fucking narcos. my friend asked me to watch it so i finally did and it’s like 80% bullshit. just complete far right propaganda. they start off implying that allende accepted drug dealers into chile and that it took pinochet to clean it up. that’s fucking bullshit. that’s the worst slander in this entire fucking series. there was no cockroach. pinochet loved drug dealers. pinochet combined chemical weapons research with drug production, then sold the product on planes to america and europe so he could buy guns to sell to iraq and iran. pinochet’s government sponsored the fucking cocaine coup in bolivia, where nazis and drug dealers joined up to creat their own narco state that was so horrifically brutal and violent that it collapsed within a year. pinochet wasn’t tried when he came to england because everybody who worked for him now works for BAE systems in assessing how good their weapons will be at killing peasants in other third world nations. the very implication that anything that pinochet did was in the minutest way good for the world or for chile is horrific and desipicable and pure bullshit. escobar wasn’t ignorant to cocaine either. my grandma did cocaine in the polish resistance to the nazis in the 1940s. cocaine didn’t just fall out of a plane somewhere, escobar would have known what it was. and not only that, but he got his start in the business in 1975, way earlier, because he knew peruvian indigenous peasants grew the shit and chewed it anyways and wouldn’t charge nearly as much for it as other people would. he exploited native americans, like everybody else who gets rich in these two despicable continents. and they even get the amount he moved on his first flight wrong. 18 kilos. and who the fuck is the lion? there is no fucking lion. and lehder didn’t buy the island, his buddy robert vesco did. robert vesco, who was part of nixon’s slush fund to spy on the democrats, who was good friends with cia agent frank terpil, the guy who got kicked out of the country for being so greedy that he sold the entire american c4 stockpile to gaddafi, both of whom teamed up to scam aids patients out of their money on a snake oil miracle cure called trixolan in the late 80s. and that was cause the government of the bahamas was selling land to anybody who was willing to pay for it. they’re still one of the most horrifically corrupt nations on the planet, a legacy of colonialism, where cia agent mitchell werbell III, inventor of the MAC-10 silencer, got a libertarian lawyer from nevada to help him buy a couple islands and turn it into a neo-nazi paradise in the early 1970s. and m-19. they make them out to be a bunch of fucking hippies in over their heads. by the time the show takes place, m-19 had been around for fucking 7 years. they’d been through the ringer, and the people that came out of the colombian military repression were generally the sort of people who could live in a jungle and ambush the colombian military, not a bunch of sex-obsessed college students. and it wasn’t ivan torres who stole the sword of simon bolivar, it was fucking alvaro fayad, “the turk”, in 1974, years before the show took place. and why do they feature that so prominently? well which major political figure nowadays is associated with simon bolivar and is always accused of trafficking drugs? if you guessed hugo chavez, congrats. it’s just another way to slander a dude i’m not even a fan of. but hey, anything for right wing propaganda. then this forbes shit. forbes wasn’t on to the drug dealers until the late 80s. they did one fortune 500 thing where pablo was on it and then suddenly the m-19 guys didn’t even know what was going on in their own fucking country and had to hear it from fucking forbes. no, they just realized who was a stinking capitalist, and went after them. and it’s not like they would have been convinced by pablo’s bullshit handouts. all the colombian parties in those days paid people to vote. m-19 would have just seen pablo like any other motherfucker and would have grabbed anybody they could for money. and then they show m-19 releasing marta for nothing. actually, she was released for half a million dollars and 5 m-19 hostages. this was after death to kidnappers went on a rampage and killed over a hundred people, some of whom were family members of m-19 members and some of whom were completely random people, and the fact that m-19 stuck it out and still obtained their ransom (and in fact this was all negotiated by famous american cia agent and leader of panama manuel noriega who had links with the cartel) is just kept completely unde wraps. and the idea that the drug dealers were monitoring the people at the american embassy. they were fucking allies. the main characters were inside that meeting, which actually had 200 people in it, not just a table full of dudes, including british and israeli mercenaries, and cia agents. it was the cia boys who said “hey lets use the drug dealers against the communists, cause they’re natural enemies”. not to say the dea weren’t close with them either. the main characters, who irl came to colombia in 1988 in the case of the latino and 1991 in the case of the gringo, did whatever they could to connect drug dealing to communism. they told the ochoa brothers, in custody in spain, that if they said they were dealing to the sandinistas, that they’d go free. this was at the same time they were pulling out of pakistan so that the mujahadeen in afghanistan could smuggle their heroin scot free. thousands of people in those two countries have died from heroin since. they portray the dea’s kingpin strategy, but not its actual consequences, which andrew cockburn points out has been typically to elevate the most violent leaders above the most stable ones. actually, that photography scene was perfect, because really the dea would do everything it could to find out who was in charge, and then do nothing to actually stop it. instead they’d take bribes, or kill some people, but let the operation go on as it was, so that maybe the could bust it when it got too big and they’d all get bonuses. and of course through all this inaccuracy they basically use violence against women to “confirm” the accuracy for viewers because if women are being brutalized on screen that means it’s “realistic”. fucking bullshit.
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