[Warning: The next incorporates spoilers for Season 2 of Narcos: Mexico. Learn at your individual threat!]
Narcos: Mexico Season 2 concluded with the tip of Félix Gallardo’s (Diego Luna) reign because the preeminent drug lord of Mexico. The federation of cartels he painstakingly put collectively in Season 1 turned towards him in favor of putting out on their very own after he made one too many energy strikes. With nobody left to guard him, and no leverage left towards the federal government, Gallardo was taken into custody for the homicide of DEA agent Kiki Camarena (Michael Peña).
Gallardo’s arrest didn’t result in the tip of the struggle on medicine as many bigwigs in Washington thought it’d. As a substitute, it splintered the cartels and created 1,000,000 extra issues for Mexico, america, and the world because the cartels inevitably turned on one another and fought for management of the pathways to distribute cocaine within the U.S. To simplify, regulation enforcement went from attempting to sort out one group to attempting to take down not less than half a dozen.
Which means there’s much more story to inform on the subject of explaining how the struggle on medicine helped exacerbate a worldwide drug drawback. TV Information spoke to Narcos: Mexico govt producer Eric Newman about ending the Gallardo chapter of the story and the place the present will go subsequent whether it is renewed for Season 3. Spoiler alert: You’ve got already met the brand new kingpin.
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What do you wish to say to individuals who might need some sympathy for Felix on the finish of the season? I felt unhealthy for him, after which I felt horrible about myself for feeling unhealthy for him.
Eric Newman: I feel folks ought to have sympathy for everyone. Monsters will not be — they do not spring forth from the womb; they’re created by circumstances. I feel that when you have been to check Felix Gallardo to among the guys we have got at present… Felix is de facto not the issue. Felix’s ambition, his hubris, and his lack of an ethical compass actually bought him into hassle, however actually what sealed his destiny was stepping into enterprise with the federal government. Decide him primarily based on the world that he is in, and the folks which might be in it. Honestly, there is no such thing as a larger sin, in my view, than the betrayal of public belief. Drug sellers are drug sellers. They do not fake to be good folks. They do not fake to be searching for the residents of their nation, however politicians and cops do. I feel that it is OK to really feel sympathy for Felix Gallardo as a result of he is … removed from the worst particular person within the Narcos universe.
You could possibly have ended the season with Felix’s arrest and made it really feel like a satisfying conclusion. As a substitute, there is a scene with him in jail through which he tells Walt (Scoot McNairy) that taking Felix out simply let the animals out of the cage. Why did not you need the tip of this season to really feel like a win for the DEA?
Newman: You’ll be able to take out Pablo Escobar, or the Cali cartel, or Felix Gallardo and really feel some sense of victory, however in actuality, all you have carried out is swallow the spider to catch the fly. Everyone knows how that ends; it simply continues to speed up into the chaos, which may be very a lot the theme of this season. And so, to finish with a second the place you understand we have completed nothing apart from unleashing these animals, for probably the most half, [allows us to] start the subsequent chapter within the drug struggle, over which we’ll have much less management than we had beforehand.
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You make some fairly necessary factors throughout the season about ladies and their function on this enterprise. We’re left with Enedina taking up a management function within the Tijuana cartel. Why was that necessary?
Newman: In contrast to Colombia the place, with only a few exceptions, there weren’t a whole lot of excessive profile ladies within the enterprise… Mexico is a bit of totally different. [Women] had a stronger presence. It is a bit of little bit of a solution to a few of our critics, and hopefully proof that we’re paying consideration. We actually wished ladies on this season to be extra than simply wives.
For those who get renewed for Season 3, who’s going to take heart stage? We noticed El Chapo begin to stand up with the Sinaloas on this season.
Newman: I feel that when you look chronologically on the subsequent powerhouse, post-Felix Gallardo, it might be Amado Carrillo Fuentes. He was the Lord of the Skies and the top of the Juarez cartel. It is a very wealthy world and Chapo’s heyday continues to be about 20 years away, possibly rather less than that in our story. Sure, Chapo may very well be an element, however I additionally suppose that one other very possible suspect is, you realize, is Amado Carrillo Fuentes. We even have met the Gulf Cartel, Juan Abrego, who was additionally a fairly monumental participant within the ’90s and into the early 2000s.
Narcos: Mexico Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.