It was May 1985, and Ramirez had only been with the Border Patrol for two and a half years.
But he also knew that at the end of that road, just before the international port of entry, was a Border Patrol station.
The Lord of the SkiesWithin a decade of that traffic stop, Amado would be the most significant drug trafficker in Mexico.
It's the border," Ford told me recently when I reached him by phone.
Ford and Amado didn't make a deal that night, but Ford said they agreed to "something tentative."