Patrick Salgado Souza Martins sat at the crest of the hillside favela he once ruled and described the dream that changed his life.
A choir of angels surrounded the convicted drug lord as he dozed in solitary confinement. Glistening water bubbled up from the ground. “I woke up in panic, covered in goosebumps,” said Martins, then one of Rio’s most infamous criminal minds.
