Behind Enemy Lines: Lydia Bulas's Life Fighting the Cartel
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Lydia Bulas is the president of Lydia Bulas & Associates, a firm she has led since 2002, conducting independent reviews of anti-money laundering functions for banks and money services businesses....
show moreOn this episode of Zoomers 2 Boomers we discuss the fascinating career of criminal investigator Lydia Bulas. We discuss her background growing up in Cuba and fleeing to Miami as a child and how that led her to pursue a law enforcement career with the IRS. Lydia shares some of her most challenging cases over 15 years, including stopping drug-running operations for Pablo Escobar's cartel through an undercover sting. She also gives insights into her experiences with interrogations and going undercover herself to help take down high-level cartel members.
“I saw so many drug addicts in hospitals dying, and I didn't want that for my daughter, so I made an effort to do whatever I could to stop it.” - Lydia Bulas
This week on Zoomers 2 Boomers
- What made Lydia decide to pursue a career in law enforcement
- How the drug trade is different today than it was in the 1980s
- Whether Miami is still ground zero for money laundering
- Some of the most challenging cases that Lydia worked on and how she and her colleagues helped damage Pablo Escobar’s operations
- Lydia’s experience acting as an undercover agent, along with other female agents, and how they infiltrated the money laundering gangs
- How agents hone their interrogation skills
- Lydia’s role in the operation against Luis Javier Castano-Ochoa, a lawyer and politician believed to be the Medellin cartel’s frontman
- What kind of tactics Lydia used to follow suspects without being detected
- How much evidence they needed to collect before making an arrest, and some examples of when Lydia was able to do that
- How Lydia’s job impacted on her personal life and her relationships with her family
- Why Lydia would recommend that young people go into law enforcement
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