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Pablo Escobar's Narcos

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Narcos, a biographical crime-drama, is a series that aims to vestige Pablo Escobar’s rise from a small-time smuggler to be the world’s most victorious drug lord. A simple man, plunged Colombia into chaos with campaigns including assassinations, terror bombings and kidnappings. At the same time, collecting a fortune, he was perfecting the business of transporting cocaine into United States. As products can be vehicles for transmission of values, it is always good to look beneath what we are consuming. Because Narcos, as much as I love the show, is a product loaded with ideology. Narcos may seem like a documentary, and it influences us to believe the story. But the history only becomes a mere device, only showing shredded pieces of the Colombian
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