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Back and Forth With The Cartel

• thedailybeast.com by Tom Sykes

When Pablo Escobar's surviving brother, Roberto, threatened the makers of 'Narcos' this week, he referenced a threatening legal letter. Now, that revealing document has surfaced.

In the hit Netflix series Narcos, which tells the story of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, viewers have repeatedly witnessed the violent ends that unfortunate victims meet when the kingpins of the Medellin cartel feel they are depriving them of a slice of the action.

Now, in what many observers will see as an entirely predictable case of life imitating art, the Escobar family is demanding a billion-dollar payout from Netflix, in an intellectual-property rights dispute.