I'm not sure if you ever watched Breaking Bad?

89 was when Gus and Max, the Chilean chemist, try to get in with Eladio.

Gus moved to Mexico in 86 and got a visa to the US in 89. It's said that not only was he a "generalissimo" in Pinochet's Chile, but there are also no records of him there, implying that he worked off the books. We know that Pinochet was running cocaine labs in the 80s, working to produce a "black cocaine" that could go undetected and be extracted back into pure cocaine once it reached its destination.

We can take it as a fact that Gus was a killer in Chile, and I happen to take it a step further and assume that he was involved in the black cocaine scheme. Black coke, blue meth, it just all lines up nicely.