Mar. 18, 2010.) Negro Acacio said he would tell Guillermo Cochornea to authorize Gonzalo to release 100 kilograms of cocaine to the defendant for delivery to Vargas. (Trial Tr. PM Session 26-27, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas also had discussions with the defendant and told the defendant that he needed an additional 100 kilograms of cocaine because he needed money. (Trial Tr. PM Session 27, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas testified that he did receive the 200 kilograms of cocaine from the defendant and sold it in Suriname. (Trial Tr. PM Session 27-28, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas bought 150,000 AK-47 bullets, packed them, and then, as discussed with the defendant, contracted a fishing boat that transported the packages 150 miles out to sea to a second boat that took theammunition "to the coast of Venezuela to be delivered to [the defendant's] people." (Trial Tr. PM Session 28, Mar. 18, 2010.) The delivery never took place, however, and the defendant told Vargas "that the weather was bad and that the people who were working for him hadn't been able to go out." (Trial Tr. PM Session 29, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas was a shown Government's Exhibit 605, which consisted of a document identifying people who owned him money for the sale of "coke" and the amounts in United States dollars. (Trial Tr. PM Session 30-31, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas explained that, after 1999, "the price of cocaine base went up. So in order to move 500 kilos out, you needed ... 3 billion Colombian pesos. That was just too