NP-The Last Narc (Prime)

Gary Webb gwebb8686 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 21:02:53 UTC 2020


I agree...I’m not a scholar of the cartels, but the drug war in Mexico has been just another example of a insoluble problem, that has been gradually escalating on a somewhat annual basis...

Mexico’s GDP has grown something like 44% from 1994 to 2019 (just doing a quick & dirty calculation, don’t quote me...), but now you have this in 2020: 

https://www.the-sun.com/news/us-news/1164447/mexicos-jalisco-drug-cartel-pose-weapons-chanting-mencho/

And you have violence in what was once peaceful areas: 

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-02/el-marro-vs-el-mencho-cartel-turf-war-roils-mexicos-guanajuato

Lest we forget the Mummies of Guanajuato, as mentioned in ATD: 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummies_of_Guanajuato

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>> On Aug 6, 2020, at 3:13 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I haven’t watched the Netflix dramatization yet, but the Prime show is all interviews with the real people, witnesses and participants of the whole thing.  I think that is more powerful.
> 
> David Morris 
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 10:59 AM Gary Webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Narcos:México on Netflix, which covers the same topic...PRI/CIA/Cartels & the DEA... The ending monologue by Diego Luna is good... 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> > On Aug 6, 2020, at 11:41 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > An extremely well made documentary.  A deep dive into incredibly layered
>> > corruption and complicity.
>> > 
>> > https://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Narc-Season-1/dp/B08D11X73N/ref=nodl_
>> > 
>> > David Morris
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