrax.
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It's worse than anthrax. Worse than anthrax.
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Scopolamine is by no means a modern revelation here in Colombia.
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The indigenous people in this area have had a whole bunch of uses for the drug.
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For example, when a chieftain died,
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all his assorted females, wives, mistresses, what have you,
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they had to go as well.
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Now that could be a bit of a dicey process,
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but what better way to shore things up than to slip them some scopolamine
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and suggest they walk into a grave.
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When they did, they were buried alive.
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In modern times, there's a whole litany of fucked up people
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who've been using scopolamine for their benefit.
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For example, in the 1930s and '40s,
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Josef Mangele had the drug imported from Colombia to Germany
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to use on some of his interrogations.
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More recently, the CIA tried to use the drug in the '60s during the Cold War
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as sort of a truth serum.
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The problem with all of this is that in addition to a whole lot of truth,
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there's a good bit of hallucination involved.
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In a cab right now, heading over to the Southern part of the city.
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We're going to meet with some officials at the Bogotá City Police Department.
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What we're hoping to figure out
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is a little bit more about how the Burundanga gangs work.
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The most common scenario
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[CAPT. ROMERO MENDOZA
BOGOTA METRO POLICE]
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is when people,
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usually men,
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go out, go to nightclubs,
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go to brothels.
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They start drinking
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and somebody drops scopolamine
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in the liquor.
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And then they take them,
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many times in their own car,
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to banks and ATM machines
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and make them take all their money out.
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Other times, they're kidnapped.
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They're organized gangs.
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They use women.
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Usually, they are very beautiful women.
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And men allow themselves to be fooled by the beauty of these women,
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and fall under their spell, as they say.
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So it seems like a lot of the worst scopolamine stories that we've heard,
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start and end at places just like this.
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And the next thing we're able to get from someone is,
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"I woke up on a park bench, day and a half later,
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without my clothes on, without any money." Whatever it is.
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[COLOMBIAN DEVIL'S BREATH]
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This drug has always been kinda inextricably linked to sex in some way or another.
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From its earliest uses to eliminate the lingering mistresses of fallen chieftains,
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to its eventual use in easing the pain of childbirth,
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to the stories we're hearing on the streets today
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about prostitutes giving it to unsuspecting johns,
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or about men turning women into prostitutes
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by suggesting they go out and earn some cash.
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It always seems to come back to sex in one way or another
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and it always seems to start at places like this.
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Two black girls came over to us.
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Very pleasant girls, by the way.
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They sat down next to us.
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[IVAN GOMEZ
SCOPOLAMINE VICTIM]
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That was around
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10 or 11 at night.
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We started drinking and dancing.
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It was all very normal, very healthy.
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We finished the bottle of rum and ordered another one.
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We were slightly buzzed from the drinks.
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At a certain point my friend announced that he was leaving.
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But I didn't want to leave because I was enjoying the party.
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So I decided to stay a little longer.
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I believe that was my mistake,
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because once I was alone,
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they took the opportunity
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to slip me something.
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Another mistake I made
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was to leave my drink and go to the bathroom.
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Obviously, by the time I came back, they had put something in my drink.
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We kept drinking, and that's where I start to forget.
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I was feeling dizzy.
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Whatever they put in the drink started to have its effect.
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I also remember that we were still drinking and dancing
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at around 2 am.
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What happened after that?
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I don't know what happened.
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I have no explanation.
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I can't say I did this or did that.
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Nothing.
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The next day around 8 in the morning,
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I woke up in a neighborhood park.
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Beaten.
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How I was beaten or what happened, I don't remember.
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When we need money and we see a guy walk in with it,
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whatever. We give him scopolamine.
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We sit him down and start touching him.
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Or we swipe his nose and he goes dumb.
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[JESSICA MARIA
PROSTITUTE]
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21 years old.
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Guys do it by sending the woman to get a cigarette,
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or to the bathroom or anywhere so they can slip it into their drink.
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We do the same with the guys, "Hey, Papi, I want a cigarette."
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And he goes, "Sure, right away."
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Then you take the opportunity.
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They stole my documents.
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They took my money from the ATM.
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They took cash advances from my credit cards.
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I lost about 6 million pesos (USD $3,1000).
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I inquired about my money at the bank and they showed me a video of me withdrawing it.
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I enter alone, but outside two people were waiting for me.
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I assume they were the same ladies that I was with.
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They're very smart,
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so they stayed behind the ATM
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so their faces couldn't be seen.
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The capacity that women have
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to enchant you.
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Simply put, it's beauty that kills you in the end.
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Just as we use it to rob men,
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men use it to rape us.
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Everything about scopolamine has to do with hurting people.
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You can kill a person in 5 to 20 minutes without realizing it.
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I want to show it to you.
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Look.
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Look! Shit, man!
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Look.
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And this is the fruit. It's full, you see.
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Spectacular.
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With this you have a trip for ten people.
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Kids go to kindergarten right around the corner, fuck!
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Welcome to "Locombia!"
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Aaah! Sex, drugs, rock and roll!
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Satan!
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Satan.
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I'm going to take at least one.
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I've been to the doctor several times for that.
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Why? Because I have residual effects. I forget things.
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I have that problem.
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Right now I'm talking with you, but tomorrow I won't remember what we talked about.
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I also fight a lot in my sleep.
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My dreams are all nightmares.
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The hardest thing is not knowing what happened.
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That's the hardest.
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The first time I used it
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was when I lived in Medellin.
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I knocked on an old lady's door. I remember it well.
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She opened a window for me and
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I said, "Miss, we're looking for food."
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And she said, "I have some leftovers if you want."
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So she opened the window and I don't know what came over me,
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but I just took the paper and I swiped the lady with it
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and she just fell at once.
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She had a heart attack and fell to the ground.
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I was scared and everything.
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But just like that, we took the TV and everything and walked out over her.
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That was the first time I used scopolamine.
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From then on, I used it with my clients
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in the room or while drinking with them.
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I give it to them in a drink or I swipe them with it
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or I put it under my nose and go up to them so they smell it.
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You just stick a piece of cotton up your nose, deep inside.
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Then you put the drug under your nose, approach the person and he just sniffs it.
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They see you sniff and then they sniff it.
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Then you just go wash yourself, take the cotton out and you're fine.
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There's a way to do anything in this world.
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For everything, there's a way.
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I gave it to them, robbed them, and took off.
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Things you learn in your youth on the streets.
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If I had to write down everyone I had given it to.
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To think that I started doing these things at age 15
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until now that I'm 21.
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Just imagine how many people.
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You just think about hurting others,
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because you've already been hurt.
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You think, "My life is useless, I'll just do whatever I want."
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That's what I used to think, and I know I'm still young,
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but I never imagined having this life.
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I never imagined it.
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Never.
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I can't believe I did all these bad things and I'm still here, completely relaxed.
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But a lot of those bad things I've already paid with blood, with tears,
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with a lot of things.
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So far, we've heard a lot of stories about burundanga,
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but we'd like to get a little bit closer.
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So we've asked some of our Colombian friends to put us in touch with someone
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who has had experience with burundanga.
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The problem with scopolamine
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is that you don't look drugged.
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You're like, "Hey, let's go." "Sure, let's go." And you go.
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And to everyone else, you look normal.
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It's not like..
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It's not like they drag you out like this.
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Scopolamine traps your consciousness.
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It traps you.
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It's crazy.
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And you look fine.
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[LUIS EDUARDO
SCOPOLAMINE VICTIM]
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It's like chemical hypnosis.
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Absolutely.
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It's like...
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You know what they call it on the streets?
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They call it the Devil's Breath.
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Because it steals your soul.
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I used to share an apartment with this friend.
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And then he got married.
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So he called me to go celebrate at the Quiebracantos,
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a famous place here in Bogota that he frequented.
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From there we went to a brothel.
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The story has two parts.
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The moment we were at the place
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and my friend called the girls over
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and we were drinking.
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And...
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the moment when I woke up,
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I woke up on a park bench in the center.
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When I came back home, the doorman told me,
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"You came here with some people and took out your belongings."
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But everything seemed normal.
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None of us seemed drunk.
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Nothing. Normal.
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So the story goes that they brought us
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to my apartment. And we all went in.
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The girls, the guy, my friend Carlos,
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I gave them everything. Cameras, money, everything.
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I emptied my account for them,
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the whole deal.
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I woke up in one place.
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I had no recollection of the previous night and couldn't find Carlos.
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He turned up at the city morgue as a John Doe.
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He died from scopolamine overdose.
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I think he died as a result of his high tolerance
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they had to keep giving him more.
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Until they lost him.
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And they dumped him on the street.
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Do you know how it was given to you?
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Was it in a drink?
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I don't know, man.
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A drink?
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No idea.
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No idea.
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The problem is death.
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The problem is knowing how much the client can take.
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I think Carlos had a very high tolerance.
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His body could handle a lot.
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But eventually,
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he had a heart attack.
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That's why I had to do what I did to them,
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for being sons of bitches.
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Oh my God.
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That better be the scariest drug I ever see in person.
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Can you feel it?
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Don't let go of that fuckin' thing.
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The fact that
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I came to my apartment with these people.
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Fuck, what did they do to me? What don't I remember?
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That leaves a mark.
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That leaves a mark.
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But they made a mistake.
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They didn't realize that I was well known in that neighborhood.
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I had been a gangster, a real tough guy.
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Bad. Bad. Bad.
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I began to reconstruct the events of the night
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and I found out everything, because everyone knows me.
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"You were with these girls and this guy,
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who works for that guy" and so on.
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It was a pimp and two prostitutes.
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Part of a gang that strips cars.
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So, of course, they had to hit the floor too.
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I gave them the same ride.
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I hired some people to get back at them.
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They got it very bad.
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Those bitches were brutally raped and murdered in a hotel room.
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The guy got it just as bad.
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I had them all killed.
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The three of them.
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For being sons of bitches.
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Why?
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Because I was just coming out of that hard world
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and if I didn't do something,
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I had to fly.
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In that world,
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if someone does that to you and you don't do anything about it,
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they lose their respect for you.
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That's how vengeance is around tough guys.
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Are we done with it?
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I'm fuckin' over it, dude.
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After all this...
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Into the sewers?
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Anywhere but here.
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Not bummed to see you go, I'll tell you that much.
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I feel like that shit...
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When I first got here, I was like,
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super interested in it and it was like, this novelty thing.
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I've heard enough stories, man, that...
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just not fucking into that. It's not funny at all.
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Make sure you throw away those gloves...
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• Translated Title: New Track
• Translator: Louise Cocks
• Language: English
• Subtitles: 355
• Words: 2975
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• Creation Date: 15. Nov. 2011
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Welcome to Bogotá, Colombia.
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We're here chasing after the most dangerous drug in the world:
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burundanga.
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Burundanga is the source of scopolamine,
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which is basically like the worst roofie you can ever imagine
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times a million.
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You're at the whim of suggestions like,
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"Hey, take me to your ATM."
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"Hey, come with me to the hotel room
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while you're completely conscious and articulate."
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[COLOMBIAN DEVIL'S BREATH]
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Apparently, there's a lot of different parts to the plant
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that are a bit dangerous,
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possibly a bit fun, depending on what you're into.
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So we're gonna be looking for the tree,
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talking to people who've had experience with it,
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and seeing if we can find some of the actual drug ourselves.
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So the deal with burundanga,
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is that it pretty much eliminates your free will.
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So you're awake and you're articulate
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and to anyone else watching you, it seems like you're perfectly fine.
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But you've completely lost control of your own actions,
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so you're at the whim of suggestions and that's how people take advantage of you.
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I've heard a bunch of different stories
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really running the gamut.
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Some of them sound like kinda campfire horror stories
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you were told when you were growing up.
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Stuff like waking up in a bathtub with an organ cut out
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and a sign saying you have five hours to get to the hospital.
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We've of course also heard that it's used as a date rape drug.
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We heard one particularly chilling story
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where a guy was taken back to his apartment,
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woke up the next morning in an empty apartment,
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completely confused as to what happened.
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Went down and said to his doorman,
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"Why is my apartment empty?
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What happened?"
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The doorman said, "Well, you brought it out with two of your friends last night,
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all your stuff, you loaded it into a van."
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The guy was like, "Why in the hell would you let me do that?"
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And he was like, "Because you told me to."
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So that's kind of the stuff we're dealing with here.
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Complete elimination of free will
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while still acting, which is pretty much the scariest shit I can imagine.
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[DEMENCIA BLACK
DRUG DEALER]
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Scopolamine is a drug like no other. Nothing can compare.
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Got me?
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For example, with this,
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you could be walking right here and suddenly...
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You have your back turned or
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a girl walking right here and I walk up and go...
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Just like that.
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With just that flash, the person is totally drugged.
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You wait a minute and when you see it kick in,
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then you know that you own that person.
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You can guide them wherever you want.
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It's like they're a child.
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You say, "Take me to your house, give me your checkbook,
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take out your savings, give me your credit card numbers, ta ta ta."
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Just like that.
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If you exceed the dose, you run the risk of...
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the person dying.
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Colombia's basically fucked.
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They have the longest running guerrilla war in all of Latin America,
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they've essentially been at civil war for 60 years and really, if you think about it,
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they've never not been at war since they gained their own independence.
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Other fun facts about Colombia, definitely not from the Board of Tourism,
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include the fact that one in every three kidnappings in the world
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happen right here in Colombia,
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and as we all know, it's the cocaine capital of the universe.
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One gram of Scopolamine is like a gram of cocaine.
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It's the same shit. It has the same density, weight and look.
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But with one gram, you can kill up to 10 or 15 people.
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Kill!
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That's why it's so extremely delicate and hard to get.
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I can get it because I know where to get fucking anything.
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Now, the borrachero tree, which by the way
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roughly translates to Drunken Binge tree,
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is indigenous to the Northern Andean region.
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That includes Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
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But the scopolamine is really only used by the criminal element here in Colombia.
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There's one over here.
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I know we can find one here.
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Didn't you see the one by Cesar's house?
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Here it grows wild.
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So despite the insane homicide rates,
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the kidnapping, the narco-trafficking, the civil unrest,
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and everything else going on here in Colombia,
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we can't seem to find a Colombian who's more scared of anything
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than falling asleep under the borrachero tree.
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So far, I'm really into Colombia.
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I showed up, beautiful women ordered me dinner, and it's fantastic.
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And they ordered a bottle of whiskey to the table.
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I might not go back.
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Wait, wait. I'll sing it.
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Songo beat Borondongo...
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...na, na na na...
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...Bernabé beat Burundanga...
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...da na na na na...
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...they made their feet swell!
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There is a song with it, I don't know why, but...
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No, no, no, it's been around for a long time.
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So it's not something that is popularly done down here then?
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No, anybody does that? No, no.
- Really?
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Not at all.
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No, we have cocaine.
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We have cocaine, we have drugs.
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We have weed.
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What, what, burundanga, why?
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Everybody's aware.
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Everyone is careful.
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You know? It's like, you cannot control it at all.
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You don't need it in a cup...
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...or with a drink to smell it.
- No, no, just to smell it.
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To smell it, yeah.
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It's very strong.
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The robbers use it for that because they know that you cannot see it.
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Or a paper.
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Like, I heard this guy...
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This old lady came to him, "Oh, I don't know where this address is."
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On this paper and he just got it like this close
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and he's on it.
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Yeah.
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So this guy was really crazy.
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He was walking in the hospital really lost.
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Perfect drug to do that, you know?
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Because the person doesn't pass out.
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They're still conscious.
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And they do everything that they tell you to do.
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Do you know people that have been given burundanga?
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Do you have a cousin or a friend of a cousin?
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No, I have an uncle.
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An uncle?
- Yeah.
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Yeah, it's not a happy story. You know?
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But he was a taxi cab driver.
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And...
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they used this thing.
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Yeah?
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I don't know the whole story exactly,
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but it was his last trip.
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He died.
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He died?
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It's called Floripondio.
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Its scientific name is Datura...
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...from there you extract the Scopolamine.
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But in Colombia we also call it Borrachero or the Devil's Plant.
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We're here at the Botanical Gardens on the outskirts of Bogotá.
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I'm going to go see if we can figure out what this plant actually looks like.
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Those right there are the flowers that we've heard a lot about.
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You can kinda put those in a tea and you'll hallucinate.
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You can also take the root down there, put that in a tea,
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and again, you'll hallucinate.
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And then there's the cacao,
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which kinda looks like the mini coconut of sorts.
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That has the seeds inside.
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I ate a fruit and a half.
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I tripped for seventeen days straight with a friend of mine.
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My friend stayed on the trip.
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He still walks around like this...
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I don't know what trip he got stuck in.
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Fuck! Imagine staying like that.
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He walks down the street like this.
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Looking from behind his hand.
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Who knows what fucking trip he got stuck in.
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Fucking crazy.
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He's always like this, like he's behind a curtain.
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I actually just cracked the thing.
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Right there. And then...
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This is where the seeds are.
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I mean, that's where everything comes from, right?
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That's what they use to actually make the scopolamine.
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You're in business.
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The most dangerous drug in Colombia and, arguably, the world.
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The powder is extracted from the "cacao savanero."
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That's the fruit.
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But then the powder has to be treated chemically.
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To grind it, bleach it and make it into a pill or whatever,
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you need a chemical.
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It's like how you use ether to process cocaine etc.
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The process is completely chemical.
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The coca at the end of the day, with its obvious pitfalls and dangers,
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is recreational.
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Whereas there's nothing at all recreational
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about what can be made with this.
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It's a distinctly criminal element.
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You're like a complete
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zombie.
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Following the people giving you orders.
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[CAROLINA
SCOPOLAMINE VICTIM]
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The worst part of this experience
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was becoming a victim,
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while trying to be good and help others.
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I was involved in all this violence that we live in.
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The irony of sorts is that it's beautiful.
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It's a very nice plant.
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Smells very nice.
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I'm enjoying this right now.
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Seems quite Colombian all in all. Very beautiful and very dangerous.
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This is pretty much the symbol of Colombia, isn't it?
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If you didn't know what you were looking for,
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you'd walk right by and go,
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"That's a pretty flower. Maybe I'll pick it, give it to my mom."
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But that would be a real bad idea.
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It's like,
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you lose all your willpower. I don't know.
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You can't react.
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You lose the ability to say, "Hey!"
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"There's something very wrong with all of this."
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You can get 1 gram of scopolamine
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for 40 or 50 pesos, more or less.
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But with 1 gram of scopolamine, you've got one fucked up ride.
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That's my friend's bar, where I'll get it.
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You see that truck over there?
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You can pull up behind that truck.
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Okay?
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I won't be long.
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I won't be long, guys.
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Yeah?
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What's up? All good.
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This stuff has only 2 uses.
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To rob,
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to study,
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or to kill. Understand?
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Actually, there are three.
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There are three.
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Got it?
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There are three lethal uses, motherfucker.
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It's the transmitter of poisons, motherfucker.
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You're going to flip out with this shit.
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On my way to catch the bus,
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a man stopped me and asked me for directions.
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He asked me if I knew the address and showed me a piece of paper.
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I knew it was very close by.
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So I ended up taking him where he wanted to go.
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We drank some juice.
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And that's when I think he gave me the scopolamine,
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in the drink.
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So now we're here at the National University of Colombia.
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We're gonna go talk to Dr. Miriam Gutierez,
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who heads up the Toxicology department here
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and apparently is an expert on scopolamine.
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We'll try and chat with her a bit about what actually happens
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when someone's exposed to the drug.
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And try to figure out what this whole zombie thing really means.
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From a medical point of view,
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it's the perfect substance
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for criminal acts,
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because the victim won't remember anything,
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and therefore, won't report anything.
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Because when they try to remember who gave it to them,
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their memory is gone.
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And when they wake up and realize they've been robbed,
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they don't remember that they themselves collaborated.
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And so, that's the property that is thought
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to be exploited from substances like these,
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that have the ability to 'hypnotize' the patient.
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I was taken to my house.
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I lived very near by.
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I grabbed a few things and then I ransacked the entire house.
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I was so happy ransacking everything.
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I knew that my boyfriend had some savings.
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So I went through everything until I found the envelope.
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Unfortunately, I found it.
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It was full of dollars and euros.
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They were savings he had kept for a long time.
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He was a photographer, so I gave away his cameras too.
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I took as much as I could.
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I was happy searching and wanted to continue.
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When I realized what had happened, I began to cry,
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and went straight to the police station,
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which was 4 blocks away.
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I was screaming, I had a panic attack.
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Fortunately, I only received a small dose.
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And they only took the money from my apartment.
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It's painful to have lost money,
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but I was actually quite lucky.
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If they had been even worse people,
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I might have been raped in my apartment,
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or anything.
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60,000 pesos?
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For the scopolamine?
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No, no, but
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for taking us there, getting it, and all that.
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Look,
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I'll show it to you.
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No, no, no!
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No. One moment. I want to show it to you.
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Don't freak out.
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Trust me. It's all good.
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I know how to handle it correctly.
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Unless it's on a whole new level.
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Don't you worry.
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Don't worry!
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Oh shit! Motherfucker!
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It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
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Nothing happened.
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It's airborne, but not enough.
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Okay, okay, okay. Okay!
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Look.
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Just like this, you don't need anything else.
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Tape, but black tape.
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You felt it?!
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Yeah, fuckin' heavy, right?
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You felt it, you felt the odor?
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Right?
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The ghost came out.
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No problem.
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Start driving. Ventilate the fuckin'
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car before we all start tripping!
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Here, take this.
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You're very kind.
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Be very careful.
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Be very careful; it's like anthrax.
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It's worse than anthrax. Worse than anthrax.
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Scopolamine is by no means a modern revelation here in Colombia.
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The indigenous people in this area have had a whole bunch of uses for the drug.
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For example, when a chieftain died,
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all his assorted females, wives, mistresses, what have you,
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they had to go as well.
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Now that could be a bit of a dicey process,
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but what better way to shore things up than to slip them some scopolamine
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and suggest they walk into a grave.
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When they did, they were buried alive.
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In modern times, there's a whole litany of fucked up people
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who've been using scopolamine for their benefit.
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For example, in the 1930s and '40s,
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Josef Mangele had the drug imported from Colombia to Germany
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to use on some of his interrogations.
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More recently, the CIA tried to use the drug in the '60s during the Cold War
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as sort of a truth serum.
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The problem with all of this is that in addition to a whole lot of truth,
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there's a good bit of hallucination involved.
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In a cab right now, heading over to the Southern part of the city.
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We're going to meet with some officials at the Bogotá City Police Department.
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What we're hoping to figure out
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is a little bit more about how the Burundanga gangs work.
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The most common scenario
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[CAPT. ROMERO MENDOZA
BOGOTA METRO POLICE]
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is when people,
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usually men,
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go out, go to nightclubs,
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go to brothels.
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They start drinking
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and somebody drops scopolamine
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in the liquor.
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And then they take them,
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many times in their own car,
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to banks and ATM machines
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and make them take all their money out.
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Other times, they're kidnapped.
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They're organized gangs.
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They use women.
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Usually, they are very beautiful women.
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And men allow themselves to be fooled by the beauty of these women,
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and fall under their spell, as they say.
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So it seems like a lot of the worst scopolamine stories that we've heard,
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start and end at places just like this.
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And the next thing we're able to get from someone is,
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"I woke up on a park bench, day and a half later,
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without my clothes on, without any money." Whatever it is.
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[COLOMBIAN DEVIL'S BREATH]
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This drug has always been kinda inextricably linked to sex in some way or another.
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From its earliest uses to eliminate the lingering mistresses of fallen chieftains,
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to its eventual use in easing the pain of childbirth,
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to the stories we're hearing on the streets today
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about prostitutes giving it to unsuspecting johns,
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or about men turning women into prostitutes
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by suggesting they go out and earn some cash.
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It always seems to come back to sex in one way or another
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and it always seems to start at places like this.
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Two black girls came over to us.
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Very pleasant girls, by the way.
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They sat down next to us.
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[IVAN GOMEZ
SCOPOLAMINE VICTIM]
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That was around
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10 or 11 at night.
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We started drinking and dancing.
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It was all very normal, very healthy.
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We finished the bottle of rum and ordered another one.
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We were slightly buzzed from the drinks.
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At a certain point my friend announced that he was leaving.
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But I didn't want to leave because I was enjoying the party.
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So I decided to stay a little longer.
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I believe that was my mistake,
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because once I was alone,
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they took the opportunity
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to slip me something.
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Another mistake I made
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was to leave my drink and go to the bathroom.
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Obviously, by the time I came back, they had put something in my drink.
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We kept drinking, and that's where I start to forget.
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I was feeling dizzy.
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Whatever they put in the drink started to have its effect.
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I also remember that we were still drinking and dancing
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at around 2 am.
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What happened after that?
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I don't know what happened.
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I have no explanation.
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I can't say I did this or did that.
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Nothing.
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The next day around 8 in the morning,
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I woke up in a neighborhood park.
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Beaten.
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How I was beaten or what happened, I don't remember.
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When we need money and we see a guy walk in with it,
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whatever. We give him scopolamine.
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We sit him down and start touching him.
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Or we swipe his nose and he goes dumb.
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[JESSICA MARIA
PROSTITUTE]
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21 years old.
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Guys do it by sending the woman to get a cigarette,
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or to the bathroom or anywhere so they can slip it into their drink.
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We do the same with the guys, "Hey, Papi, I want a cigarette."
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And he goes, "Sure, right away."
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Then you take the opportunity.
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They stole my documents.
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They took my money from the ATM.
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They took cash advances from my credit cards.
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I lost about 6 million pesos (USD $3,1000).
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I inquired about my money at the bank and they showed me a video of me withdrawing it.
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I enter alone, but outside two people were waiting for me.
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I assume they were the same ladies that I was with.
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They're very smart,
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so they stayed behind the ATM
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so their faces couldn't be seen.
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The capacity that women have
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to enchant you.
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Simply put, it's beauty that kills you in the end.
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Just as we use it to rob men,
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men use it to rape us.
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Everything about scopolamine has to do with hurting people.
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You can kill a person in 5 to 20 minutes without realizing it.
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I want to show it to you.
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Look.
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Look! Shit, man!
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Look.
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And this is the fruit. It's full, you see.
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Spectacular.
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With this you have a trip for ten people.
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Kids go to kindergarten right around the corner, fuck!
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Welcome to "Locombia!"
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Aaah! Sex, drugs, rock and roll!
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Satan!
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Satan.
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I'm going to take at least one.
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I've been to the doctor several times for that.
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Why? Because I have residual effects. I forget things.
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I have that problem.
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Right now I'm talking with you, but tomorrow I won't remember what we talked about.
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I also fight a lot in my sleep.
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My dreams are all nightmares.
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The hardest thing is not knowing what happened.
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That's the hardest.
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The first time I used it
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was when I lived in Medellin.
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I knocked on an old lady's door. I remember it well.
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She opened a window for me and
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I said, "Miss, we're looking for food."
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And she said, "I have some leftovers if you want."
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So she opened the window and I don't know what came over me,
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but I just took the paper and I swiped the lady with it
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and she just fell at once.
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She had a heart attack and fell to the ground.
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I was scared and everything.
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But just like that, we took the TV and everything and walked out over her.
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That was the first time I used scopolamine.
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From then on, I used it with my clients
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in the room or while drinking with them.
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I give it to them in a drink or I swipe them with it
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or I put it under my nose and go up to them so they smell it.
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You just stick a piece of cotton up your nose, deep inside.
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Then you put the drug under your nose, approach the person and he just sniffs it.
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They see you sniff and then they sniff it.
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Then you just go wash yourself, take the cotton out and you're fine.
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There's a way to do anything in this world.
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For everything, there's a way.
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I gave it to them, robbed them, and took off.
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Things you learn in your youth on the streets.
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If I had to write down everyone I had given it to.
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To think that I started doing these things at age 15
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until now that I'm 21.
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Just imagine how many people.
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You just think about hurting others,
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because you've already been hurt.
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You think, "My life is useless, I'll just do whatever I want."
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That's what I used to think, and I know I'm still young,
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but I never imagined having this life.
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I never imagined it.
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Never.
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I can't believe I did all these bad things and I'm still here, completely relaxed.
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But a lot of those bad things I've already paid with blood, with tears,
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with a lot of things.
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So far, we've heard a lot of stories about burundanga,
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but we'd like to get a little bit closer.
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So we've asked some of our Colombian friends to put us in touch with someone
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who has had experience with burundanga.
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The problem with scopolamine
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is that you don't look drugged.
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You're like, "Hey, let's go." "Sure, let's go." And you go.
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And to everyone else, you look normal.
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It's not like..
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It's not like they drag you out like this.
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Scopolamine traps your consciousness.
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It traps you.
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It's crazy.
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And you look fine.
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[LUIS EDUARDO
SCOPOLAMINE VICTIM]
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It's like chemical hypnosis.
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Absolutely.
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It's like...
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You know what they call it on the streets?
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They call it the Devil's Breath.
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Because it steals your soul.
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I used to share an apartment with this friend.
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And then he got married.
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So he called me to go celebrate at the Quiebracantos,
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a famous place here in Bogota that he frequented.
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From there we went to a brothel.
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The story has two parts.
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The moment we were at the place
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and my friend called the girls over
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and we were drinking.
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And...
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the moment when I woke up,
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I woke up on a park bench in the center.
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When I came back home, the doorman told me,
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"You came here with some people and took out your belongings."
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But everything seemed normal.
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None of us seemed drunk.
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Nothing. Normal.
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So the story goes that they brought us
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to my apartment. And we all went in.
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The girls, the guy, my friend Carlos,
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I gave them everything. Cameras, money, everything.
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I emptied my account for them,
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the whole deal.
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I woke up in one place.
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I had no recollection of the previous night and couldn't find Carlos.
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He turned up at the city morgue as a John Doe.
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He died from scopolamine overdose.
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I think he died as a result of his high tolerance
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they had to keep giving him more.
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Until they lost him.
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And they dumped him on the street.
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Do you know how it was given to you?
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Was it in a drink?
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I don't know, man.
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A drink?
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No idea.
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No idea.
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The problem is death.
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The problem is knowing how much the client can take.
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I think Carlos had a very high tolerance.
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His body could handle a lot.
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But eventually,
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he had a heart attack.
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That's why I had to do what I did to them,
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for being sons of bitches.
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Oh my God.
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That better be the scariest drug I ever see in person.
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Can you feel it?
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Don't let go of that fuckin' thing.
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The fact that
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I came to my apartment with these people.
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Fuck, what did they do to me? What don't I remember?
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That leaves a mark.
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That leaves a mark.
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But they made a mistake.
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They didn't realize that I was well known in that neighborhood.
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I had been a gangster, a real tough guy.
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Bad. Bad. Bad.
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I began to reconstruct the events of the night
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and I found out everything, because everyone knows me.
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"You were with these girls and this guy,
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[00:13:50:00]
who works for that guy" and so on.
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It was a pimp and two prostitutes.
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Part of a gang that strips cars.
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So, of course, they had to hit the floor too.
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I gave them the same ride.
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I hired some people to get back at them.
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They got it very bad.
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Those bitches were brutally raped and murdered in a hotel room.
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The guy got it just as bad.
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I had them all killed.
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The three of them.
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For being sons of bitches.
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Why?
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Because I was just coming out of that hard world
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and if I didn't do something,
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I had to fly.
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In that world,
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if someone does that to you and you don't do anything about it,
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they lose their respect for you.
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That's how vengeance is around tough guys.
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Are we done with it?
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I'm fuckin' over it, dude.
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After all this...
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Into the sewers?
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Anywhere but here.
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Not bummed to see you go, I'll tell you that much.
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I feel like that shit...
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When I first got here, I was like,
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super interested in it and it was like, this novelty thing.
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I've heard enough stories, man, that...
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just not fucking into that. It's not funny at all.
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Make sure you throw away those gloves...
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