The jungle labs allowed Escobar to produce more cocaine that ever before. ibid.
Waging a one-man war on Colombia’s entire judicial system. ibid.
Colombia: This is where the global narcotics industry began. More dollars have been spent defeating the drugs barons here than anywhere else in this region. Yet Colombia remains one of the biggest traffickers of cocaine on the planet. Jason Fox, Meet the Drug Lords: Inside the Real Narcos II, Netflix 2018
The Colombia cartels are experts in the industrial exportation of drugs. ibid.
An extraordinary method the cartels now use to traffick their drugs: they build their own submarines. ibid.
During the last years of his life Pablo Escobar was the most feared and wanted narco-terrorist in the world. Through the use of intercepted telephone conversations conducted by Colombia and American authorities, we will listen to him and better understand his criminal mind and modus operandi … This is the countdown to the last nine years of his life. Pablo Escobar: Countdown to Death, Netflix 2017
After Escobar was killed the Colombian government changed his widow and their children’s identities to protect them as they went into exile. ibid.
1976: Escobar was imprisoned: He was captured with 19 kilos of cocaine. He was freed a few months later. ibid.
‘I’ve always been happy and optimistic. I’ve always had faith in life.’ ibid. Escobar
1984: Medellin Cartel proposes: total dismantling of cocaine labs; cease trafficking operations; total repatriation of their fortunes; full payment of Colombia’s foreign debt. ibid. captions
Medellin, Colombia 1982: Pablo Escobar is the head of the most powerful, violent and feared organisation in the world. The Medellin Cartel is raking in over $2 billion a month. Those Escobar can’t bribe he kills. Drug Lords s1e5: Pablo Escobar
They referred to the Bahamas as their trampoline into the US. ibid.
By the early 1980s Medellin, Colombia, is the cocaine capital of the world. ibid.
He sends his Sicarios out to corrupt a nation. ibid.
One of the bloodiest decades in Colombian history. ibid.
Escobar’s reign of terror continues to escalate. ibid.
Escobar only gets five years in jail. And he has even more demands … Pablo even chooses his guards and inmates. ibid.
Escobar escapes capture but his time is running out. ibid.
December 1993 Cali, home of the new kings of Coke … The most powerful cartel in Colombia supplying 90% of the country’s biggest export: cocaine. Drug Lords s1e6: The Cali Cartel
‘The biggest criminals in the world.’ ibid.
‘Chepe used to send 20 kilograms in suitcases carried by passengers.’ ibid. insider
By the mid-1980s the Rodriguez brothers are shipping industrial quantities of coke to the US. ibid.
These are the gentlemen of Cali with friends in high places. ibid.
Escobar’s Medellin cartel in the north; and the Cali cartel in the south. ibid.
Operation Phoenix: Miguel’ and Giberto’s [Cali cartel] elaborate plot to kill Escobar fails. ibid.
‘They were the only game in town.’ ibid. DEA agent in Colombia
Narcos 2015-2017 starring Wagner Moura & Boyd Holbrook & Pedro Pascal & Joanna Christie & Maurice Compte & Andre Mattos & Roberto Urbina & Diego Catano & Jorge A Jimenez & Paulina Gaitan et al
Nowadays the US government can listen to anything you say … In Colombia in 1989 it wasn’t that easy. First off, there was no internet. Narcos s1e1 Descenso, Netflix 2015-2017
I’m Steve Murphy. Drug enforcement agent. And as you can see I am deeply embedded in Colombia. ibid.
Don’t call me a bad guy just yet. ibid.
Sometimes bad guys do good things. ibid.
Pablo Escobar: a man who changed my life for ever. Pablo was making a killing in the smuggling business. ibid.
‘One day I’m going to be President of the Republic of Colombia.’ ibid. Escobar
Easiest money he ever made. ibid.
He was a family man to the end. ibid.
Pretty soon cocaine was hidden in every legitimate Colombia export. ibid.
Before long we were seizing sixty kilos a day … They let us have sixty so they could bring in six hundred. Pablo’s coke flooded in. ibid.
And with the money came the violence. ibid.
This mugshot was gonna cause him a lot of grief down the line. ibid.
Turns out Cockroach was a real cockroach. ibid.
The problem was no longer the demand. It was the supply. Narcos s1e2: The Sword of Simon Bolivar
Pablo and his partners built superlabs the size of small cities. ibid.
Whatever they did they couldn’t hide that much money. It kept coming in. ibid.
The Narcos had me on file the very first day. ibid.
What we didn’t know was that we were witnessing the formation of the famed Medellin cartel. ibid.
M-19 didn’t stand a chance. ibid.
This was a war that would shake an entire country to its foundations. And in the carnage Miami would be shaking as well. ibid.
They went after them so hard [Mexico], every single Narco in the world got the message that the DEA is off limits. Narcos s1e3: The Men of Always
‘I don’t want to be good, I’m going to be great.’ ibid. Pablo to prostitute
And just like that an honest man blinked. ibid.
Escobar: You are meeting up with politicians, not with gangsters.
Poison: Aren’t they the same thing, boss? ibid.
He placed himself on the side of the poor and the weak and the fight against the oligarchs. ibid.
And when you get too close to the sun your dreams may melt away. ibid.
The one thing Narcos feared most: extradition. Narcos s1e4: The Palace in Flames
Escobar will not go lightly. He will make Colombia bleed. ibid. Colombian rozzer
It was the good guys who had to hide their faces behind masks. ibid.
A cocaine empire that was bringing in $60 million a day. ibid.
Financed by Escobar, the M-19 guerrillas stormed the Palace of Justice and occupied the supreme court; they took over 100 hostages … The entire case against him turned to ash. ibid.
Sleeping with a communist? That would be downright un-American. Narcos s1e5: There Will Be a Future, Javier to Steve
Wen Noriega realised he could make even more money shipping his drugs by siding with communists he switched teams. So we invaded Panama. ibid. commentary
Pablo was right: who would have the balls to fill Galan’s shoes? ibid.
It’s silver or lead. ibid. Pablo
Pablo’s path was total war. He established a bounty system for killing and over 200 were slaughtered. Narcos s1e6: Explosivos
This was the first major successful major operation by the Search Block, a signal to the country and to the world that the fight against the Narcos had moved to a new level. ibid.
In his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate presidential candidate Cesar Trujillo, Pablo Escobar murdered 107 innocent people. Narcos s1e7: You Will Cry Tears of Blood
There had been violence between Medellin and Cali before but right now the war on two fronts was not something Pablo could afford. ibid.