Media Text: MARCOS (2015 – present)
- Netflix takes on the infamous Medellin drug cartel in "Narcos," which follows the rise and fall of Colombian kingpin Pablo Escobar and the Drug Enforcement Agency agents hunting him. The story is told largely from the points of view of Escobar, played by Brazilian actor Wagner Moura
- The story is told largely from the points of view of Escobar.
- The Netflix original series has running for 2 seasons
Pablo
Escobar
- Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord and trafficker. His cartel, at the height of his career, supplied an estimated 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, turning over US $21.9 billion a year in personal income.
- Born: December 1, 1949, Rionegro, Colombia
- Died: December 2, 1993, Medellín, Colombia
Los
PEPES
- was a short-lived vigilante group composed of enemies of drug lord Pablo Escobar. They waged a small-scale war against Escobar's Medellín Cartel in the early 1990s, which ended in 1993 with Escobar's death.
- the name suggested that all, or most, members of Los Pepes were previously persecuted by Escobar, most likely only a handful of the group's members had suffered at the hands of the notorious drug kingpin. Many members were allegedly rival drug traffickers. Los Pepes were allegedly funded by the rival Cali Cartel, the Castaño Brothers as well as other unknown persons or groups, including CIA.
- There are reports that Los Pepes had ties to some members of the Colombian National Police, especially the Search Bloc(Bloque de Búsqueda), with whom they exchanged information in order to execute their activities against Escobar. According to documents released to the public by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2008, "Colombian National Police director general Miguel Antonio Gómez Padilla said 'that he had directed a senior CNP intelligence officer to maintain contact with Fidel Castaño, paramilitary leader of Los Pepes, for the purposes of intelligence collection.
STEROTYPES
of latino
men in the media
- Latinos are bad or absent dads. The majority are present, hard-working and tender with their children.”
- They are uneducated e.g. Narcos (Nelson Mandela)
- That we all love sports. That we can all dance.
- Hispanic/latino men are terrible husbands
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