10 Biggest Changes Netflix’s Narcos Made To Real Life

Dramatizing the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his associates, Netflix’s Narcos was an interesting recreation of a turbulent era in modern history even if the show did make some major changes to the real-life story. In its three-season run, Narcos chronicled the rise of drug kingpins like Escobar in 1980s-era Colombia and went on to capture the efforts by law-enforcement authorities to nab them up until the 1990s. Beyond the specifics of the drug trade, the wildly successful Netflix original incorporated many other socio-political elements that changed the face of South America in the 20th century’s final decades.