Others are convinced that the Cardinal was involved with drug trafficking and, as a reckoning, the Arellano Felix or El Chapo decided to end his life. He's there to witness the sniper shot that leaves Escobar badly wounded, and also to see a member of Search Bloc shoot the drug lord dead in cold blood. Netflix's Narcos has probably been responsible for teaching more Americans about Colombian history than decades of Discovery documentaries combined (and the same for Mexico with its spinoff Narcos: Mexico). The far smaller M-19 (pictured) gets far more attention, and when FARC does turn up in season three, the group is described as being made up of "farmers" who are good at kidnapping but otherwise a negligible part of the drug scene. Real Life Portrayals in Narcos (37 items) list by Stehako. Who'd have thought it? As showrunner Eric Newman toldThe Hollywood Reporterwhen asked about the truthfulness of the episode, "That was invented in terms of the content." Shortly after, he began advising the cartel on certain issues before graduating to their head of security. According to Salcedo, Yusti was a "nervous, jittery type," who was simply "plain and balding, with a bad combover" (via the Internet Archive). Some of the historical inaccuracies in the series: While watching Narcos: Mexico 3, you might have gotten the impression that everything narrated in the series is true. "At that point in time, Jorge was barricaded up inside of his house with his wife and family for fear they were going to come looking for him to try to kill them," says Feistl. But while Los Pepes were fact, the wedding bombing itself was pure fiction. Throughout the series it is mentioned that Professor Carlos Hank Gonzlez was the one who appointed Colosio as the future president, and who was allegedly behind his assassination. I don't know, but if you say "Navegante" three times fast, he appears. The problem is the wall was so thick that we broke two or three drill bits and we ran out of drill bits. One of the Tijuana Cartel's men, Jesus Alberto Bayardo Robles, El Gory, declared that after the search was over, his bosses sent him to buy plane tickets to Tijuana on May 24, 1993, the day of the Cardinal's murder. So, once again, several of the stories told by Andrea Nuez's character throughout the third season of Narcos: Mexico seem more like a fictional tale than a portrait of the reality of drug trafficking in Mexico. In reality,. Apparently watching Narcos is like trying to watch an alternate-reality version of Downton Abbey where all the British characters are voiced by Mary Poppins-era Dick van Dyke. Much has been said about the assassination of what would surely be the future president of Mexico. The Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. While the authorities claimed that the Cardinal arrived at the airport in a car that was the same model and color as the one El Chapo was driving, the catholic community and Mexican citizens pointed out that if the gunshots were as close as previously reported, then it was practically impossible to have confused the two men. Hours after the death of Cardinal Posadas was made public, the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) published their official statement where it was established that the Cardinal had been killed when he was caught in a crossfire between the Arellano Felix and Joaquin El Chapo Guzman Cartels. ", What the third season zeroed in on, however, was the DEA's dealings with Salcedo and in fact, the Cali insider was only playing for both teams for a short amount of time. It is said that prior to the incident, the Arellano Felix family had been living in Guadalajara for a month while they were looking for El Chapo. According to the character of Andrea Nuez, the journalist of La Voz media outlet and main narrator of the series, Luis Donaldo Colosio's progressive discourse had turned him into a threat to those who had elected him as a candidate. The truth is that the politician Carlos Hank has never been mentioned by authorities as one of those involved in this case, as the series points out, and the versions used by the production of Narcos: Mexico are openly modified to hook the audience into a classic cops and robbers story. And then they shouldn't wonder if the only time we grabbed Amado was me.. Narcos also introduced a handful of other casualties left behind in the wake of the Cali godfathers. He died of a stroke under house arrest at the age of 79. Months after he took up his new position, an investigation was launched against him after an informant reported that he had moved into a "luxury apartment, the rent of which would be impossible to pay with the public servant salary he received". > Click Here, The Truth About Notorious Hitman Jorge 'Rivi' Ayala, How Woody Harrelson found out his dad was a hitman, Mickey Featherstone: The Dangerous Hitman Currently Free In, The First American President To Be Assassinated, How I Made A Necklace With 3000 Individual Diamonds & Sapphires, Alex Murdaugh Makes Chilling Admission About Wife & Son He Murdered, Balancing On Bottles, Human Barbells & More | Extreme Workouts #extremeworkout #shorts, Pete Townshends Real Feelings About Mick Jagger #shorts #RollingStones #MickJagger, Cute Little Hidradenitis Bumps in Armpit! But yeah there is a book and also an interview by Jorge Velasquez Vasquez "El Navegante" who betrayed Gacha then later strarted working with . The age of consent in Colombia is 14, but still. Probably not, but that felt like the kind of thing that we could do in the context of our story. When Pachoeventually surrendered in 1997, that's when Feistlleft Colombia. As you've probably guessed, though, there's no evidence that Tata was anything but totally onboard with what Pablo was doing. So the showrunners compromised. "Miguel Rodriguez ended up getting arrested in August of 1995 just six weeks later, so we were only talking and working with Jorge for the two months. Recently appointed as Anti-Drug Czar, Gutierrez Rebollo participated in the elaboration of the counter-narcotics strategy that would be launched jointly from the White House and Mexican presidential house, Los Pinos, in February 1997. So, who really murdered Hctor Flix, El Gato, the founder of the Zeta Weekly? How Feistl and his partner (whose name was changed for the show since he is still an active DEA agent) met up withSalcedo on the show was accurate. Or should we say, he liked the girls. https://www.gorillaconvict.com/2015/04/the-beginning-of-the-mexican-cartels/, https://www.forbes.com/sites/doliaestevez/2013/10/01/was-mexican-fugitive-caro-quintero-the-first-billionaire-drug-lord/, http://reportecatolicolaico.com/2018/08/alberto-sicilia-falcon-el-baron-de-las-drogas/, http://articles.latimes.com/1985-06-18/news/mn-3197_1_caro-quintero, Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win, Elaine Shannon, United States-Mexican Cooperation in Narcotics Control Efforts , Volume 4, https://www.dea.gov/fugitives/sergio-espino-verdin, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/08/13/drug-suspect-held-in-dea-agents-slaying/72f76949-69b4-46c1-a84d-aa68764cfc7a/, https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/anatomy-of-a-drug-cartel/. It's a way for Narcos to explore two different types of drug dealers, and it helps explain the animosity between the two cartels. In the Netflix series, he is portrayed as a cold-blooded killer, who is willing to do the immoral activities that Jorge Salcedo will not. Jose Antonio Ortega Sanchez, the lawyer for the Archbishop of Guadalajara, assured that this group was made up of members of the Federal Judicial Police and that El Chino had confessed to him that there were actually three armed groups at the airport: the two Cartels and a group made up of alleged state agents. "One of the main things, going back to Pablo, was that a lot of that cocaine traffic was going up that Caribbean corridor into Florida," explains Feistl. The real life Jorge Salcedo wasn't an innocent trapped in a morally gray world. At the beginning of this season, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who at the time was the leader of the Juarez Cartel and is otherwise known as The Lord of the Skies, can be seen flying a small plane filled to the brim with cocaine. This led to think that the Cardinal had indeed been the main target. Giving all the questioning, the PGR introduced a second version. A pair of ultra right-wing paramilitaries who turned to extreme violence after guerrillas killed their father, they turn up in season two determined to paint the town red. It was only when a newspaper resurfaced his conviction for cocaine possession that Escobar finally got the Congressional boot. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. At one point, so many undesirables were dumped in the Cauca that the cost of removing the bodies bankrupted a downriver municipality. Hector Yusti. grunge.com - S. Flannagan 305d. We've all seen that photo of him dead on the Internet the only question is what depths he will plumb before the bullet finally catches him. The end of season three sets the show on track to follow the drug war to the next "real" threat of Mexico. Feistlarrived in Cali mid-1994, about six months after Pablo Escobar was gunned down and Cali had taken over. Although the PGR insists that the Cardinal died at the hands of hitmen of the Tijuana Cartel, mistaking him for El Chapo, the Mexican Catholic Church assures that he was the victim of a State crime and, together with the Vatican, has expressed its disagreement with the investigation and continues to press for justice in the case. "He said, 'Im not going anywhere. Dont get involved and stay away from this kind of life. I think the DEA guys did that they have some information that somebody killed him, I don't know how All I did that night was go to my most secure location to secure my most beloved possession on earth, which is my family. Well, apart from the bit where they miss out all his insane connections to paramilitaries, white supremacists, military hardliners, and his pre-Cali role in masterminding assassination attempts (via NACLA). In fact, he went into hiding right after Kiki's kidnapping and was never found until 1989. Speaking to Hollywood Reporter, real-life DEA agent Chris Feistl explained that Salcedo was holed up in fear of his life when the real Navegante died, and we still don't know who pulled the trigger. The real son of Miguel Rodriguez, William not only didn't die in a hail of bullets but according to theMiami Herald, is also mighty annoyed Narcos thinks he did. Below, Feistlanswers some of THR's most burning questions about the stranger-than-fiction, real-life events that played out on the season. Fun fact, Aguilar Guajardo was the owner of a nightclub named Premier in Mexico City and of the world-famous Lido cabaret in Paris. The story Narcos: Mexico 3 tells us about Aguilar Guajardo's death seems to be rather false, just as the business dealings between the Juarez Cartel and the PRI politician Carlos Hank. Rumors indicate that there was never a confrontation between the two Cartels. Colombia Reports notes the fire that destroyed Escobar's records likely came from military rockets. In her book The Lords of the Narco, journalist Anabel Hernndez mentions that the Cardinal's death "powerfully called" the attention of Amado Carrillo, who could not believe that his people were involved in the murder. ", As for his portrayal, Feistl called Stahl-David a perfectionist. So when you walked back in, it looked just like a dresser. Information found in the media indicates that soldiers tortured Amado Carrillo Fuentes so much that he could not breathe well, which lead to Deputy Attorney General Coello Trejo opting to transfer him to the Federal Attorney General's Office, where he ordered that a cell be adapted as an intensive care unit to save Carrilos life. So the North Valley cartel thought, 'Hey, I can avoid extradition. But thats the genesis and how that story came to be. 0. Escobar really had put a price on the heads of Murphy and his family. First of all, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo was not associated with Amado Carrillo Fuentes. Most of Narcos' poetic license is used to make real events more interesting, but not this time. Everything points to the fact that the scriptwriters decided to use Hank as a sort of character to be blamed for all the legends and rumors of the PRI political system in Mexico at that time, with the certainty that there would be no legal consequences because he is no longer alive, which is why Hank could not accuse them of defamation. The fourth episode of Narcos centers around one of the major incidents of the Colombian civil war: the 1985 Palace of Justice siege in Bogota. Though many viewers went into the first two seasons knowing details about Pablo Escobar, Cali was a lesser-known story. At the distance, a fleet of Army jeeps and pickup trucks can be seen, led by General Jos Gutirrez Rebollo. In Spanish direct object pronouns are used in a similar way with one key difference: Instead of putting the direct object behind the verb, in Spanish we usually put in front of the verb. A critical turning point in Narcos' second season comes when the Medellin cartel detonates a bomb at a Cali cartel wedding party. If you're a native English speaker, chances are you've never paid much attention to the accents in Narcos, beyond thinking, "Yep, that sure sounds like Spanish." One mystery that still remains is the murder of the sicario Navegante(Juan Sebastian Calero) on Narcos. Almost 30 years after his death, many questions remain unanswered: Who killed the Cardinal? Jose de Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo was a Mexican military officer who reached the rank of Major General and commanded for 7 years the Fifth Military Region (Aguascalientes, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Zacatecas) based in Jalisco. Amado Carrillo Fuentes was really arrested when he was a lieutenant of Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, one of the founders of the Jurez Cartel, an interesting fact, since in the series it seems that The Lord of the Skies was already the leader of the cartel. Although Murphy was sent out to ID the body at which point he took his infamous photo of Escobar's corpse Pablo had already been dead for a while when he arrived. But there is one area where TV Pablo is shown to have something like morals: his family. In fact, the chemistry between actors Diego Tinoco and Sierra Capri is so intense that many viewers have questioned whether . 38 Watched . What's more, his alleged ties to the Juarez Cartel seem to be groundless. The former agent made it clear that he and the real Berna had almost nothing to do with one another. Obviously, that list is very, very short. But if you're from Colombia? This is a big, crazy guy with big, crazy appetites. Gutierrez Rebollo even pointed out that it was General Enrique Cervantes, Secretary of Mexican National Defense, the one who received the 60-million-dollar bribe from Amado Carrillo Fuentes in 1997. In an interview with Hollywood Reporter, the real Steve Murphy explained Connie had stayed in Colombia the entire time. The real Chris Feistl discusses what is true and what is fiction, and sheds insight on Season 4. "I gave them a tour of the city, showed them where actual houses and events took place, where the bloque of the Colombian national police actually was and where we did surveillances from. Formed in 1964, FARC started out as a gang of impoverished men who wanted to carve out their own state separate from Colombia. The reason is that Berna only had a relationship with Search Bloc itself and not the DEA. 0,00 . Nothing. Coello Trejo's statements prove that the spectacular start of the third season of Narcos: Mexico is false. How much of 'Narcos' Season 3 really happened? Resident On My Block couple Cesar Diaz and Monse Finnie broke our hearts at the end of Season 2 when they once again went their separate ways following the whole Paula scandal.But it's clear to fans that these two are endgame despite their complicated dating history. Cesar Chavez Chavez, who was a farm labourer himself, grew up in a family of Mexican American descent. Rockets were used. The government? I think he felt that he was involved in something and was a part of and belonged to something.". This was an even bigger issue when you realize that the script absolutely nailed 1980s paisa slang, which, in Moura's Brazilian twang, now entered the uncanny valley. Per the version of events recorded in William C. Rempel's "At the Devil's Table," Jorge Salcedo was gifted some much-neededtime in his effort to prevent the murder of Guillermo Pallomari thanks to one of Cesar Yusti's habits: abruptly going missing for days on end, with no explanation (per theInternet Archive). So he and his partner used Salcedo's intel to approach Pallomari's wife, Patricia, at her workplace and explain that Cali had a hit out on her husband. But not all of them. The control of the Tijuana plaza fell upon Javier Caro Payn, one of Rafael Caro Quintero's cousins after the fall of the Guadalajara cartel. His death at the season's climax, though, was handled strangely. Yeah idk either.I was just reading Chris Feistl's interview for Narcos, and he said real Navegante was Cesar Yusti, who IRL was not killed by DEA, they had nothing with it. All Rights Reserved. There were many hardworking, honest Colombian national police and military personnel that we worked with, but often times that information has to be briefed up and you never know who is hearing or receiving that information. At one stage, they owned a bank in Panama together, and both were equally instrumental in the "Death to Kidnappers" project to hit back at guerrilla groups, which is something Narcos depicts as completely excluding Cali. What is clear is that, almost 28 years later, there are still many doubts about the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio and many rumors that point to several politicians of the time as those responsible. Most recent. by | Jun 16, 2022 | digestive system pogil answer key | lyudmila ignatenko second child | Jun 16, 2022 | digestive system pogil answer key | lyudmila ignatenko second child can kira use bites the dust on himself; sunnova google reviews. But while David wanted to be his father's muscle, William was a lawyer who stayed away from the grisly side of cartel life. He called military and police authorities and demanded the presence of Hctor Palma, El Gero, a friend and associate of El Chapo. But that's not because they were more urbane than Escobar's men. There are those who claim that Cardinal Posadas was in the wrong place at the wrong time and that his death was nothing more than a sad accident. 72 days after being named Anti-Drug Czar, Gutierrez Rebollo became the first Mexican Army General to be sentenced for having a direct relationship with drug trafficking. Standing in the ruins of his home, the real Martinez was offered $6 million to stop fighting Escobar. With this purchase, Carlos Hank Rohn became the majority shareholder of the group. But while you might have assumed the alliance between Pena and Don Berna was fictionalized for the sake of narrative simplicity, you probably wouldn't have assumed that it was entirely made up. In 87 to 89, they really exploited that Mexican corridor and it was because of NAFTA and the Juarez cartel that they were able to push a lot of cocaine into Mexico on those huge 747 flights theyd land in the desert and offload six, eight, 10 tons or more of cocaine and then bring back these huge cash shipments to Cali. Either because of money or threats, a magistrate decided to release the capo, arguing that the crime of arms stockpiling was invalid because Amado Carrillo Fuentes managed to obtain that number of weapons "over the years" and not for reasons related to drug trafficking. Martinez is still alive today, but Narcos was right that Escobar tried his damnedest to murder him. According to theGuardian, the Cali cartel at one point hired a British mercenary to bomb Escobar's estate from a military attack helicopter. And meanwhile, here I am ending my life for something I'm not even sure I did.". Negotiations for the NAFTA began in 1990 and not 1989, and it was ratified in 1994. A literal one in this case, as Jorge Salcedo takes decisive action and shoots Navegante dead after the killer spots him waiting outside the home of his target, Guillermo Pallomari. In December 1996, Gutirrez Rebollo was named head of the National Institute for the Fight against Drugs, earning him the nickname "Anti-Drug Czar". In fact, when the attack began, the Arellano Felix brothers fled by plane and El Chapo left the premises in a car. The hit Netflix show "Narcos," with three seasons and three more of the ongoing spin-off "Narcos: Mexico," has given audiences a visceral account of the real-life wars of South America's most ruthless and violent drug cartels. This weekly was founded by Jess Blancornelas, presented in the series as Ramn Salgado, and by Hctor Flix, known by his nickname El Gato. Cali opened the door and the North Valley kind of kicked it through. Like the fictional David, William was involved in the family business. The truth is that Colosio's assassination is surrounded by doubts and inconsistencies, perhaps now more than ever. Elected in 1982, Escobar was allowed into the Liberal Party thanks to a corrupt senator named Alberto Santofimio. However, they never managed to meet because the Cardinal was assassinated before getting out of his car, where he was shot 14 times between his legs and chest. He was gunned down by a North Valley member. His real name was Cesar Yusti. To their credit, these actors mostly attempted local accents. While some of these tweaks are minor, others are like watching a "historically accurate" Lincoln biopic open with Honest Abe taking part in a shirtless rap battle. After Dec. 17, 1997, extradition was in play in Colombia for Colombia nationals who committed crimes after that date. Feistl's history in Colombia provides some hints as to what the show would tackle if it stayed in Colombia, namely by turning its eye to the No. Well, one of the reasons it was so odd was because the writers did with the plot what any good mule would do with a condom full of Escobar's marching powder: They pulled it out their butts. The real-life Colonel Carrillo was Colonel Hugo Martinez. By the time he was killed he had been appointed Rome's . cesar yusti real life Best Selling Author and International Speaker. Ft Lauderdale, E Sunrise Blvd 5 Chairs 7 OP's Dental Office with Real Estate for Sale. At the time, M19 were considered a bigger threat than ELN, and maybe even more so than FARC. TheAssociated Press reported on the peace deal. The murder of Hctor Flix Miranda, El Gato, founder of the Zeta Weekly, The death of Cardinal Posadas: accident or assassination? In fact, it was General Antonio Riviello Bazan, former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's Secretary of National Defense, who had Carrillo Fuentes in custody. "That really opened our eyes to the corruption that we were dealing with there.". According to Salcedo, his assumption was that Yusti's extended disappearances were related to far-flung murderous assignments out of town an assumption based on the words of Yusti himself. 30, 2021 10:08 am EDT Spoiler warning: this article contains spoilers for "Narcos" Season 3. Additionally, the brothers had an 8 year old friend alongside when the incident happened. Until the last day of his life, General Gutierrez Rebollo maintained that he was innocent and that his arrest was purely politically motivated. As soon as Pablo Acosta was removed, Amado Carillo Fuentes assumed uncontested control of the Ojinaga Plaza. Due to the incredible version, the PGR's new hypothesis caused even more doubts in the public. He said, 'Yes, thats a possibility,'" he says. The death of Cardinal Juan Jess Posadas Ocampo is considered a key moment in the history of the Narco in Mexico. It appeared that Yusti's sharpshooting abilities were certainly in high demand. Apparently after torturing him for several hours, Riviello called Javier Coello Trejo, then Deputy Attorney General in charge of combating drug trafficking, to tell him that the Army had arrested the drug lord and ask him to pick up Amado at Military Camp 1, so that he could be taken in and brought to justice. "It was so well-constructed and so well hidden, that had he gotten into it, we would still be looking for that caleta," he says of the "phenomenally well-made" closet built into the closet in the master bedroom. As viewers, it would be difficult to doubt what we watched in the series. Introduced in season two, Don Berna is a major player in the Medellin crime scene, despite never seeming to set foot outside his favorite cafe. When asked about the show's "embellishments," Salcedo said he understood that the real story had been dramatized, but there was still an element of truth to the more gruesome violence depicted on screen. Warner Moura, for example, spent three months living in Medellin, trying to get the Escobar accent down. Gutierrez Rebollo even comments that he did what he had to do to get things done. "Because of who his father was, he was able to act or get away with certain things. Eww. First, the newspaper La Voz does not exist. "Both those guys said I would be a good resource to speak to, and also because of William Rempels book At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down Cali."