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He outlines how he effectively became "Manny," a clandestine smuggler and businessman, with fake warehouses, undercover bank accounts, and even fake assets like boats and private planes paid for indirectly by the cartel. Suarez emphasizes the delicate psychological dance involved—waiting for cartel members to come to him, playing hard to get, leveraging their greed and desperation to establish trust, and gradually escalating to large-scale cocaine smuggling.