Mexico, a U.S.
-Mexico border city of Juarez.
It is just across the Rio Grande from the city of El Paso, Texas, USA.
Juárez is an important border crossing in Mexico and the last stop for many smugglers, and in a few decades, it will become a city controlled by Mexican drug traffickers, who die thousands of victims each year.
But now Juárez's drug dealers are far less arrogant than they were later, and they are now just drug distributors who rely on Colombians to snort and are responsible for the last link in the American drug trade, which is to send cocaine to Texas across the river.
At this moment, Ivankov was riding through the streets of Juarez in a Mercedes-Benz bulletproof car, and the low buildings on both sides of the street made Ivankov look down on this small border town in his heart.
But it was Seryosha who came here to mean it, and Ivankov couldn't help it.
Ivankov entered the country on a Spanish passport, and the purpose of his visit was to establish some branches of the Gorky Brotherhood here.
In recent times, Seryosha's original big client, Escobar, has had a lot of problems, and he seems to be obsessed with arguing with the new president of Colombia and has been expanding his armed forces.
This has left the original drug business somewhat abandoned.
The business of helping Escobar launder money was originally one of the most stable incomes of the Gorky Brotherhood, but now Escobar could not calm down to take care of his own business, which affected the interests of the Gorky Brotherhood.
Although Valentin's arms business is doing well, arms are not the main business of the Gorky Brotherhood after all, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Given the current situation, the Gorky Brotherhood had to find new stable large customers.
Since the Mexicans got the tunneling equipment and related technology exported by the Soviet Union, the sales of cocaine began to soar, and there was a faint tendency to become another Cali group.
Depending on the situation, Seryosha decided to move some of his past business in the United States to Mexico, such as Yuri's former casino business, and the banking business, which the Gorky Brotherhood was best at.
Ivankov's good partner Yuri is enjoying his newlywed in Switzerland with his wife, and he doesn't plan to go out of the mountains for the time being, so this time Ivankov can only make a trip to Mexico by himself.
The purpose of Ivankov's trip was to establish a financial branch in the small city of Juárez, mainly engaged in lending and foreign exchange.
It's just that their customers include Mexican gangs in addition to ordinary Mexicans.
Ivankov will lend money to these gangs, and it doesn't matter what they do after they get the money, Ivankov just needs to return it with interest within the specified period.
Ivankov is not worried that there are unsightly gangs who dare to repay their debts, the battle of Guantanamo made Ivankov famous, and if that gang dares to make a mistake, it must first weigh whether it is qualified compared to the US troops in Guantanamo.
Ivankov bought a property near the largest church in Ciudad Juárez, and in addition to buying a farm on the outskirts of the city, Ivankov did not have any idyllic plots, but wanted to transfer the mercenary unit he had built up in the past to the farm.
In the attack on Guantanamo, Ivankov's 500-strong army was the only one to rely on among all the troops involved.
After the Guantanamo incident, those mercenaries returned to Colombia with the large army, and now the situation in Colombia is becoming more and more serious, in order to prevent this force from being used by Escobar, and at the same time in Mexico also needs an armed force that obeys his orders, so taking the opportunity to open up the Mexican market, Ivankov brought this army to Juarez.
They were placed in a security company called International Risk Consulting, where they lived as employees.
Like the United States, Mexico is also a country of immigrants, but under the aura of the United States, Mexico is rarely favored by immigrants.
However, for those Soviet citizens who defected from the battlefields of Afghanistan, it is better to settle down in Mexico than to settle down in Mexico because of their status, subject to the surveillance of the U.S. government, and restrictions on their lives and work.
Besides, if you want to go to the United States, you only need to drive two hours to the other side of the river.
With the presence of an international risk consulting company, Ivankov can settle down and do what Seryosha has to say.
In the small city of Juarez, the name of the Bank of Colombia was too ostentatious, so Ivankov's financial institution planned to set up a separate sign, the name of the company, which was called the Aztec Bank, because Central America, including Mexico, was the birthplace of Aztec civilization.
According to Seryosha's opinion, in the future, this bank will gradually take over the business of the Gorky Brotherhood in offshore financial centers in the Caribbean, including Panama, the British Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands, and in addition, the capital exchanges with Colombian drug lords will gradually transition to the hands of the Aztec Bank.
Although much of the work has not yet begun, the international risk consulting firm has received a tilt in the resources of the Gorky Brotherhood.
Because of the friendly relations between Mexico and the United States, international risk consulting companies can directly buy the high-quality products of American fire, and Ivankov ordered military-standard firearms, military vehicles, and even two helicopter gunships from the United States in the name of international risk consulting.
Suffice it to say that this private security company was built entirely to the standards of the military.
Ivankov's car drove out of town on the highway to the U.S. border, and on the way, Ivankov used the OTA phone he had just bought to call his business partner in El Paso.
After confirming the time and place, Ivankov hung up.
When the car entered the United States, Ivankov saw his business partners at a scrapped car disposal plant on the outskirts of El Paso, but Ivankov didn't like these people very much, because they were all people.
Yes, Ivankov is now cooperating, because he has come to believe that Ivankov is a Solidarity person, and a few months ago Walesa personally sent an adviser to the American side admitted that Ivankov and Yuri are both high-ranking cadres in the service of Solidarity.
Now that he has this relationship, Seryosha must of course make good use of it, and he wants to build an army loyal to him under the noses of the Americans. t1706231537: