Since there is always a law enforcement aspect to the show they could bring back Murphy since he was DEA in Miami before being transferred to Colombia.

Narcos Mexico: Who is Tessa Ía? TV programmes like Narcos, Weeds and Breaking Bad have turned drug lords into light entertainment – when the reality is that their lives are anything but entertaining. There wasn't just one smuggler who ran his entire import/export business, but dozens of them over the years. Is El Viceroy real? Pablo Escobar’s Miami drug boss? According to one book, he's actually the first cartel leader who gave up on trying to be "perfect" in smuggling things into the US and realized that even if the authorities found half of what he smuggled in, he'd still be making a profit. Griselda was a high end distributor, but didn't run things. Max Mermelstein?”. The money laundering in Miami was ending up in the Caymans and Panama. if he were spanish , then rafa would be the best bet. “For simplicity, I think they just created The Lion’s character to help tell the story. Max Mermelstein? Jung was released from prison in June 2014 after serving almost 20 years for drug smuggling, mostly from Colombia. After Cali gained complete control of Miami, he returned back to Colombia and resumed his duties as a sicario. In the first season of Narcos, The Lion has a contact in the United States called Carlos Lehder (Juan Riedinger) who was tasked with distributing the cocaine which had come from Colombia.

Pablo's extreme methods put the narcos on the brink of war with Carrillo and the government.

Max was the head gringo in the medellin cartel. That is where General Noriega comes into the picture. The local players i.e Jon Roberts, Max Mermelstein cameo but the key characters shown as the middlemen working under and between Carlos Lehdar, George Jung, Barry Seal - All Medellin affiliated members. This is also when the Mexican cartels started sending illegals into the US and starting gigantic weed farms on the borders of national forests. He's Miami-bases so it's a composite of John Roberts (who was the dealer in Miami), Mickey Mundy (who was the pilot w/ creative smuggling solutions), and Max Mermelstein (who coordinate the entire Miami operation). They said: “According to books I’ve read about Pablo Escobar, his operation in Miami wasn’t quite so easily managed as they make it out in the show. From a factual and/or entertaining standpoint? For simplicity, I think they just created the Lion's character to help tell the story. El Leon returned to Colombia with Herrera and arrived at the home of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (Damián Alcázar), where he was strangled with an iron collar. He also had anxiety problems.

Lion reminds me more of Jon Roberts. Who is Pablo Escobar’s Miami drug boss? Was he a real person? El León, or The Lion, appears in series one and two of the original Narcos and he becomes Escobar’s first drug smuggler into Miami. For some reason I really liked his character. I always assumed he was based on George Jung who appears in the biopic "Blow". Lightning-mcqueen14 replied saying: “He is [mostly] based off of George Jung, which was the Cartel’s buyer in the US but it wasn’t [a] very accurate [portrayal] of him.

“There wasn’t just one smuggler who ran his entire import/export business, but dozens of them over the years. Jung was a member of the Medellín Cartel, which smuggled up to 85 per cent of all cocaine which made it into the United States. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Discussion of the Netflix original series "Narcos", Press J to jump to the feed.

“In reality, the takeover of the Cali Cartel wasn’t quite as smooth as implied.

Was a short columbian fella who was the main supplier of cocaine in Miami at the time. I'm not familiar at all with Miami's drug history, I suggest you watch the documentary cocaine cowboys then. They talk about it in the show, why Felix rises is he says the Caribbean route is dead. It made it easier to say that The Lion was running Pablo’s operation on the US side of things and then for them to show the Cali Cartel approaching him to “switch him over” to their side. Also, most don't seem to know, the CIA import-export, sending weapons to Central America, coming back filled with cocaine was going on all through the late 80's and into the 90's.

Yeah, I think it's a combo of a few guys like Roberts, Mermelstein and Jung. I doubt it was Jon roberts cause he was under max and rafa, wouldnt be Micky Munday cause he just transported the coke. He was described in the documentary cocaine cowboys. [INSIGHT]. I know I'm super late on this thread but I only just got around to season 2. In reality, the takeover of the Cali Cartel wasn't quite as smooth as implied. Which is the best of these books you've read? But since the Medellin Cartel basically fell apart without Pablo, most of the dealers just bought from the Cali Cartel instead.

The character is representative of guys like these. Narcos: Who is The Lion in real life? I know he stopped smuggling in '85, but... y'know, creative license and all. Colonel Carrillo was the first head of the Search Bloc police unit, tasked with hunting down the most notorious drug traffickers in Columbia. Cuban crime wave forces the local DEA and police department into action as waves of violence break out in the more clandestine Colombian dominated drug markets in the city.

He had a ton of anxiety problems like the lion. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Max had severe anxiety. [INSIGHT]Narcos Mexico season 3: Will series feature Amado Carrillo Fuentes? I haven't seen all of season two yet, but I'm thinking max. Maybe delve into the city, political and social decay as local and independent drug distributors become filthy rich - Glitz and glamour, the clubs, speedboats, sports cars etc all become center stage.
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But since the Medellín Cartel basically fell apart without Pablo, most of the dealers just bought from the Cali Cartel instead.”. Fans have been wondering whether the character is based on a real-life cartel member, and here is everything you need to know about El León. Maybe loosely based on him. Narcos Mexico Season 2 is showing George HW Bush's smiling face on the wall.

DarthVeX shared a theory of how his character was introduced into the series on Reddit.

Money laundering wasn't illegal until about 1989. Perhaps show a different perspectives i.e working family devastated by a gangland shooting gone wrong i.e Cartel vs Cuban shoot out in a parking lot. The lion himself is a fictional character. Something about the way he presented himself. According to books I've read about Pablo Escobar, his operation in Miami wasn't quite so easily managed as they make it out in the show.

Johnnyxx96 said on Reddit: “Who is the lion in real life? Pablo actually preferred to have multiple people smuggling his drugs and using different methods.

His life story was told in the biopic called Blow, which was released in 2001 and starred Johnny Depp. What would the story be ? The money laundering in Miami was ending up in the Caymans and Panama. Peña and Carrillo close in on Gacha, while Murphy tries to protect pro-extradition candidate Gaviria from a notorious assassin connected to Pablo. NARCOS is a series on Netflix which follows the rise and fall of notorious drug dealer Pablo Escobar (played by Wagner Moura) and his drug trafficking across Colombia. Rafa ran the operation.

Im only on page 33, might be more mentioned of him later. We and our partners use cookies on this site to improve our service, perform analytics, personalize advertising, measure advertising performance, and remember website preferences.

After meeting all of Escobar's contacts, Navegante garrotted El Leon to death.

Audience members will surely remember his shockingly unexpected assassination of "El Leon", Escobar's representative in Miami.

Narcos is a crime drama series on Netflix which is based on the rise and fall of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who became rich through the production and distribution of cocaine.

It wasn't dead but radar had been upgraded for planes trying to fly under it, the Coast Guard started using helicopters with machine guns for cigarette fast boats (shoot out the engines) and the US Navy started patrolling the Caribbean from Colombia to Florida.
His brother has mentioned the lion once so far by saying: "one member of Pablo's organization, the Lion, remembers carrying as much as $3 million in cash in the lining as he made more than twenty flights between Medillin and New York, bringing the drugs to America and the cash back to Columbia". What Narcos star was she related to?

5 Colonel Horacio Carrillo.

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