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#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel

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American Made - What Did It Get Wrong?

Renaldo Ochoa was the one who killed Barry Seal. Renaldo is doing life in Louisiana, Favio wasn't paid for the hit. I think he's about to get out. He's been in 30 years or whatever. The movie American got almost everything wrong. It just didn't even, it was nothing. Whoever wrote it had no idea who Barry Seal was. They said in a rocking chair and just tried to think of what was some baby, fashion drug dealer doing. So they wanted to try to tell a fun story without actually studying the story. And Barry was such a nice person, such a really nice gentleman person.

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