season one of narcos mexico follows dea
agent kiki camarena as he moves his
family from california to his new post
in guadalajara kiki is ambitious and
wants to bring real justice to the drug
trade in mexico but he quickly learns
that there are many roadblocks in the
mexican government preventing him from
doing his job correctly justice kiki is
arriving in guadalajara to make a name
for himself so too is miguel angel felix
gallardo felix is an ex-cop from sinaloa
working under pedro aviles but the
mexican government is constantly
interfering with their enterprise and
felix has his eyes set much higher he
convinces his boss to let him travel to
guadalajara to unify the various plazas
and form the first mexican cartel and
when aviles lacks the forward-thinking
vision of felix and tries to have him
killed for stepping out of line felix
has his former boss killed felix's
guadalajara cartel also known as the
federation not only had all of the
various plazas under its control but
also was in the pockets of important
figures in the government and law
enforcement making the whole
organization practically untouchable
helping felix lead this cartel was his
longtime friend and partner rafa and
aviles's old partner donato rafa has
developed a seedless strain of marijuana
making it lighter and easier to
transport with the resources of the
cartel behind him rafa is able to plant
a marijuana super farm covering over
1300 acres in the mexican desert there
were three main plazas in the
guadalajara cartel sinaloa juarez and
tijuana in sinaloa felix appointed palma
as leader with chapo and kochi loko
working under him juarez was led by
pablo acosta but felix sent donato's
nephew amado to help run things and in
tijuana felix passed up his old friend
isabella to let benjamin ariano felix
and his family run the plaza with the
power of his super farm and his network
of aligned plaza leaders felix gallardo
quickly becomes known as the godfather
and begins drawing the attention of the
dea but that doesn't stop his plans for
expansion and he soon got his eyes set
on an even more lucrative drug cocaine
felix heads to colombia to meet with
both the cali cartel and the medean
cartel run by pablo escobar and cuts a
deal to use his resources to transport
their cocaine into the u.s this deal
would bring in billions of dollars for
the federation but it's not all smooth
sailing for felix as he is constantly
having to solve problems created by his
associates rafa becomes addicted to
cocaine and grows increasingly
frustrated and erratic as felix's focus
shifts from rafa's weed to the
colombian's cocaine rafa even forms a
violent rivalry against a motto when
kiki camarena and his fellow dea agents
aided by the mexican government raid
rafa's marijuana plantation and burned
the whole thing to the ground the
conflict between the cartel and the dea
escalates into an all-out war felix
wants to move past losing the marijuana
crop knowing the real money was now in
the cocaine deal anyway but his allies
in the government pressure him into
retaliating by kidnapping kiki when
felix refuses not wanting to escalate a
war with the u.s government elizul the
director general of mexico's corrupt
federal security directorate or dfs
turns to rafa to get the job done rafa
on a cocaine bender and feeling
resentful that his farm was destroyed
agrees to the plan and so dea agent kiki
camarena is kidnapped by the cartel and
tortured for information on what intel
the u.s had on the federation knowing
his government allies had turned on him
felix implores rafa and donato to fleet
hoping to make peace on all sides felix
makes the decision to tip off the dea to
rafa's whereabouts this leads to rafa's
arrest which felix hopes will also lead
to kiki's rescue and put an end to the
dea's manhunt felix then decides to
retreat back to sinaloa and ask the
governor a father figure to him to aid
in his protection the governor agrees
for a steep price but later betrays
felix to the authorities kiki's boss of
the dea's guadalajara bureau jaime is
doing everything in his power to rescue
his friend but at every step in the
process corrupt members of mexican
government and law enforcement impede
his attempts after taking the
obstruction to the media and making
international headlines jaime is finally
able to make progress but unfortunately
it's too late and kiki's dead body is
discovered when law enforcement goes to
arrest felix following the cineloan
governor's tip-off jaime is forced to
sit on the sidelines after being deemed
too emotional and so when felix's
hideout is rated it's not jaime or any
other dea agent making the arrest it's
the mexican police led by camadante
calderoni who felix is able to cut a
deal with we learned that felix had
ultimately decided to take part in the
torturing and killing of kiki camarena
which led to a lot of incriminating
evidence felix offered up enough
evidence to put away ally donato while
he kept evidence he could use to
blackmail mexican government officials
re-solidifying his position as the head
of the guadalajaran cartel and so felix
escapes arrest and regains the backing
of his corrupt political allies in
felix's weakened position old friend
isabella had tried to stage a coup to
have tijuana leader benjamin felix take
over the entire federation but the newly
reempowered felix gallardo arrives to
crash the meeting dismisses isabella and
reclaims ultimate control as season 1
comes to a close a defeated jaime is set
to return to america but before he
leaves he is reassured that kiki
camarena's death would not go unpunished
and the mexican drug war would be played
by very different rules moving forward
the dea was beginning operation lienda
and sending a special task force led by
agent walt breslin previously the unseen
narrator of the first season to avenge
kiki's death and bring down the
guadalajaran cartel once and for all 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 infighting of his plaza leaders
in juarez amato is forced to play a
reluctant babysitter 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 headline 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
ariano felix family in tijuana chapeau
devises his own route to traffic drugs
across the u.s mexico border buying a
warehouse in mexico and a plot of land
in america chapo works on an underground
tunnel that would cut out any business
ties the cineloans would need with
tijuana and in tijuana benjamin's sister
in edina strikes up a secret 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 cochiloko 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 lienda are utilizing
any means necessary to take felix down
eventually they managed to capture ruben
zuno arsei the owner of the house kiki
camarena was murdered in orsay had
incriminating dirt on felix that put him
away for good but he refuses to testify
in front of the grand jury this loss
puts an official into operation lyanda
but walt and his team are given the
go-ahead to continue their mission off
book walt's next move is offering pablo
costa a plea deal that would allow him
to enter the witness protection program
in america with mimi but unfortunately
for him acosta is also a target of the
fbi and dfs who killed 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 palm is
caught scheming behind felix's back
following the death of kochi loko felix
calls for palma's death the sin alone
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 the polling stations to alter
the votes in favor of felix's political
allies felix's plans 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 leads 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 success has 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 cochiloko and 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 ariana felix family
continuing to run tijuana palma azul and
chapo running sinaloa amato 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 and that's
everything that's happened in narcos
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