Chasing Dictators: The unpublished story of the DEA agent that thwarted Baby Doc Duvalier and Manuel Antonio Noriega

by Casto Ocando

In 1981, DEA Special Agent Alberto Fernández, confronted the biggest challenge of his to stop cocaine traffic coming into the United States by way of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Panamá, under the protection of the upper echelons in those three countries. These are the real stories of two of the most dangerous assignments in Agent Fernández’s life. The first one, a high-risk infiltration operation at the heart of Jean-Claude Baby Doc Duvalier’s dictatorship, one of the Caribbean’s bloodiest regimes, secretly allied through the dictator’s brother-in-law with Colombian capo Pablo Escobar, honcho of the Medellín Cartel. The second one; an exhaustive investigation of Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega’s drug traffic links, in which his personal pilot was the bait. The outcome of both stories, told for the first time in this book, will surprise the reader and add elements heretofore unknown about the convoluted saga of the U.S. relations with Latin America in the 80s.

309 pages, Paperback

Published April 22, 2021