By Alex Edwards
Pablo Escobar may be dead, but the cartels are long from becoming extinct. Or at least in Narcos, that’s how it is.
Netflix recently announced its original series will be back for a third season this autumn after a cliffhanger ending during last year’s finale. The last episode – spoiler alert – featured a bloody ending to Pablo Escobar, but that doesn’t stop any of the Colombia drug lords. In fact, it just helps them rise to the top. Which is why S3 follows the DEA as they turn their attention to the corruptly powerful Cali Cartel, one of the biggest organizations most of us have never even heard of.
The Cali Cartel is led by four powerful godfathers, and is one of the richest drug cartels in the world. Rather than show off their wealth and violence like we’ve seen during previous seasons of Narcos, they prefer to bribe the government and stay out of the spotlight. It’s an entirely new kind of hunt for beloved DEA agent Javier Peña (Pedro Pascal) along with American and Colombian law enforcement.
The newest characters to star in S3 are mostly the Kings behind the Cali Cartel: leader Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (Damian Alcazar), leader Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela (Francisco Denis), hit-man Pacho Herrera (Alberto Ammann) and leader Chepe Santacruz Londono (Pepe Rapazote). It looks like the rules have changed for the narcos and those after them this season, and we can’t wait to see how that causes things to unravel.
Watch the trailer below…
Season 3 of Narcos will premiere globally on Netflix on 1 September.