'' The Power of the Dog '' starts in 1975 and follows the DEA 's War on Drugs and various aspects of Operation Condor , with CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking being central to the book 's plot . It includes the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and its far reaching consequences for Mexico into the plot , and portrays the Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio 's murder in Tijuana on March 23 , 1994 . Aspects and some of the resolutions of the Cristero War are also mentioned
1985 Mexico City earthquake
1985 Mexico City earthquake
The Power of the Dog