“That was born from the realization that in order to understand how the drug war started, we had to tell that story,” Newman states.
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Newman says that while he always wanted to feature Camarena, he didn’t necessarily plan to have an entire series centered around his story. He was mentioned in the first season of Narcos, and he appears at the end of season three. I don’t think he was led by shame, but I think by serving in the Marine corps, he felt a responsibility to take this thing on.” Newman continues, “I also think if he had been a white American, they wouldn’t have killed him.”Ĭamarena’s presence has been felt throughout the entire series thus far. I think the fact that he was born in Mexico-a Mexican American-was what led him to Guadalajara in the ‘80s. “What appealed to me about Kiki was that there’s an amazing immigrant story there. Newman says the story and death of the Mexican-born Camarena, a former Marine, had left an impact on him as a teenager. It also “led us to conclude that in order to understand the drug war in Mexico, was to understand what happened in Guadalajara and the depths of Kiki Camarena.” “What changed in our thinking was what time we would start.” Jumping from Columbia 1996, which was when Narcos season three ended, to 1980s Mexico where Narcos: Mexico begins, was born from the show’s research. From its earliest incarnations, the show was always going to find its way to Mexico, since that’s currently the front line, or ground zero if you will, of the current ‘war on drugs,’” he says. While the reset, which included a time jump backwards, might’ve surprised fans of the series, showrunner Eric Newman says that following the “flow of cocaine” from Columbia to Mexico was always part of the plan. The latest installment of the drug drama focuses on the story of DEA agent Kiki Camarena (Michael Peña), who moves his family to Mexico for a post in the DEA’s Guadalajara office in 1981. With Pablo Escobar and Javier Peña gone, Netflix’s Narcos had a reset when it launched as Narcos: Mexico last fall.
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