Colombia is also home to the world's scariest drug. Ten cuidado! > I woke up many hours later not knowing where I was. I stayed in bed, without pillows or blan

Colombia is also home to the world's scariest drug. Ten cuidado! > I woke up many hours later not knowing where I was. I stayed in bed, without pillows or blankets, feeling queasy and resting for a half-hour, trying to figure out what happened. At that point, I didn’t remember the lady, but I soon realized that I was at home, even though it hardly resembled my apartment — because it was empty. Everything was gone: my com­puter, my guitar, my clothing, my jewelry, about $5,000 in pesos I had hidden under my mattress, even my shampoo. There was only the bare bed and a table. > I went downstairs to the lobby. ‘‘What happened to my stuff?’’ I asked the doorman. > ‘Your mom came with a man and took your things away,’’ he said. I told him that was impossible because my mom was hundreds of miles away in Barranquilla, my hometown. ‘‘Let’s look at the surveillance video,’’ he said, explaining that I brought the woman by the day before. I had recently told the doorman of my plans to move, so he assumed she was my mother helping me out. > ‘That’s not your mom?’ he asked, standing at the video monitor and pointing to her, sounding alarmed. I still didn’t remember anything about the old woman, but then, after watching the video some more, it started to come back to me. I saw her haul my stuff out with the help of a middle-aged man, who had waited in the lobby. She was wearing one of my coats as well as an expensive pair of shoes (mine) made by a Colombian designer. > Watching the video, I saw myself come in with the woman, smiling as if everything were normal, and then I did not appear again. A doctor who checked me out later said I was given a drug nicknamed burundanga, popularly used by criminals in Colombia. He said it could have been administered through the paper the lady handed me, or perhaps some kind of aerosol. Even though my memory was wiped clean, on the video I appeared to be my everyday self. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/magazine/the-swindled-samaritan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/magazine/the-swindled-sam... https://www.vice.com/video/colombian-devil-s-breath-1-of-2 https://www.vice.com/video/colombian-devil-s-breath-1-of-2