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s one of the most influential and reliable links in the lucrative Mexican drug-smuggling chain, Eduardo El Escorpion Lopez didn’t have to leave his heavily-guarded gran finca in Ciudad Rio Grande very often. He tolerated the long ride to Reynosa in his up-armored Mercedes GLS because he was confronted with a situation that demanded his personal attention.
Eduardo Lopez ran a network of cross-border couriers and contracted his services to the heavy-hitters in the cartels. He was an important middleman between the drug suppliers in the south and distributors in the north. El Escorpion was a kingpin in that aspect of the transportation business, managing a string of reliable mules that stretched along the border from El Paso to Brownsville. It was a lucrative business that he’d bui
