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SNOWING IN BALI

You left the cocaine there. Ron tells me you sniff coke on the flight. What you fucking doing with my money? You lose all the money for the operation, now the police are running behind you. You are fucking stupid. He’s really angry. And everybody is really angry, you know – me, Rafael, Greek, everybody is really angry, because it’s not a happy situation, but Marco was happy. ‘Oh, Mad Max, blah blah blah.’ Max was happy.

– Andre

They took Marco to their car to show him that day’s Jakarta Post. ‘This is real, brother, this is the Jakarta Post,’ Dimitrius said, pointing. ‘Look, look . . . Marco Archer Moreira, the fucking Brazilian drug smuggler, page one. Look!’

A Brazilian paraglider reportedly failed to smuggle in 13.7 kilos of cocaine through Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Tangerang on Saturday afternoon, but did manage to escape arrest. His whereabouts is unknown, but customs and excise officers at the airport suspect that Marco Archer Moreira fled to Bali. It is the biggest smuggling attempt of cocaine in the country this year. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.

– Jakarta Post, 4 August 2003

When he looked at the newspaper, he realised he was in trouble. In this moment he realised he had a big problem – ‘Oh, I cannot stay in La Lucciola,’ but after a couple of seconds he was back to being the same stupid guy again. ‘Ah, I go to Lombok. Carlino is going to help me.’ Carlino is the Italian guy who was supposed to receive most of the cocaine here. Carlino was also really angry, because everyone knows Marco was using drugs while bringing it.