In season two of Narcos Mexico, Felix Gallardo has his eyes set on further expansion.
Not content to simply transport the Colombian’s cocaine, he wants to push them out and get into
selling the product himself. But that plan was a lot easier said than done,
especially when he has to deal with the constant in-fighting of his plaza leaders.
In Juarez, Amado is forced to play a reluctant babysitter role to Pablo Acosta,
who is shirking his leadership duties to play house with an American woman named Mimi
and going off on honorable revenge missions against a rival. Amado manages to mostly keep
Acosta in line, but Acosta’s head is no longer in the game and he’s searching for a way out.
In Sinaloa, tired of having to deal with the Arellano Felix family in Tijuana,
Chapo devises his own route to traffic drugs across the US/Mexico border. Buying a warehouse
in Mexico and a plot of land in America, Chapo starts work on an underground tunnel
that would cut out any business ties the Sinaloans would need with Tijuana.
In Tijuana, Benjamin’s sister Enedina strikes up a secret side deal with Isabella to use
the Tijuana plaza’s resources to traffic their own supply of cocaine into America.
Meanwhile, Benjamin is constantly bickering with Sinaloa heads Palma, Cochiloco, and Chapo,
eventually escalating into a violent and deadly tit-for-tat, which includes murders on both sides
and the destruction of Chapo’s underground tunnel. Eventually, Benjamin pressures
Felix into allowing him to make the ultimate power move, ordering the death of Cochiloco.
And it’s not just the plaza leaders that are causing problems for Felix
Gallardo’s Federation expansion plans. DEA Agent Walt Breslin and his team from
Operation Leyenda are utilizing any means necessary to take Felix down.
Eventually, they manage to capture Ruben Zuno Arce, the owner of the house Kiki Camarena was
murdered in. Arce had incriminating dirt on Felix that’d put him away for good,
but he refuses to testify in front of the Grand Jury. This loss puts an official end to Operation
Leyenda, but Walt and his team are given the go-ahead to continue their mission off book.
Walt’s next move is offering Pablo Acosta a plea deal that would allow him to enter
witness protection in America with Mimi, but unfortunately for him, Acosta is also
a target of the FBI and DFS, who kill Acosta in an assault on the small town he was hiding in.
With his plaza heads constantly at odds and the DEA closing in on him, Felix has to get
creative and ruthless in his moves throughout season two. When Palma is caught scheming behind
Felix’s back following the death of Cochiloco, Felix calls for Palma’s death. The Sinoloan
leader manages to evade the hit, but his wife and children aren’t as lucky. When a new, progressive
presidential candidate wins the Mexican election, Felix has his men storm polling stations to alter
the votes in favor of Felix’s political allies. Felix’s plan to push the Colombians out of the
cocaine business backfires when they cut a deal with Guerra, leader of the Gulf region,
to transport their supply. To keep the Colombians happy, Felix vastly overcompensates and promises
to transport as much cocaine as the Colombians could give him, a sum totaling about 70 tons.
Walt’s team plans a raid on the 70 ton shipment of cocaine, but when they arrive at the airstrip,
they discover they’ve fallen into a trap. Most of Walt’s team is killed, and he barely
escapes with his own life. Felix manages to successfully transport the 70 tons of cocaine,
and Walt’s failure leads to him being reassigned back to America.
Feeling back on top, Felix tips off law enforcement in California about the location
of 20 tons of Colombian coke. This led to the largest cocaine seizure in history. This
weakens the Colombians enough for Felix to finally get what he’s been after all season,
his own supply of cocaine to sell. But that’s where Felix’s successes come to
an end. At a meeting with the Plaza heads to inform them of the new cocaine deal,
they all instead withdraw from the Federation. The deaths of Cochiloco, Palma’s family,
and Felix’s continuing power trips had pushed them all over the edge. And so the Federation
disbanded, with Benjamin and the Arellano Felix family continuing to run Tijuana, Palma, Azul,
and Chapo running Sinaloa, Amado and Aguilar running Juarez, and Guerra and his family running
the Gulf. With the disbandment of the Federation, Felix had lost all of his power. Looking to
appease the American government, Mexican officials were finally on board to arrest Felix,
and he no longer had the power to stop them. And so, Felix Gallardo was finally taken into custody.
As the season comes to a close, Walt Breslin, now working under Jaime in the DEA’s El Paso office,
pays a visit to Felix in prison. And though the leader of the Guadalajara cartel was now
finally behind bars, Felix assured Walt that the worst was yet to come. With no leader keeping the
various cartel heads in line, chaos would ensue. And that chaos would lead to the Mexican Drug War.
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