‘Narcos’ show can lead to conflicts in real life, Pablo Escobar’s son warns
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Internet-television giant Netflix continues to be targeted by threats from Pablo Escobar’s surviving family, as the late narco trafficker’s son Sebastian Marroquin has also joined the fray.
Less than a month after Escobar’s brother Robert de Jesus Escobar Gaviria sued Netflix after making grave threats to its brass, Marroquin claimed that “Narcos” producers should be extremely careful in its portrayal of real life drug cartels.
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“The drug dealers in Cali are watching ‘Narcos’ and they don’t like it. They don’t like their names and their cities being used to tell things that aren’t true,” he told The Mirror Online.
“Nothing has changed except the names. Now there’s even more drug-trafficking and corruption,” he added.
Marroquin also addressed the death of the show’s location scout last month, who was peppered with bullets by an unknown assailant while on the job.
“As for what happened to the Netflix guy, I don’t know too much and I don’t trust what I read in the news,” he shared. “But unfortunately, Mexico is a very violent place. If I went to Africa to film lions, I wouldn’t be surprised if one killed me.”
Last year, Marroquin made headlines when he lambasted the critically acclaimed crime-drama show for sensationalizing his father’s reign as the “Cocaine King” of the world. He also pointed out several deficiencies in the show. Khristian Ibarrola /ra
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