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Feb 13, 2020 · Rubén Zuno Arce: Directed by Amat Escalante. With Diego Luna, Scoot McNairy, José María Yazpik, Gerardo Taracena. Multiple advisers counsel Félix to go into hiding as the Americans close in on the men involved in Kiki's murder. Amado helps Acosta resolve a feud.
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- Crime, Drama
- Amat Escalante
- 2020-02-13
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- Historical accuracy
Rubén Zuno Arce was a Mexican socialite and businessman, who served as the bridge between the Mexican government and the Guadalajara cartel.
In the early 1980s, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo paid Zuno $1 million for an introduction to Zuno's uncle, who was a powerful figure in the Mexican government. His uncle offered political protection to the Guadalajara Cartel, allowing it to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
Zuno warned Félix about a military raid on the Rancho Búfalo marijuana plantation moments before it took place. The military were successful in destroying the farm, causing losses up to $8 billion for Rafael Caro Quintero. He met up with Félix after the raid, and conveyed his uncle's order to abduct the DEA agent responsible for the raid, which Félix declined to execute. Despite Zuno's objections, Félix directly met Zuno's uncle and convinced him to not risk the business for one American agent.
In January 1986, he attended Félix's fortieth birthday party. In that same year, he was arrested by the United States Border Patrol and revealed to the DEA that he owned the mansion where Kiki Camarena was interrogated, tortured, and murdered. And that his uncle provided protection to Félix Gallardo. However, he denied that he knew Félix Gallardo in front of a grand jury.
In real-life, Zuno was more involved in cartel affairs. He owned the mansion at 811 Lope de Vega before selling it to Rafael Caro Quintero, who had DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and his pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar tortured and killed there. He was arrested by officials soon after Camarena's murder, and was extradited to the United Stat...
In real life, Mr. X wasn't Ruben Zuno Arce's uncle, it was actually his brother. That's how insanely close the President of Mexico was to the drug traffickers and the murder of Kiki Camarena. You can see why they wouldn't like a popular show like Narcos spilling that tea.
May 12, 2020 · In the episode Ruben Zuno Arce, the police caught up with Zuno after identifying him as a target. He had gone into hiding before they tricked him out of the compound and onto a private jet.
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Following Camarena's torture and murder by the cartel, DEA agent Walt Breslin brings a small covert squad of operatives to Mexico to track down and punish Gallardo and his associates. Cast and characters. Michael Peña and Diego Luna play the lead roles in Season 1 of Narcos: Mexico. Main.
Narcos: Mexico explores the origin of the modern war on drugs, beginning at the time when Mexican traffickers were a loose and disorganized confederation of small-time independent cannabis growers and dealers. The series dramatizes the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1980s as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo unifies the traffickers in order ...
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Ruben Zuno Arce is the third episode of Season 2 of Narcos: Mexico. It aired on February 13, 2020. Multiple advisers counsel Felix to go into hiding as the Americans close in on the men involved in Kiki's murder. Amado helps Acosta resolve a feud.
