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Forty years of narco culture in the Americas and all the windows looking in are busted. Come see for yourself: four decades of shattered glass, long hats, severed limbs, perfect whiskers, rotten blood. Two foul score of outrageous fortune and untimely ends.
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Rashotte, R. (2015). Two Foul Score of the Brothers Almada. In: Narco Cinema. Latino Pop Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137489241_3
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