In Narcos Season 3, the Cali Cartels brutal violence is enacted by El Navegante, a hitman and enforcer based on a real-life killer named Cesar Yusti. The Mexican government quickly concluded that Aburto had been the material and intellectual author of the assassination and, until 2019, it was impossible to corroborate this version, due to the fact that the file was kept as classified information until independent journalist Laura Sanchez Ley together with NGO Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity won the judicial battle to declassify the Colosio Case file. What do the real-life characters in Narcos: Mexico look like? Hector Yusti. 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. Andrea Nuez claims that Carlos Hank Gonzlez is "the personification of institutionalized corruption" of the Mexican political system, and accuses him of having murdered one of the founders of the newspaper La Voz, and laundering money from the Juarez Cartel in the casino he owns in Tijuana. El Azul was arrested in March 1986, and therefore would've been in jail for most of the season. Humiliated and enraged, Escobar symbolically removes his tie, storms out the building, and returns to his life of crime. Thats when we went to look for the hammers because once we were able to hit the air space, we knew there was unaccounted for space behind that wall.". View all Juan Sebastin Calero lists. Published 3 years, 5 months ago 1 comment. But no other group has been portrayed so oddly as M19. 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. After the death of money launderer Franklin Jurado (Miguel Angel Silvestre), viewers never see what happens to his widow, Christina (Kerry Bishe). Although her role as Virginia is arguably her most popular, she has also made appearances in Annabelle: Creation, Miss Bali, and Spectre. That's not to say everything Pena does in Season 3 is fiction. Amado Carrillo Fuentes joined the Juarez Cartel thanks to the request of his uncle, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Don Neto, who was one of the leaders of the Juarez Cartel, as well as being one of the co-founders of the Guadalajara Cartel with Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo. Using cellphones, fax machines and men on the outside, he maintained control over all the new cartels till he was transferred to a maximum-security prison in 1991. Discussion of the Netflix original series "Narcos" & "Narcos: Mexico", Press J to jump to the feed. Halfway through Season 2, Narcos pulls possibly its most brutal twist of all. But the real Pablo was way less of a family man than Netflix makes out. In fact, he went into hiding right after Kiki's kidnapping and was never found until 1989. However, not everyone is convinced of Salcedo's innocence. One of the questions I remember him asking was when we went into GuillermoPallomaris office, [the accountant for the Cali cartel] and what I looked for in a raid. It's an interpretation that leans heavily into a popular conspiracy theory regarding the assault, but it's also one that leaves out many key facts. As soon as Pablo Acosta was removed, Amado Carillo Fuentes assumed uncontested control of the Ojinaga Plaza. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. "Once that was over, I think he looked for a way out and realized: once you get in, you cant get out. He'd been a sicario, or hitman, for the cartel back in the day, while his brother, Fidel, was a full member. Navegante is based on a real person, whose real name was Cesar Yusti. Pena, meanwhile, goes and takes down Cali (which, as we've discussed, didn't happen), before retiring to his father's home on the Mexican border. Doubts arise since, after a fairly exhaustive search for information, no reliable sources have been found that today, or even at the time, point to Carlos Hank Gonzalez as the intellectual author of Colosio's assassination. The death of Cardinal Juan Jess Posadas Ocampo is considered a key moment in the history of the Narco in Mexico. Type "Cali wedding bomb" into Google and all you'll get are discussions of Narcos rather than, y'know, actual history. The series introduced a set of new principal characters that effectively "reset the chessboard" in the words of Indiewire'sLiz Shannon Miller,transforming "Narcos" into an anthology show ready to explore the wider stories of the South American war on drugs in the process. Thats how the North Valley tried to defeat, in their minds, extradition. I've never killed anybody," Salcedo recalled. Aguilar Guajardo was an agent of the Mexican Federal Security Agency and one of the founders of the Juarez Cartel, along with Gilberto Ontiveros, El Greas, and Rafael Muoz Talavera. TheAssociated Press reported on the peace deal. Though Calero's portrayal skillfully transmits the character's dark side, according to researchers, the real-life Yusti carried himself in a very different fashion. ", So when Salcedo's friend was arrested in Operation Cornerstone (mentioned on the show), Feistl says they had a mutual friend to link them up. 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. In December 1996, Gutirrez Rebollo was named head of the National Institute for the Fight against Drugs, earning him the nickname "Anti-Drug Czar". One hundred years later, in 1989, Carlos Hank Rohn, Professor Carlos Hank Gonzalezs son, bought shares of the group and, in 1991, purchased 74,000 shares of Laredo National Bancshares for $7.4 million. In real life, we have no idea who fired the lethal shot. In 2011, he was transferred to the Central Military Hospital in Mexico City, due to cancer and diabetes. After they did catch Miguel, Salcedo, once again to Feistl's surprise, said he wasn't leaving until he helped them approach Pallomari, the accountant and future key witness in dismantling Cali corruption. "Ive heard Jorges version of what he believes happened. Felix Gallardo successfully made Colombians pay them 50% cut of the cocaine they transported from Colombia. In that position, he gained access to investigations, wiretaps, interdiction programs, anti-drug operations, informants and to all the Mexican intelligence on drug trafficking, in addition to having the privilege of knowing the information provided by the U.S. government and its specialized agencies. Unsurprisingly given the series' genre, that relationship is a classic informer/informant one, with Don Berna slowly feeding Pena information that benefits both the DEA, and psychopathic paramilitary group Los Pepes. Jesus Alberto Bayardo Robles, El Gory, a man of the Arellano Felix family, declared in 1997 that the real motive for the assassination was linked to documents the Cardinal had in which organized crime bosses were involved with high-ranking Mexican government officials. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. Aburto simply replied: "It's just publicity. Years later, in 1997, while El Gory was in prison in the United States, he stated that he had been forced to sign a confession in Mexico, and that the real motive for the murder was linked to incriminating information in possession of the Cardinal. Jorge Salcedo, who now lives under a different name and in an unknown location with his family, has only emerged sporadically from the U.S. witness protection program. General Barry McCaffrey, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, recognized him as "a man with an impeccable reputation". "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. The New Yorker has additional details. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. The news of his arrest was kept in secret for 13 days, giving way to all kinds of speculations about the whereabouts of General Rebollo. While Pacho's position meant he was immune from such treatment, he was the lucky one. Main Menu According to a 2017 interview with Javier Pena, Murphy was at headquarters when a major came by to tell him "viva Colombia, Pablo is dead!" We had to focus on trying to locate and approach Giullermo Pallomari, because we needed him as a witness. Gustavo de Jess Gaviria Rivero (25 December 1946 - 11 August 1990) was a Colombian drug trafficker. Quite literally. Escobar had Conrado killed. "We first got hooked up on July 12, 1995," says Feistl. Once Amado Carrillo recovered, he was brought to justice and, although he was sentenced to several years in prison, he only spent one year in jail for illegal possession of weapons, not for drug trafficking. In an interview, journalist Sanchez Ley pointed out some of the most relevant data that came to light from the declassification of the Colosio Case, stating that this new information revealed documentation which proves things that were previously only speculated. Is there any truth behind this theory? 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. To their credit, these actors mostly attempted local accents. Flix Gallardo wasn't nearly captured in 1985. As played by Boyd Holbrook, DEA agent Steve Murphy is the lynchpin of the first two seasons ofNarcos. The official version that Mexican authorities continue to defend to this day is that one of "the lone assassin" thesis, according to which Mario Aburto fired two shots at Colosio, one of them in the head that caused his death, during the Lomas Taurinas rally in Tijuana on March 23, 1994. Fearing a coup by the Arellano Flix brothers, Javier fled to Canada where he was temporarily detained. So when you walked back in, it looked just like a dresser. As viewers, it would be difficult to doubt what we watched in the series. "We arrested Miguel, but then it was, 'Ok, now we need to focus our attention on Jorge. Profesional en Ingeniera Industrial, con 15 aos de experiencia en organizacin, planeacin, control y gestin de los procesos productivo, lder en la implementacin de nuevos productos y lneas. Narcos Season 3 spoilers ahead. "Michael would also call me while he was down there and we would talk over certain parts of the script. From the downfall of Pablo Escobar to the tribulations of the Cali Cartel and the empire building of Miguel Gallardo, the show has maintained the intensity and shock of its very first episodes and remains one of Netflix's most reliably binge-watchable series. FARC fighters were trained by both the Soviet Union and the IRA (via Telegraph). First, the newspaper La Voz does not exist. 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. Caius Julius Caesar was born around July 13, 100 B.C. Rumors indicate that there was never a confrontation between the two Cartels. On the show, Feistl's inner torture of catching Miguel but also keeping Salcedo's"rat" identity a secret is something that is well-captured. He had family connections to the darker sides of Colombia's military, connections that saw him spearhead an attempt in the late 1980s to assassinate FARC's leadership. In season 3 , he was shot by Jorge Salcedo whereas, the real Salcedo denied killing him and suggested that the DEA killed Yusti. It wasn't Pea, but another DEA agent named Joe Toft who revealed the corruption in Colombia, and called the country a 'narco-democracy'. In the same chapter, La Voz newspaper reporters find that Professor Carlos Hank Gonzalez erased his tracks by disappearing El Paso Savings and Loans Bank in Texas, which was allegedly used to launder drug money. However, despite appearances, Cesar Yusti was certainly incredibly dangerous a fact William C. Rempel's book makes clear (via the Internet Archive). According to Flores, during this meeting, Posadas confessed to him that he had attended a lunch at Los Pinos, the Mexican presidential house, where he received "indecent proposals", telling him not to get involved in the Tijuana-Guadalajara corridor, in prostitution or in "other things" that happened there, promising him in exchange "whatever he wanted" for his ministry. In February 2011, Gutierrez Rebollo had an interview with journalist Isabel Arvide, in which he stated: I was in Cervantes Aguirre's way thats the reason of everything, that's why he wanted to kill me. But if you're a native speaker, it's the most glaring lie of all. 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. With this purchase, Carlos Hank Rohn became the majority shareholder of the group. Ortega Sanchez has also mentioned that the Cardinal was preparing himself to make a trip to Puerto Vallarta where he was set to meet with a high-ranking official of the PGR in order to present him with all the information he had, for example, evidence of the relationship of Mexican politicians with Bolivian, Peruvian and Colombian drug traffickers. Vice has the full story. The finale of NarcosSeason 2 is the culmination of two years of storytelling. Among the most prominent was David, the violent son of Cali godfather Miguel Rodriguez. This weekly was founded by Jess Blancornelas, presented in the series as Ramn Salgado, and by Hctor Flix, known by his nickname El Gato. And meanwhile, here I am ending my life for something I'm not even sure I did.". The paramilitary group the brothers led was also more extreme than the one seen in the show, if that seems possible. So who is the real navegante, and if its Velasquez, then why do so many sources say its Yusti? When Colombia's government dismantled this faux state with bullets, the farmers fled for the jungle. 6 days ago. The operation involved Salcedo bringing together ruthless paramilitaries and mercenaries who'd previously fought for the white supremacist government in Rhodesia. In fact, Cali and Medellin were so close that they knew one another's operations intimately. "When I went to Colombia, it was great to interact with Michael and Matt [Whelan] in Cali," he says. In Season 3, the Cali Cartel's brutal violence is enacted by "El Navegante," a hitman and enforcer based on a real-life killer named Cesar Yusti. Though as readers of "At The Devil's Table" table know, disappearing was, besides killing, Cesar Yusti's greatest talent. "It had a big impact and resonated," he says. 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. 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