May 25, 2025

224 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 Two)

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Welcome everyone to the conclusion 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.

In today’s episode we discuss:

· Cocaine coming from Colombia to Mexico and then the United States. How did they smuggle it, and how much?

· Drug submarines that were assembled in the jungle?

· The Juarez cartel.

· Operation Panama Express.

· Working UC in America and overseas. Scariest moments and most fulfilling.

· Santeria priests and priestesses or other “black magic/voodoo”. Putting spells on witnesses attempting to tie their tongue in knots in court, making drug dealers invisible to LE.

· Palo Mayabme dark magic / Voodoo dolls.

· What is your advice for someone who wants to become a DEA agent? How should they prepare?

· Jaimie’s book, THE RULES OF KONGO : A Psychological Crime Thriller Inspired by Actual Events.

· Jaimie’s answer to the illegal drug problem in America.

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

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