translated from Spanish: Mexico narcos, who’s who in the Netflix series

series Narcos, Netflix, leaves at the moment Colombia to turn their gaze toward bosses who laid the foundations of the drug trade in Mexico.
After a first season focused on the figure of Pablo Escobar, this new saga, released in mid November, follows the footsteps of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and the beginnings of the structure of the Mexican drug trafficking in the 80’s.
Although the series is described as a “dramatization inspired by real events”, in which several portrayed moments suffered alterations, most of the main characters correspond to real characters in the history of Mexico.
Then we tell you who’s who in the saga of “Narcos: México”.
Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo also known as “El Jefe de Jefes” or “The godfather”, Félix Gallardo was the founder of the Guadalajara cartel and the drug trafficker most powerful in Mexico in the 1970s and 80s. Although before that time was not used the word poster for large drug trafficking groups in Mexico.
In the series of Netflix Diego Luna plays it, and was the first Mexican in large-scale export cocaine to the United States through Mexico.
‘Something that changed the operation of Mexican traffickers who just traded with marijuana and poppy’, says BBC Mundo in Mexico Alberto Nájar journalist in a story about Felix Gallardo.
“The ‘Jefe de Jefes’ also is indirectly responsible for the current mapping of drug trafficking in the country.”
Before becoming “The godfather”, he worked as judicial police in the State of Sinaloa.
And he was arrested in 1989 for anti-drug investigations for the murder of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena Salazar, agent of the Agency of United States (DEA).
Enrique “Kiki” Camarena of Mexican and U.S. nationality, Kiki Camarena was an undercover DEA agent who closely followed the rise of the Guadalajara cartel.
In the series the American actor Michael Peña interprets it and, according to the official website of the DEA, joined the drug enforcement agency in 1974 as an agent in Calexico.
Camarena was a year and a half in Mexico and after being kidnapped and tortured in February 1985, was the first active member of the DEA to be murdered. He was 37 when he died.
“The main figures of organized crime in Mexico – including Rafael Caro Quintero, Rubén Zuno Arce, Miguel Felix Gallardo, Álvarez Humberto Machain, Mario Verdugo and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo – were arrested for the torture and murder of Enrique Camarena”, the DEA says.
“This event triggered the operation of legend, the investigation of largest murder that the DEA had undertaken”.
Rafael Caro Quintero also originally from Sinaloa and Guadalajara cartel co-founder, Rafael Caro Quintero is known as the “Narcos Narco”.
Like many barons of his time, he came from a family of farmers with few resources. Growing up between the planting and harvesting of marijuana gradually escaló positions to be one of the most powerful drug traffickers of the 1980s.
Caro Quintero, who is played by Tenoch Huerta in the series, was accused of the abduction and killing of Enrique Camarena.
After spending 28 years in prison, he was released in 2013 in a controversial lawsuit.
Since then he is a fugitive and United States offers a $20 million reward for his capture.
Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo “Don Neto” was a partner of Felix Gallardo and capo of the Guadalajara cartel.
In the “Narcos: México” series, he is portrayed by Joaquín Cosío and is related to former leaders of the cartel from Juarez and Amado Carrillo Fuentes, “The Lord of the skies”.
DEA/GettyErnesto Fonseca Carrillo is related to the Juarez cartel kingpins and with Amado Carrillo Fuentes.En 1985 was captured and sentenced to 40 years in prison for the abduction and murder of agent Enrique Camarena, but in 2016 was under house arrest by his age until their total freedom in 2017.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes, “The Lord of the skies” Carrillo Fuentes was one of the most powerful and most sought-after of Mexico covers.
I was known as “The Lord of the skies” by the fleet of aircraft Saberliner, Learjet and Cessna that had to move drugs from South America to the United States for the Guadalajara cartel and its allies.
After the death of Pablo Escobar, would become the “successor” of the market with “El Chapo” Guzman, the Beltrán Leyva brothers and Héctor Palma rising, according to the investigations of journalist Anabel Hernández, author of “Drug lords”.
Getty ImagesA Amado Carrillo Fuentes was known as “The Lord of the skies” for its fleet of aircraft.” The Lord of the skies”, performed by José María Yazpik Netflix series, was leader of the cartel from Juarez and the brother of drug Lord Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, alias”El Viceroy”.
He died in 1997 after undergoing plastic surgery to change his appearance.
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