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OPERATION PLAYBOY 2

have a big party – drugs, girls, dinner. For me the party was not that great, because I don’t like to stay in the favelas, it’s a different class of people, but for the other guys, wow, party, girls. And the police can’t come into the favelas.

Why?

Because these people would shoot them. There are many thousands of small houses and most of the people who live there are robbers, drug dealers, all criminals, all kinds. And if the police try to come, these people will shoot with big guns, bang, bang, bang.

– Andre

Andre stayed in Brazil, still dealing, hiding out and living well, but the image he’d created for himself and relished, as a respectable and high-flying entrepreneur, was now a shattered relic. Chief Caieron had made sure his story blitzed the news.

According to the Federal Police, Andre Mendes is associated with much of the cocaine trafficked from Brazil to Europe, where it is traded for synthetic drugs like ecstasy and LSD, which are brought to Brazil by mules.

– The News, 19 November 2004

In Brazil, they call me the biggest exporter of cocaine from South Brazil to Europe. This is fucking stupid, because the people who put it in containers are ten times bigger. They catch me, and try to make me like an example for the society. The guy did university, the guy has money, the big restaurant, but now he’s in jail because he’s a drug dealer. It’s fucking bullshit.

– Andre

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