Victor M. Roselló was born in Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone. The son of a career Army Noncommissioned Officer, he studied at the University of Puerto Rico and received his US Army officer commission in 1974. After a 30 year career, he retired as a US Army Colonel, intelligence officer, and Latin America Foreign Area Officer. During his career he served as a military advisor to the Salvadoran and Colombian Armed Forces and combat parachuted into Panama with the 82nd Airborne Division during the 1989 invasion. Other assignments included intelligence advisor and liaison officer for the US Ambassador in El Salvador, Hon. Edwin Corr, military advisor for US Ambassador in Colombia, Hon. Anne Patterson, military liaison and language interpreter for Vatican Archbishop, Jose Sebastian Laboa, at the front gate of the Papal Embassy during the 1989 US invasion of Panama, and language interpreter and Latin American specialist for numerous military commanding officers, US congressmen, secretaries of defense, and foreign heads of state. In five years of military-related travels, he accrued 1 million 350,000 frequent flyer miles in his trips to Latin America and the Caribbean. An Army Ranger and Master Parachutist, he graduated from the US Army Command and General Staff College, School of Advanced Military Studies, and the US Army War College. He has a Master of Arts degree in Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies from the University of Chicago. During his military career he wrote and published sixteen articles on various professional military topics. In 2010, he published his first book, "East of the Orteguaza: The Story of an American Military Advisor and the Colombian Drug War." A Spanish translation of this book will be published in 2011. Today, he is a professional writer for the US Army and a guest speaker on the Colombian drug war. He currently lives in Hampton, Virginia.