TheForge wrote:
Now it makes sense why the colonel's name, Carrillo was different than the guy he is based on. Everybody but him had their true names. His replacement seems To be the real real guy Martinez. But Martinez was the original and only commander of search bloc. So it looks like the took a little license with the character. Maybe to disassociate some of the suspected controversial tactics associated with search bloc under Martinez.
Yeah, I kind of wondered the same thing as to why up to that point it seemed Martinez was portrayed as the fictional character Carrillo.
My guess is that since Martinez is still alive and well in Colombia that the producers wanted to tone down what he actually did as to not pile on the controversy.
Which is odd because much has been written about what he and Search Bloc did all those years.
You would think the real life Pena and Murphy wouldn't want their involvement so prominently displayed either. I'm sure the show leans heavy on the action narrative when it comes to those guys but it appears they committed about 1000 different acts that could be considered crimes in both Colombia and the USA. :-)
Now statute of limitations are what they are (and Colombia has a 20 year SoL on murder) but neither of them come off smelling like roses. Bad guys are bad guys but laws are laws.
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