Narcos
- Thread starter cnsaguy
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I've never watched any of the Netflix shows but planning on watching this. I've always been fascinated by organized crime, particularly the cartels. The corruption that pervades latin America is so crazy and frankly foreign to us. I visited a prison in Bolivia by having someone that was with us call one of the prisoners on his cell phone. We paid them and some of the money went to paying off the guards. They also made their own cocaine in the prison. Probably the most surreal experience I've ever had. The prisoners that we went with or whatnot were mostly South African and had been busted for trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country.
I've been to Bogota. It's better but by no means is it now "clean"- my hotel clearly told me which areas I must avoid and I was picked up every day by an armed driver. The "cartels" are much diminished since the government wisely waged war on them starting years ago but there's still plenty of drug activity; it now simply flows to the east in the FARC areas. (Who are, by the way, heavily supported by Venezuela)
But yea, back in "those days", the cartels WERE the government. They owned the country and Colombia was one giant murder scene.
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