All language subtitles for Narco Wars 1x10 - The Last Don (English)

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Shake this square world
and blast off for Kicksville.

Public enemy number one is drug abuse.

Just say "No".

Halting the drug problem in America

is like carrying water in a sieve.

Take my word for it,
this scourge will stop!

There's now an understanding

that the war on drugs
was an abject failure.

You have to stop and ask
yourself, how did we get here?

We will build a wall.

The Armed Revolutionary
Forces of Colombia,

known as the FARC,

is the most powerful
guerrilla group in the country.

They control the areas
where large amounts

of the world's cocaine is produced.

They are known as paramilitaries.

They celebrate a
legend of heroic defiance

against the kidnappers.

The mission is to achieve
what the army cannot:

Defeat the guerrillas.

12 died and more than
200 passersby were injured

in this recent explosion.

Another outrage was to follow,

this time there was no
mistaking the culprit's identity.

They'd left their
signature at the scene.

Pablo Escobar couldn't
stay out of the public eye,

and that's what killed him.

He died in a hail of bullets

as he tried to get
away across a roof.

In December 1993,
after Pablo Escobar is killed,

there is a power vacuum.

The FARC embraced drugs

and used them to fund
the revolutionary struggle

and the growth of the FARC,

and the growth of coca crops
in Colombia is a parallel line.

Wherever the coca is,
you tend to find the FARC.

Carlos is the public face,
extremely charismatic.

He wasn't from Medell�n.

He was actually from
Tulu� on the Pacific coast.

It is rumored that
he was, for a short time,

a left-wing guerrilla.

He is what we call a "lavaperro,"

which is like the lowest
rung in the criminal structure.

It literally means a dog washer.

And he proves his worth very quickly.

The guerrillas try and
muscle in on the cartel.

Berna says,
"Let me take care of this,"

and there is a series
of bloody shootouts

in which Berna takes anything
up to 11 bullets and loses his leg.

But they win.

Berna's not the most handsome man.

He was a lot less
handsome after he lost his leg

and took a bullet through the
cheek and various other things.

This does not hamper
his criminal career at all.

Pablo Escobar not only

was a drug trafficker,

but he was also an
entrepreneur of violence.

And he created
different groups, gangs.

When he dies, there's a vacuum,

and many of those gangs
are left with who controls it.

Don Berna learnt a key
lesson from Escobar,

which is never become
visible, remain in the shadows.

He arguably becomes more powerful

than Pablo Escobar ever was.

And the message is clear:
"We're coming."

People living in
Mapirip�n were suspected

of helping the FARC, providing
them with food and shelter.

As the paramilitaries entered,

they marked the town as their territory.

Villagers were taken from their homes.

The killing began in the main street.

Three villagers were publicly executed,

beheaded with chainsaws.

Many more perished.

None of the dead wore
uniforms or carried guns.

�Uno, dos, tres!

The cocaine trade hid
in Colombia's civil conflict.

And suddenly we have a right-wing

anti-subversive paramilitarism

which is welcomed in
so many parts of Colombia

against the guerrillas who
were kidnapping and extorting.

But this is just
the new Medell�n Cartel.

But it's cleverer.

It's got a political
fa�ade, it's militarized.

- Stop?
- Yeah.

Okay.

The Oficina de Envigado

was originally established to mediate,

to collect money that was owed.

And it was almost
like an internal affairs

operation of sorts.

Don Berna made it clear,
"I'm taking this over,

and if there's any pushback,

you're gonna have to deal with it."

And he turns this vehicle into his bid

to take control of Medell�n.

And he begins to scoop up a
lot of the criminal infrastructure

and set up these debt-collecting
agencies, or oficinas,

all around Medell�n,
and they all answer to him.

He understands
that his rise to power

and his own control of power
depends on his good standing

with the security state
and with politicians.

Corruption at all levels

was going through the roof.

He would do things that
would help the authorities,

and sometimes the authorities
would do things to help him.

They did operations together sometimes.

So nothing really
occurred unless Don Berna

or his higher
infrastructure approved it.

People often refer to homeless people

or these homeless children and so forth,

they call them "desechables,"
like the throw-aways.

And somebody's considered a
desechable, a disposable person,

doesn't mean you can
go out and kill them,

but that's what they did,
they cleaned up the streets.

And there was a scourge
of those kind of folks,

people disappeared, people
got killed, people got displaced.

They cleaned up the city,

and I think there was some
sense that at certain levels...

In other words, it was accepted
because of the outcome.

Berna sees what the
paramilitaries are doing,

and he goes, "This is an
extraordinary business model,

I want in."

So, there's lots of problems

within the paramilitary army.

If someone loses a load

or someone sleeps
with someone else's wife,

normally in the drug trafficking
world, there's violence.

Berna says, "No, we can sort this out."

He's not always successful,

but what he does is he
begins to put discipline

on the paramilitary movement.

Vicente's got a stutter,

not remotely charismatic, but
super able at the business side.

And they turn the paramilitary army,

and this need to counteract the advance

of the Marxist guerrillas,

into a nationwide criminal network,

a VIP club for drug traffickers.

And people begin to realize

this is just the most
powerful drug cartel there is;

dwarfs the power of the Medell�n Cartel.

And at that stage the paramilitaries

are the most powerful
criminal syndicate on the planet.

Muchas gracias.

And there really is a
fear in Colombian society

and also at high levels of government

that the FARC are actually gonna
manage to take over the country.

The main road to Medell�n

sometimes was a week closed

because of attacks from
the FARC to the road.

Bogot� is surrounded
by FARC fronts.

They were getting ready
to take over the capital.

People were abandoning
Colombia massively;

everybody was seeing
Colombia as a sinking ship.

And frankly, when you saw
the growth of the FARC,

the growth of the paramilitaries,

it was hard not to think

that Colombia could become
a narco state or a failed state.

We got to stand by these democracies,

including, and especially
tonight, Colombia,

which is fighting narco traffickers

for its own people's lives
and for our children's lives.

I have proposed
a strong two-year package

to help Colombia win this fight.

Plan Colombia was this
major billion-dollar effort

to bring the Colombian
military up to snuff

to be able to take on
the narco-traffickers.

And that meant training,
that meant weapons, technology.

It's also the point
at which counter-narcotics

and counter-insurgency
become explicitly the same thing.

Officially the United States

is fighting a war on drugs.

In practice, it is bankrolling conflict

against communist guerrillas.

The escalating threat
of communist takeover

becomes the justification for
increasingly overt alliance

with the narco-paramilitaries
as the most effective

fighting force against
the rising communist menace.

America's war on drugs
ignores the paramilitaries.

Instead, government
helicopters protect planes

dropping poison in
the coca fields below.

Their aim is to destroy the plantations

controlled by the FARC.

We have no relationship with the AUC.

By 2001, the extent of
paramilitary involvement

in the drug trade was
too blatant to ignore.

They claim to wish
to protect Colombian citizens

from other terrorist groups,

but they then massacre and
displace the same citizens,

and they claim to stand
against kidnapping and extortion,

and then engage in those very practices.

So, in this very weird twist of history,

the AUC gets designated an
official terrorist organization

the day before September 11th.

And then everything
changes again on 9/11.

The war on terror and the war
on drugs have now become one.

Prudencia, muchachos.

Prudencia.

President Uribe came up
with the Justice and Peace Plan,

which would give benefits
to paramilitary fighters

who decided to come in,
demobilize, disband,

surrender their weapons,
and stop drug trafficking

and any crimes that
they were involved in.

He wants to try to
reap the benefits

of the Justice and Peace Law,

which basically says if you're a
paramilitary and you surrender,

you would be eligible
for certain benefits

under the Justice and Peace Plan,

which are very reduced
sentences, under house arrest

or some kind of minimal confinement.

The Americans and
the Colombian public are seeing

that this peace process
is bordering on farce

as these guys continue to
move drugs, live the high life.

And so once the agreement is signed,

the constitutional court
changes all the rules,

and they are suddenly sucked
down into the prison system.

And then in 2008, what they all
feared, they're all extradited.

How do you measure
the success of Plan Colombia?

It's Colombia itself.

From a failed state

to the darling of
investment of what it is now.

Colombia is a beacon of stability.

Today people will tell
you that Plan Colombia's

a success despite
the human rights abuses

let loose on the Colombian countryside.

Vamos, vamos.

If the war on drugs is
in fact an effort to stop drugs

from entering the United States,

it is clearly an abysmal failure.

In that sense, we've poured
billions of dollars into a hole

and lit it on fire.