M19 ivan the terrible biography
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‘Narcos’ Recap: “The Palace In Flames”
“The bad guys need to get lucky every time. The good guys just need to get lucky once.” — Steve Murphy
Desperate times call for desperate measures. For both the DEA and the Medellín Cartel, their backs are against the wall. This fourth episode of Narcos, titled “The Palace in Flames,” felt the most cinematic of the series thus far, but it also carried a little too much extra dramatic weight: the kind of questionable biography depiction that urges you to pull up Wikipedia while you watch and determine whether or not all of this craziness actually happened. Turns out, yes, it’s all true. Hats off to creators Chris Brancato, Paul Eckstein, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro for doing an absurd amount of homework to make Narcos as authentic as possible (aided by the sobering B-roll of archived news footage). Spoilers ahead.
The more you watch Narcos, however, it becomes obvious why socie
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Narcos recap: The Sword of Simón Bolivar
It's clear, even through just two episodes, that Narcos is going to have trouble fleshing out the story of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, American DEA agent Steve Murphy, and the complex politics of the War on Drugs. Narcos is ambitious in its scope, doing what it can to tell a story that spans decades and has implications beyond that, but it's also hindered by such a vision. It's why moments of promising character development, like tonight's formation of the Medellín cartel, are often presented as mere exposition via Murphy's voice-over.
Still, after a scattered premiere, Narcos finds more steady ground in its second episode by mostly limiting its time jumps and fleshing out how Murphy and Escobar came to be intertwined. The episode begins with Murphy and his wife Connie trying to get through customs in Colombia. It's 1981, eight years before Murphy tracks down Poison, has him killed, and is thus on Escobar
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Ivan "the Terrible" Marino Ospina (16 April 1940-28 August 1985) was a Colombian guerrilla and co-founder of M-19.
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Ivan Marino Ospina was born in Roldanillo, Valle sektion Cauca, Colombia in 1940. He studied history in college before joining socialist guerrillas in Venezuela. In 1970, he returned to Colombia to cofound M-19 with Jaime Bateman Cayon, and he became the group's second-in-command. A few days later, he was arrested in Cali and tortured in Bogota. Six months later, he flydde while disguised as a Colombian Army major. On Bateman's death in a plane crash in 1983, Ospina took command of M-19, and, in 1984, he negotiated a truce with President Belisario Betancur in Madrid. In månad 1984, during a reunion in Mexico, he applauded the Medellin Cartel's threats to Americans living in Colombia, leading to Marino being deposed as M-19 leader and Alvaro Fayad taking command. He was killed in an army operation in Cali in August 1985; his home was besieged on the mo