Back in DC, the episode made clear that even the countrys obscure corners were vulnerable. In Narcos, David spends the whole third season looking like a time bomb that's one hair trigger away from exploding. As younger men they were both members of the Medellin cartel (via New Republic). The United States would also seek to block loans from international organizations. Afterward, Samper went on television to say that he had answered all "the lies" and vowed to serve out his term. This document is in reference to the nine congressional members and two others accused of receiving money from the Cali Cartel. Married: January 16, 1988 - August 12, 1994, Source(s): becomes full A family friendly community originally developed "Thank you for helping me find my family & friends again so many years after I lost them. Former M19 guerrilla Gustavo Petro is currently in the Colombian senate, having previously served as mayor of Bogota (via Colombia Reports). Well, apart from the bit where they miss out all his insane connections to paramilitaries, white supremacists, military hardliners, and his pre-Cali role in masterminding assassination attempts (via NACLA). [15] Just after Medina's arrest, Samper gave a unscheduled, nationally televised address where he admitted the possibility that drug money had gone to his campaign. September 28: Chancellor Rodrigo Pardo, while on an official visit to the US, quickly repudiates Serpa's comments. See also. Willie Lee, Billy Joe, Larry, and Otis Chambers ran half of Detroits crack trade, supplying 500 crack dens and operating 200 more; one scholar called their operation an alternative to Little League. Prosecutors found one Marianna teen working 24-hour days, passing parcels to addicts through a hole in the wall, caring sleepily for her baby when things got slow. Like the eventual winner, Csar Gaviria, Samper was from the reformist wing of the party. His mere presencetauntingly beyond the reach of police, who cant even find a decent mug shot for wanted posterssuggests the scale of the task the Obama administration faces. At one stage, they owned a bank in Panama together, and both were equally instrumental in the "Death to Kidnappers" project to hit back at guerrilla groups, which is something Narcos depicts as completely excluding Cali. In 1982, FARC began moving into cocaine production and shipping, a move which saw its capacity as an army grow to crazy levels. Presidential elections took place on 29 May 1994. Then George W. Bush took over drug policy and, Carnevale told me, shifted back to an 80s-style budget, heavy on overseas interdiction and anti-drug advertisingthe least effective programs. Rather than doing so under Escobar's orders, M19 attacked the Palace of Justice after President Betancur violated a ceasefire agreement with the group. Biography. The campaign had assumed that Ernesto Samper would win the election easily in the first round and had spent all of their campaign funds to achieve this. Formed in 1964, FARC started out as a gang of impoverished men who wanted to carve out their own state separate from Colombia. He turned the money down. When 2 or more people share their unique perspectives, In the late 1970s, a young Jamaican man named Vivian Blake, a scholarship kid from the Tivoli Gardens ghetto of Kingston, arrived in New York as part of a traveling cricket exhibition, stuck around, and began selling marijuana. There are conspiracy theories pointing the finger at everyone from Search Bloc, to the Colombian police, to Escobar himself committing suicide (although that last one is unlikely). Showrunner Eric Newman put it like this: "we've sort of put Pena as our one continuous character and made him representative of the DEA and the management in Colombia at the time," which is producer speak for "yeah, it's all bull poop, but it's poop that makes excellent TV!". July 26: Santiago Medina is imprisoned for having received drug money. So, the penultimate episode of Narcos season two was weird, right? 8,000 Process was the case number issued by the Prosecutor General's Office. Escobar himself made very clear it was so if they were captured and tortured they couldn't give information on him. April 25: The Attorney General's Office sends a document filed under the number "8,000" to the Supreme Court of Justice. we begin to Show & Tell who they were during particular moments in their lives. As Biography describes, the real Pena had nothing to do with taking down Cali. In the list there were the names of several congressmen, political figures and athletes. September 6: Santiago Medina gives further details to the Prosecutor General's Office. Serpa said the testimony had come from "anonymous sources", but they were allegedly stolen from the prosecutor's office. The real son of Miguel Rodriguez, William not only didn't die in a hail of bullets but according to theMiami Herald, is also mighty annoyed Narcos thinks he did. Read full bio Most Popular The Steal - Volume II: The Impossible Occurs: Access Denied, Impossible . Pastrana was the runner up, with 45%. A critical turning point in Narcos' second season comes when the Medellin cartel detonates a bomb at a Cali cartel wedding party. AncientFaces is a place where our memories live. It's a major turning point in Narcos, the moment when Escobar finally wins election to the Colombian Congress. Luis Guzman, who played Jos Gonzalo Rodrguez Gacha in season one, just stuck with his Puerto Rican accent. [] She lived like a queen. Add Joe's birthday or the date he died to see a list of historic events Additionally, warehouses and apartments of key witnesses in the "8,000 process" have been ransacked. No proof of spying was ever found. He had family connections to the darker sides of Colombia's military, connections that saw him spearhead an attempt in the late 1980s to assassinate FARC's leadership. After the election, the new government tried to drive the posses off the island, and many arrived in New York and Miami, fully formed, violent organizations, deprived of their political purpose and looking for something to do. [8] Colombian electoral law states that if no candidate wins more than 50% + 1 vote in the first round, a second round between the two candidates who achieved the highest number of votes in the first round shall take place to identify a winner. In 1959, on August 8th, Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States. Or should we say, he liked the girls. Biography. To their credit, these actors mostly attempted local accents. With an intelligence apparatus encompassing hotel clerks, corrupt policemen and politicians and a taxi fleet of several thousand, the movements of police and army units are constantly monitored. Toft played a key role in Colombia's successful hunt last year for Pablo Escobar, the Medellin cartel chief killed in a rooftop shootout with police. and you'll be alerted when others do the same. One party in the 1980s ended with Medellin police discovering the abused bodies of 24 teenage girls. After spending two seasons lurking around looking menacing, Juan Sebastian Calero's Navegante emerged in Narcos' third season as a brutal hit man with a love of intimidation, torture, and other things that would be a major no-no on your average Tinder profile. This triggers a chain of events that winds up with Cali allying with right-wing paramilitaries and the wife of a dealer murdered by Escobar, Judy Moncada (Dolly Moncada in real life), to bring the war onto the streets of Medellin. NarcosSeason 2 ends with most of the major characters dead, in hiding, or with no conceivable reason to continue being in Colombia. But no other group has been portrayed so oddly as M19. Officials estimate the organization launders somewhere between $2 billion and $6 billion a year in Colombia, making drugs the country's largest business. Samper is a member of the influential Samper family. Where we share as we remember & make discoveries and connect with others to help answer questions. Martinez is still alive today, but Narcos was right that Escobar tried his damnedest to murder him. Medina's complete testimony is published. [5] In 1974, he became a professor of law and economics at his alma mater, the Pontifical Xavierian University. According to theGuardian, the Cali cartel at one point hired a British mercenary to bomb Escobar's estate from a military attack helicopter. Samper is a collateral descendant of Antonio Nario's, paternal grandson of writer Daniel Samper Ortega[es], grandson in direct line of businessman Tomas Samper Brush, and grandson of the politician Miguel Samper Agudelo, who was a presidential candidate in 1898. Did Joe finish grade school, get a GED, go to high school, get a college degree or masters? The prosecutor also charged Samper, who insisted on his innocence. In thousands of raids on farms, houses, apartments and office buildings, police have found and seized weapons, drugs, money andmost importantlybusiness documents, accounts books and lists of payments essential to unraveling the drug lords' multi-billion dollar property and investment empire and their systematic bribes to politicians and other official protectors. September 5: The President's defense attorney states that during the presidential campaign, certain individuals illegally benefited themselves by appropriating some of the donated money. At that point producer Eric Newman had heard of them and invited them to chat about making the series that would become Narcos. Samper is related to several other Colombians of note. His subsequent campaign was conducted with strict regard for security, including wearing bullet-proof vests and being accompanied by a security detail of over 400. Hence their effectiveness as part of Los Pepes. Editorial Assistant. In his inauguration speech, he made the drug war a special priority while warning that no one was in a position to lecture Colombia on how to fight that war. Samper left office on 31 January 2017. Our tragedy, he said, is that we live in Technicolor, and the United States judges us in black and white. Washingtons response was similarly measured: Toft no longer worked for the government, officials explained, but they declined to address the substantive point. See how AncientFaces connects us to our past, builds meaningful relationships in our present, and preserves for the future AncientFaces is your place to remember people through photos and stories. But in the early 90s, a low-level Mexican trafficker named Jesus Amezcua stumbled upon a solution. Crunching the numbers, he determined that spending on domestic law enforcement was cost-effective, while policing efforts in Mexico and Colombia provided little bang for the buck. While the movie pitches all leaned too heavily into glamorizing Escobar to fly with the agents, they did start doing speaking tours right up until they retired from the DEA in 2013. Joe A. Toft was born c. 1943. In a recent interview, Samper acknowledged the problem of infiltration by the Cali cartel, saying "corruption in institutions is more damaging than a bomb planted by Pablo Escobar." DEA agents chasing the supply found themselves at factories in China and India, pondering a new reality. It's a powerful moment, and it more or less really happened the "more" part being that Escobar really did get elected to the Senate and really did get denounced, the "less" part being that his political career didn't last a single day. [citation needed], Gustavo de Greiff, Colombia's outgoing Chief Prosecutor cleared Samper of wrongdoing,[12] after what critics termed a "less-than-exhaustive" investigation. August 17: In a televised address, Andrs Pastrana suggests that the President should take a leave of absence until the investigations are completed. Yet Toft has lamented the failures in the fight against the rival Cali gang, which supplies about 80 percent of the 700 to 1,000 metric tons of cocaine sold yearly in the United States and Europe. Previously cities included Livermore CA and Austin TX. As played by Boyd Holbrook, DEA agent Steve Murphy is the lynchpin of the first two seasons ofNarcos. One of his great great grandfathers, Teodoro Valenzuela Sarmiento, was the nephew of the former president and hero of the Independence of Colombia, Crisanto Valenzuela Conde. This is what made the eventual war between them so brutal, as they knew exactly where to strike to inflict maximum damage. As Newman points out in the interview, it's known that Escobar died before his dad, so it's entirely possible that something like what happened on the show is close to the truth. But that's not because they were more urbane than Escobar's men. Opposition was also expressed by the media, political groups, and other segments of Colombian society. [36], On 1 March 1996, after an annual review of narcotics programs in 140 countries, U.S. President Clinton cut off most of his country's over $1billion of economic aid to Colombia, saying that Colombia's government was too corrupt to combat its country's drug lords, although Colombia would continue to receive $37million in aid to combat narcotics trafficking. This was seen as a coup for Vargas. Editorial Assistant. On September 29, 1994, a former DEA agent named Joseph Toft, well known in Colombia for his starring role in Pablo Escobars death the previous year, sat down with some TV reporters in Bogot. As real-life Pena put it: "We never signed him up as a DEA informant, but he was at the base and I could always tell there was something weird". He says: "Joe Toft, Stephan Javier, some other US government officials, were co-located with the Colombian national police in Search Bloc, and this is actually where the police planned most of. He served as the President of Colombia from 1994 to 1998, representing the Liberal Party. It started almost as soon as they returned from Bogota. August 24: Jacquin Strouss, Colombia's First lady, testifies before the Prosecutor General's Office. With the subsequent success of the show, Murphy and Pena now travel the world doing press junkets and speaking to audiences of thousands. August 13: Local news media reveal that the Cali. She leads a diverse team tackling issues ranging from coastal and marine spatial planning to ways to mitigate the impacts of climate change across our region. However, Samper vowed in his inaugural address -- as well as in a letter to the U.S. Senate and a recent visit to Washington -- to continue Colombia's fight against drug trafficking. Historically, not so much. Here, Amezcua realized, was something he could produce himself. But while the basic outlines of the Castao's backstory is broadly true, Narcos did miss out one crucial detail. Y'know, the one where fugitive Escobar grows a beard and goes to visit that old peasant dude living on a farm only for us to discover the peasant is his dad, and then the two spend like 45 minutes fixing fences together? This led to the resignation of former President and Ambassador of Colombia to the United States, Andrs Pastrana, who criticized the decision. Manuel Castells went into some depth in his book End of the Millennium. Joe loves all sports, and spends most of his weekends playing or watching football, or trying not to lose too many . President Ernesto Samper responded angrily today to the declarations, which aired late Thursday. Although Samper's campaign treasurer, Santiago Medina, came under investigation, Valdivieso refused to re-open the "narco-cassette case" that had been closed by de Greiff. In 2016, Sebastian Marroquin, the real-life son of Pablo Escobar, posted a lengthy Facebook rant where he identified 28 inaccuracies in Season 2 of Narcos. 7 death records. The Cali gangsters hated Escobar and gave police detailed intelligence data on his movements. The real agents became Hollywood celebrities. Official Sites, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Soon afterwards, a series of damaging tape recordings were released to the public. TheAssociated Press reported on the peace deal. About Us; Blog; Pop-Ups & Events; Featured Brands; Get in Touch ", Of course, there's an open question as to how much of a willing accomplice the real Tata (Maria Victoria Henao) can be called, given that whole "married to Escobar aged only 15" thing. [3], Ernesto was born on 3 August 1950[1] in Bogot, to Andrs Samper Gnecco and Helena Pizano Pardo. So, so many spoilers below From the get-go, Narcos makes one thing clear about its version of Pablo Escobar. Valdivieso was a cousin of the late Luis Carlos Galn, a charismatic Liberal party presidential candidate assassinated in 1989 by the Medelln Cartel for his political views, particularly for favoring the extradition of drug lords to the United States. December 19: Valdivieso states that he is looking into reopening the case of the narco-cassettes. AsThe Guardian reports, the producers sourced actors from all over the Americas to play the Colombian characters. Although the attempt failed, it was evidently impressive enough that it landed Salcedo on Cali's radar. joe toft: Death: Immediate Family: Son of james toft and Mary westwell Husband of sarah smithson Father of james toft; rhoda toft; martha toft; mary ellen toft; elizabeth toft and 2 others; Brother of ellen toft and Private . Like the fictional David, William was involved in the family business. Speaking to Hollywood Reporter, real-life DEA agent Chris Feistl explained that Salcedo was holed up in fear of his life when the real Navegante died, and we still don't know who pulled the trigger. [citation needed], According to the Colombian Constitution, only Congress can judge the president. We've all seen that photo of him dead on the Internet the only question is what depths he will plumb before the bullet finally catches him. According to his own son, Escobar used to boast about his crimes and warn his kids they might become victims themselves. As showrunner Eric Newman toldThe Hollywood Reporterwhen asked about the truthfulness of the episode, "That was invented in terms of the content." Eww. This is a big, crazy guy with big, crazy appetites. See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro Gee, who would want to kill such a fine, upstanding citizen? September 30: Joe Toft, former DEA director for Colombia, in an interview for local media defines Colombia as a narcodemocracy, and states that Samper's campaign was partially financed by drug money from the Cali Cartel. Narcos is right on one point, though. Other names that Joe uses includes Jose A Toft, Joe A Toft and Joe Albert Toft. ", Times Narcos Lied To You About What Really Happened. Inexpensive, too! Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. In fact, Cali and Medellin were so close that they knew one another's operations intimately. Hollywood Reporter quotes her as saying of Escobar-era Colombia, "I would have never left my husband there!". On the other hand, Pablo could've done literally anything while on the run. Joe's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Toft family tree. How old is Swoosie Kurtz? Biographies are our place to remember and discover more about the people important to us. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Biography submission guide. Now controlling about 80 percent of the global multibillion-dollar cocaine trade, the loose-knit Cali syndicate is considered to be one of the most difficult criminal enterprises to penetrate. [27] On 14 December 1995, despite the publication in the magazine Cambio of the details of Pallomari's accusations,[28] the congressional commission voted against opening a formal investigation into the charges against Samper, although Colombian justice officials continued to investigate. This was an even bigger issue when you realize that the script absolutely nailed 1980s paisa slang, which, in Moura's Brazilian twang, now entered the uncanny valley. Interestingly, one extremely surreal attempted bombing was left out the show. With just one click you can see the entire article information. The finale of NarcosSeason 2 is the culmination of two years of storytelling. Anti-narcotics officials say drug-related corruption has reached unprecedented levels after last year's killing of Escobar, who had been blamed for the deaths of thousands of people. The US State Department once called Fidel Castao "more ferocious than Escobar.". 'The search force raids suspected drug houses and possible hideouts, to try to flush them into movement. "I cannot think of a single political or judicial institution that has not been penetrated by the narco-traffickers. Joe Toft was born on 11/27/1942 and is 79 years old. When Colombia's government dismantled this faux state with bullets, the farmers fled for the jungle. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. Toft's remarks put the United States in the awkward position of heralding bilateral relations that only months ago were severely strained over the Colombian attorney general's policy of leniency toward drug traffickers and allegations that Samper's presidential campaign had accepted donations from drug kingpins. Unsurprisingly given the series' genre, that relationship is a classic informer/informant one, with Don Berna slowly feeding Pena information that benefits both the DEA, and psychopathic paramilitary group Los Pepes. But it also does a disservice to the real Connie. Bilateral relations also received a boost in August with the retirement of controversial Attorney General Gustavo de Grieff, whose policies had prompted the United States to cut off an evidence-sharing program. Escobars takedown, he said, was a sham; the whole operationits politics, its executionwas designed to benefit the Cali cartel, whose leaders had enlisted the government to murder their top rival. The showrunners used him as a useful receptacle for stuff many DEA agents did at the time. They decide to try to get more information about Gacha from Joe Toft, the former DEA Special Agent in Charge in Colombia. [6], Samper unsuccessfully ran for the Liberal Party's nomination for president in 1990. Link to family and friends whose lives he impacted. According to the Daily Beast, Pablo generally wasn't inclined toward more experienced women. June 21: Samper rejects such proposition, denies allegations of drug money entering his campaign, and requests a formal investigation of the charges. [citation needed] On 26 September 1995, Samper was questioned for nine hours by Heine Mogolln, the head of the Chamber of Representatives' Accusation Commission, at Samper's own request. Additionally, the US revoked Samper's visa and thereby effectively banned him from entering the country. In the taped phone conversations leaked to the press in June, Cali cartel bosses were heard discussing making donations to Samper's campaign. One of the last great political proxy fights of the Cold War was then unfolding in Jamaica: Both the left-wing party, friendly to Castro, and its right-wing opponents built violent electioneering posses to persuade friendly voters and attack unfriendly ones800 Jamaicans died. Netflix's Narcos has probably been responsible for teaching more Americans about Colombian history than decades of Discovery documentaries combined (and the same for Mexico with its spinoff Narcos: Mexico). Joe loves all sports, and spends most of his weekends playing or watching football, or trying not to lose too many . Not that his fellow Congressmen were under any illusions: The justice minister, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, publicly denounced him as a gangster. Keeler was also involved with the Soviet naval attach and charges of espionage were feared. Add Joe's family friends, and his friends from childhood through adulthood. Be the first to contribute! August 10: Cancino states before the commission that he possesses irrefutable evidence to vindicate Samper. It's probably Narcos' most Hollywood moment, and it feels weirdly out of place in a series that otherwise prides itself on being realistic. Share what Joe did for a living or if he had a career or profession. The Bolivian-born Toft has retired from the DEA. Where was Joe born and where did he live? After demobilization, many M19 members were killed by cartels, including leader Carlos Pizarro Leongomez. According to his family tree, he married Maureen (Mccann) Toft on January 16, 1988 in Texas and they later separated on August 12, 1994 in Texas .We know that Joe A. Toft had been residing in Bexar County, Texas . The tragedy of Carnevales initiative was its timing. As played by Wagner Moura, Narcos' Escobar is a guy who wants power, pleasure and money, and will go to horrific lengths to obtain them. Ernesto Samper Pizano (born 3 August 1950) [1] is a Colombian politician. 3 birth, 7 death, 2 marriage, 2 divorce, View According to Biography, Escobar sat in the Senate for two whole years before being ejected. [17] Medina was later convicted, and sentenced to prison. Among them was the bombing of Gilberto Rodriguez's daughter's wedding. On September 29, 1994, a former DEA agent named Joseph Toft, well known in Colombia for his starring role in Pablo Escobar's death the previous year, sat down with some TV reporters in Bogot.. Colombia Reports notes the fire that destroyed Escobar's records likely came from military rockets. According toNACLA,Cali was the first major cartel to arise in Colombia, but it had no interest in being the only one. The US revoked Samper 's campaign Medina is imprisoned for having received drug.... 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