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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: THE REAL ,MR BIG -- THE TRUE STRORY OF THE COLUMBIAN BUSINESS GENIUS REFUGEE WHO BECAME THE UK'S COCAINE KINGPIN
Description: The Real Mr. Big: How a Colombian Refugee Became the United Kingdom’s Most Notorious Cocaine Kingpin
By
Ron Chepesiuk,
Jesus Ruiz Henao
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Born in 1960, Jesus Ruiz Henao grew up poor, but wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw growing up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia’s Valle of the Cauca. To realize his ambition, Ruiz Henao moved to London, United Kingdom, in 1985. There he and his wife settled in the quiet suburb of Hendon, where he held down mundane but respectable cl...