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Chad arrived back at the safe house in Comuna 13 with Sánchez’s cell phone number and his promise to never be away from it for the next forty-eight hours.
He checked in with Fred for his final assignments.
Daniela’s people would already be in place throughout the neighborhood—and another, thinner layer in the adjacent neighborhoods. Her enforcers were crossing the great divide of the Medellín River as it ran through the center of the city and the Aburrá Valley. La Capitana controlled the eastern flanks and el Clan del Golfo the west. An uneasy and—according to Daniela—unspoken truce had the troops rarely crossing the central dividing line. Today they had crossed it in force. Unfamiliar with the territory of the city’s west flank, they were given very specific stations.
The only trul
