Mariana van Zeller
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Podcast Appearances
realized there's a way that we can make ours different from the other.
So they started mixing it with pink coloring dye or blue and pressing it into pills with the M30 to make it look real like it's a pharmaceutical.
And they're very smart.
That's the thing about these groups.
They're all very entrepreneurial.
Miguel Angel Vega.
He's one of my very good friends.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, he's incredible.
One of his best friends was killed by the cartel, actually, in Sinaloa.
So this is a guy, Miguel, my friend, Miguel Herrera.
He's from Sinaloa.
He started as a print reporter.
The story is freaking fascinating.
He wrote a book called El Fixer, and we optioned the book, My Company.
As soon as he started writing the book, I was like, I'm optioning your book because his story is phenomenal.
But essentially, he became kind of a journalist because he wanted to be a filmmaker, like a Hollywood filmmaker.
And he was working on his film and suddenly he lost all his funding.
So it had been shot, but he wasn't able to pay for the editor to get it together.
And he needed to figure out how to finish this.