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Chris Mosquera
Check out this book on Goodreads: Damian Garcia: PhD Drug Smuggler http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17949735-damian-garcia
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Chris Mosquera
Check out this book on Goodreads: DAMIAN GARCIA: PhD DRUG SMUGGLER: ~Opium~Hashish~Money Laundering~ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25647090-damian-garcia
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Damian Garcia: PhD Drug Smuggler
By Chris Mosquera
This is a story of Damian Garcia, and the international drug trade in opium and hashish, by PhD graduate students in New York City, circa 1972.
It is a story of friendship, family, loyalty, and an exceedingly discreet and extremely profitable international drug smuggling business plan.
The business plan was a new combination of opium and hashish product, the family branded as O/H. The targeted demographics for O/H were graduate students at major university campuses, and nurses and doctors, attorneys, and accountants worldwide.
O/H became the professionals’ drug of choice worldwide.
The financial returns vastly exceeded their wildest imaginations, totaling in the multiple of millions of dollars. Significant monies were invested in social services by helping those in need, professional career development, and legitimate domestic and international business investments, which continue to prosper.
Money laundering is the back end of the international drug trade. Cash must be converted to income producing assets, such as real estate investments, or operating businesses. Clean money earned from these assets can then be invested in more income producing assets, and the process continues. The more wheels spinning, the harder it is for the government to track.
The combination of both opium and hashish into a high profit, higher quality product, was a true marketing genius for the time.
It took the combined brains of PhD graduate students in international business, banking, and law to put into practice what they studied in school.
If only their professors knew how talented their students truly were!
Graduate students were intellectually curious, politically liberal, pro recreational drugs, opposed to most things establishment, and definitely against the police. They were the perfect consumers for marketing the opium and hashish business plan.
O/H grew to become an international enterprise, larger than many international companies, or small nations, yet unknown to all but a few. Those that knew would never tell; that was the family code. The code has never been broken.
The mood of the country was fading from the glory of the Woodstock nation of 1969, to the realities of the Vietnam War of 1972. The music was changing, and free love was fading into free infections. America was turning from a nation of peace and love to a nation of hate, violence, hard drugs, and hard crimes.
When we first met Damian Garcia, he was a street wise man from New York City, both in spirit and attitude. Damian wore his hair long with sideburns and a mustache. He always carried a pocket watch, like the railroad conductors favored, wore wire-rimmed glasses, and his clothing was mostly jeans or dark pants, a shirt and a sports coat. His body was build lean and hungry, and he walked briskly like a man on a mission.
Damian’s draft number was 69, which meant he was front line Vietnam War fodder. Damian was a peace-loving vegetarian, and dropping napalm bombs on innocent people in a foreign land, which just happened to produce the finest marijuana, was not on his agenda.
Passport ready, Damian Garcia was ready to move to Vancouver, Canada for the rest of his life, if the alternative was going to war. Graduate school was the only deferment available, and given the circumstances, it was an excellent career choice.
He lived his life in the shadows and always below the radar.
It was safer that way.
The story is through the eyes of Damian Garcia, looking back in another day, when life was more trusting, the social and political climates were more connected, and personal relationships truly mattered.
This is their story…
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Chris Mosquera may be contacted:
Email: damiangarciathebook@gmail.com
Book Web site: www.outskirtspress.com/damiangarcia
Chris Mosquera previously published a book in 2009, through Outskirts Press: “Is Organized Labor A Decaying Business Model?” www.outskirtspress.com/chrismosquera
DAMIAN GARCIA: PHD DRUG SMUGGLER 