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The world's largest cocaine producer, the real Scarface supplier, Roberto Suarez Gomez,

Whereas the 1983 film Scarface is fiction, there was someone who was then the world's largest cocaine producer who has much in common with the person who is called in the film Alejandro Sosa. In the fictional version, he is the one who supplies Al Pacino’s character Tony Montana with cocaine. In the film he lives in Cochabamba, Bolivia and is portrayed as an elegant, educated landowner. I think that the key part of the film is a meeting which brings together a Bolivian industrialist in the sugar business, the commander of an army, the interior minister and the CIA together with Sosa and Tony Montana. A recording is played in which an investigative journalist talks of the cocaine coming out of Bolivia which is controlled by one man, an interesting person who comes from a good family and British educated. In the film that is Alejandro Sosa but the description could have equally applied to the real Roberto Suarez Gomez. Whereas the film is fictional, as is the meeting, there is a certain element of truth in what is being suggested and indeed as we shall now see, the dilemma facing US authorities was whether to fight drugs or communism or maybe a bit of both or none at all. The family of Roberto Suarez Gomez had been in Bolivia for several generations. His great grandfather, Nicolás Suárez Callaú, had developed the rubber business there but with the development of synthetic rubber the family went into livestock. It was Roberto who realised that there was more money in cocaine. Roberto Suarez Gomez was born on 8 January 1932. In 1958 he married Ayda Levy Martínez and much of what we know about him comes from her book. She claims that she did not know what he did and once she found out, she left him although they stayed on good terms for many years. His business model was to to gather many Bolivian producers of coca and cocaine into one organisation, which he called "the Corporation". He took care of the business end. Business was so good that he had an annual turnover in hundreds of millions of dollars. As we see in Scarface, the cocaine was sold relatively cheaply in Bolivia with the risk of transport being on the buyer. At the end of the 1970s he developed contacts with the Colombian Medellín cartel. He had a fleet of aircraft that could fly in and out of Bolivia at leisure. By the end of the 1970s between half and two thirds of the cocaine in the US, originated from him. He was then the world's largest supplier of coca paste, a mixture of coca leaves, kerosene, sulfuric and hydrochloric acids and bicarbonate of soda that is refined in Colombia to pure cocaine. A kilogram of base then could be sold for up to USD9,000 and a light ‘plane could carry around 500 kilograms. Fearing that the civilian government of Bolivia might take action against cocaine producers,he helped fund the ‘cocaine coup’ which brought the military dictatorship of Luiz Garciz Meza to power in 1980 whilst the cousin of Suárez, became Minister of the Interior. Thus he became the "King of Cocaine" with the backing of the Argentinian secret service and the CIA – neither of which wanted to see a progressive type of government in La Paz. Following the cocaine coup, the military went through a pretence of cracking down on cocaine for the benefit of Washington but only in one geographical area. The cousin, Interior Minister, Luis Arce Gomez, warned larger operators in Santa Cruz on 26 February 1981 to move to Beni where they would have government protection. It would seem that however this disrupted supply of coca leaves to Suarez Gomez so he offered General Garcia Meza USD50m to end the Santa Cruz operation. On 19 May 1981, the crackdown abruptly ended. In the early 1980s, he was charged by the United States Attorney's office in Miami with conspiracy to import cocaine and with its importation, these charges could have got him a thirty year prison sentence. Two of his associates in jail in Miami told the United States Drug Enforcement Administration undercover agents that Suarez Gomez controlled Bolivia's military rulers so effectively that the Foreign Ministry copied and passed on to him all the agency's narcotics investigation reports in La Paz. However, he took his personal protection seriously and he set himself up with his own personal bodyguards, allegedly called the Fiances of Death. They were recruited amongst neo Fascist elements in Europe and Rhodesia. One advisor on his payroll was war criminal Klaus Barbie who then held Bolivian nationality.