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Magical Realism on Drugs: Colombian History in Netflix’s Narcos (2015)
- ucaetano 11y ago"The M19, a social democratic guerilla movement" You gotta be joking me! Social democratic? A group trying to implement a communist dictatorship through armed force and terrorism? We had far too many of those in my native South America. None of them had democratic intentions.
- golergka 11y agoThis blog appears to be written by the same kind of leftist that would've praised Pol Pot and Mao back in the day. (There's certainly enough of completely sensible left-wing people and enough right-wing idiots and morons. I'm not attacking left in general, of course; it's just this particular kind that I'm talking about.)
- petke 11y agoIts like the cult around Che Guevara. I saw lot of tourists wear those T-shirts when I was in Bolivia. I found it very distasteful. Bolivia after all was where Che tried to start yet another civil war but could not get any locals to join. They wanted none of it, and turned him in. I wonder if those youngsters that wear his face on their chest, know what he did and stood for. Or if all they know is he looks good in pictures. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2004/09/the_cult_of_che.html http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2004/09/the_cu...
- seivan 11y agoI know the feeling. Western leftists love to paint up a pretty picture of violent Marxists groups. For the record I actually recommend watching it. They really show how the communists are a bunch of worthless "academic" sacks of shits looking for money and glory. The show is good for other reasons as well. It shows how the war escalates from bribing to rocket launchers and suixide covers to cops forming own militia.
- ucaetano 11y agoI've watched it already, it is a pretty good show! It is specially relevant to other Latin American countries, who could learn something from Colombia's impressive turnaround over the past 20 years.
- cm2187 11y agoI hope that this will be showed in future seasons as for as good as the show is, it provides a horrendous vision of Colombia.
- digaozao 11y agoI agree, I visited colombia last year. Bogota, once stage of many of these violent events, feels safer than most big cities in Brazil, where I live
- Synaesthesia 11y agoThey had widespread support in Colombia. And the US backed government that stole an election in 1970 are flagbearers for freedom?
- oe 11y agoThe article contains some spoilers if you haven't seen Narcos.
- danesparza 11y ago:-) Or if you're not familiar with the historical account of Pablo Escobar