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词条 Sonia Sanjinez De Atala
释义

  1. Criminal career

  2. Personal life

  3. See also

  4. References

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Sonia Sanjinez de Atala (born c. 1951) is a Bolivian former drug trafficker. A member of "La Corporación" ("The Corporation"), Atala was one of the narcos responsible for the 1980 Bolivian coup d'état, known as the "Cocaine Coup", and the most powerful female drug lord in Bolivia at the time.

Criminal career

Atala was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She was the niece of drug trafficker Hugo Hurtado-Candia.[1]

She sold television sets and radios to Panama before she was hired by Luis Arce Gomez to smuggle drugs.[2] She was imprisoned in La Paz under the presidency of Lidia Gueiler Tejada, but for a short period.

After the "Cocaine Coup" in 1980, installed by various Bolivian drug kingpins, Minister of the Interior Luis Arce Gomez put Atala in charge of smuggling cocaine and money laundering operations across the country.[3] She paid her smugglers $20,000 monthly with a $500 tax for each kilogram of cocaine.[4]

According to ex-DEA agent Michael Levine (later her undercover partner), Atala was described as a "very beautiful but deadly woman" who could order people dead anywhere in the country.[5] Her mansion in Santa Cruz was known as the "Torture House" due to her enforcers taking in enemies and torturing them. Atala was protected by an enforcer group made of Neo-Nazi mercenaries trained by Klaus Barbie.

In the mid-1980s, a period where Atala grew too powerful, the Bolivian narco government betrayed her during a cocaine deal with the Medellin Cartel.[6] Atala was on the run from Luis Fernando Arcila Mejia ("Papa Mejia"), a Colombian drug smuggler whom Atala had refused to pay off a drug operation.[7]

Atala was present as a key witness at the trial of Luis Arce Gomez, who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges, and received a lighter sentence in return for incriminating information.[8] She is currently under a witness protection program and resides in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.[9]

Personal life

Atala married auto driver Walter "Pachi" Atala when she was 14 years old. They had four children.[10]

See also

  • Griselda Blanco
  • Illegal drug trade in Bolivia

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon6.html|title=The Consortium|website=www.consortiumnews.com}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://javierbadani.blogspot.com/2013/07/la-reina-de-la-cocaina-fue-boliviana.html|title=SUEÑOS PARA ATAR: LA REINA DE LA COCAÍNA FUE BOLIVIANA|date=18 July 2001|website=Javierbadani.blogpsot.com|accessdate=25 November 2016}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/07/the-women-of-organized-crime.html|title=The Women of Organized Crime|website=Borderlandbeat.com|accessdate=25 September 2016}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1990-01-04/news/9001170497_1_bolivian-cocaine-cocaine-trafficker-luis-arce-gomez|title=Documents: Retaliation Threatened Bolivian Charged In Cocaine Conspiracy|website=Articles.sun-sentinel.com|accessdate=25 September 2016}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg02559.html|title=[CTRL] Michael Levine - The DEA's Exiled Dissident|website=www.mail-archive.com}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2012/10/murder-miami-s-cocaine-queen-offers-teaching-moment|title=Murder of Miami’s ‘Cocaine Queen’ Offers Teaching Moment - the narcosphere|website=Narcosphere.narconews.com|accessdate=25 September 2016}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg02559.html|title=[CTRL] Michael Levine - The DEA's Exiled Dissident|website=Mail-archive.com|accessdate=25 September 2016}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/01/04/Minister-of-Cocaine-threatened-retaliation/6078631429200/|title='Minister of Cocaine' threatened retaliation|website=Upi.com|accessdate=25 September 2016}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://redtea.com/news/living-in-bolivia/|title=Living in… Bolivia|date=11 July 2014|website=Redtea.com|accessdate=25 September 2016}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://javierbadani.blogspot.com/2013/07/la-reina-de-la-cocaina-fue-boliviana.html|title=SUEÑOS PARA ATAR: LA REINA DE LA COCAÍNA FUE BOLIVIANA|date=18 July 2001|website=Javierbadani.blogpsot.com|accessdate=25 September 2016}}
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