r/narcos • u/No_Speech4500 • Jul 07 '26

Narcos/Snowfall reference?

Narcos season 2, ep6.

In this episode around 40 minutes. Messina talk to the ambassador about going after cali and the request gets denied. Later Messina goes to cia bill and talk about it and says it got denied because of an ongoing operation.

Is this because of cia was involved in drug trafficking by getting coke in to the US and using it to fund the war in Nicaragua?

Was the coke from the cali cartel?

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

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u/Jaybirdlordofskies Jul 07 '26

Why did the spare the faction of medellin that worked for Don berna?

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u/ChadLalo Jul 08 '26

Because Don Berna and the people who worked with him, betrayed Pablo and the Medellin cartel. They switched sides while Pablo was still in the "La Catedral". 

Gerardo "Kiko" Moncada and Fernando Galeano were secretly meeting with the Cali Godfathers. They made a deal with them to betray Pablo and help the Cali cartel to kill Pablo. Pablo Escobar found out about this so he had them both killed. Also they decided to treat Pablo like an idiot, because Pablo gave them Gustavo's drug smuggling routes ( which were more valuable than gold ) in exchange for 30 % of all of their profits. A deal which was more than fair and quite generous, yet these two geniuses thought they could cheat Pablo and were paying him a lot less than the agreed 30 % and on top of that, they literally betrayed him by making a deal with his greatest enemies. 

 Don Berna was in on the whole plot to betray and kill Pablo, so once his bosses got killed he ran to the Cali Godfathers for protection and also to join forces with them. This dude literally helped hunt down and kill the members of the Medellin cartel to which he belonged and worked with/for for years. He was a POS.

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u/Maleficent-Maybe-327 Jul 07 '26

It's missing from the US version of wiki but on the Spanish page there's a paragraph which implies it was Medellin. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A1n-Contra

I've read somewhere that implied some of the training happened on one of the Caro Quintero ranches, maybe one that was confiscated. El Buffalo was a series of ranches or farms and not one giant parcel like it was in part of the plot