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223 Voodoo & Black Magic. Being a DEA Agent in Miami During the 80s and 90s & Later Battling Drug Cartels in Mexico, W/ Author & DEA Special Agent Jaime Forza (Ret) (Part One).


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Welcome to part one of my special two-episode conversation with Author and retired DEA Special Agent Jaime Forza! Here are just some of Jaime’s career highlights. 

After serving eight years in the U.S. Navy, Jaime joined the U.S. Department of Defense, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) as a Special Agent serving for two years. In 1989, he became a Special Agent with the DEA, first in Charleston, South Carolina, then transferred to the Miami Field Division. He took part in numerous undercover and covert operations and was deployed on assignment to Operation Just Cause in Panama in 1990.

In 1996, the DEA transferred Jaime to Merida, Mexico, Resident Office, where he later promoted to Resident Agent in Charge. In this role, he played a crucial part in the dismantling of the Juarez Cartel drug enterprise. 

In 2009, he was promoted and reassigned to the Office of Global Enforcement, Special Projects Branch. In this role, he served as the Senior Military Advisor for Narco-Terrorism at the U.S. Southern Command Headquarters.

In 2013, DEA selected Jaime as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Miami Field Division. In this role, he managed domestic enforcement and oversaw the daily operations of the division's foreign-based component in the Bahamas and its forward air operating bases. Jaime was subsequently appointed to Senior Executive.

On December 5, 2024, Jaime released his book, THE RULES OF KONGO : A Psychological Crime Thriller Inspired by Actual Events. This book can be described as a dark, psychological crime thriller with supernatural elements.

I really enjoyed my time with Jaime and we have a lot in common. 

In today’s episode we discuss:

·      Growing up in Brooklyn, New York.

·      What are mafia fires? 

·      The neighborhood Bruha.

·      Moving to Puerto Rico when he was in high school.

·      His biggest influences as a young child and teen?

·      Why he joined the Navy at 16 years of age and later became a N.C.I.S. agent?

·      His path to joining the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

·      Being a DEA Agent in the 1980s/90s in Miami.

·      Travelling to Panama and taking part in Operation Just Cause, arresting General Manuel Antonio Noriega.

·      The pros and cons of working as a DEA agent in Mexico.

 All of this and more on today’s episode of the Cops and Writers podcast.

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