Should you watch El Chapo?
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El Chapo
Series · 2017
A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
The sides of El Chapo
- A Sinaloa farm boy who becomes a kingpin
- Cartel deals and government deals
- Two prison escapes and a last capture
El Chapo is good for you if…
- you want the three decades of a real cartel rise, year by year.
- you like watching who owns the police and the politicians.
- you can follow a man whose trade ruins lives and still want to know what he does next.
El Chapo is bad for you if…
- you won't read subtitles through three seasons in Spanish.
- you can't sit through the executions and the torture.
About: power · impunity · the drug war
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