Biography
Alexander was born in Laguna, Santa Catarina, Brazil, on July 27, 1956. His mother married a railroad worker and Alexander's family moved to Novo Hamburgo, a city on the Sinos River Valley, where Alexander also attended high school. He became an entrepreneur at an early age, selling ice cream on the beach in the summer and hot peanuts door-to-door during the winter.
Alexander married a woman named either "Claire" or "Clarese" when he was fifteen or sixteen years old. At the age of seventeen, both he and his father were hospitalized as a consequence of a violent physical fight; Alexander, seeking to leave behind his personal turmoil in Brazil, joined the Israeli Army.
In 1982, Alexander, active in Nicaragua, assisted Lt. Col. Oliver North during the Iran-Contra Affair. Alexander claimed that Nicaragua was the location in which he was introduced to the drug dealing business. Later, he publicly claimed that he had been involved in drug dealing since 1979.
Alexander has been known as "O barão da cocaina" in Brazil (translated into English as "The Baron of Cocaine").
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