• Live
    • Audio Only
  • google plus
  • facebook
  • twitter
News > Latin America

Pablo Escobar's Son Slams Netflix Series 'Narcos'

  • Juan Pablo Escobar

    Juan Pablo Escobar | Photo: EFE

Published 7 November 2015
Opinion

The series “is an insult to Colombia's history and to the thousands of victims of drug-trafficking,” he said.

Juan Pablo Escobar, son of the infamous drug lord from Medellin, says the Netflix series “Narcos” is motivated by political interests and does not properly reflect the reality of Colombia.

RELATED:
Does Netflix's 'Narcos' Misrepresent Colombia?

“First, they should include chapters showing how the (U.S.) Drug Enforcement Agency charged my dad 'taxes' so he could send cocaine to the U.S. territory via Miami International Airport,” Escobar said in an interview Saturday with Brazilian daily O Estado de Sao Paolo.

He said he offered his services to Netflix as a consultant on the series but Brazilian director Jose Padilha refused.

Padilha previously complained that Escobar's relatives and friends wanted money for information, to which Escobar replied: “Any chance he believes we are still in slavery? He wants people to work for free for him.”

Padilha, for his part, has suggested Escobar’s offspring do not know as much as they think. The drug lord's children “were not fully aware of what was going on with their father,” he has claimed.

Juan Pablo strongly denied that in the interview, saying that “the only one who was not aware of the story is Padilha himself.” Who knew “him better than his children?”

The series, he added, “is an insult to Colombia's history and to the thousands of victims of drug-trafficking.” Escobar argued the series was crafted with an eye toward painting the U.S. DEA in a positive light.

He also claimed that U.S. jazz singer Frank Sinatra was one of his father's business partners in Miami.

“There are more singers than one could imagine who started their careers with the sponsorship of drug dealers. But there isn't any receipt, and I only know this because I was close to my father,” he said. According to him, Sinatra was better at selling drugs than singing.

Comment
0
Comments
Post with no comments.