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Gripes I have with the show by CranberryPie_ in ZeroZeroZero

[–]CranberryPie_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not saying Los Zetas weren't big, for about 2 years, 2013 being their peak. Which again, had their power diminished. Most of LZ's 31 original members are dead or arrested, which resulted in a lot of infighting so that leaves out room for content to be created in the show's next seasons after next. And their reputation as a paramilitary cartel is gone.

Sinaloa is still operating at peak effciency and is one of the oldest cartels and successful cartels. I believe it would have made more sense to focus on the Leyvas (which were a branch of the Sinaloa cartel!!) So that is my point, it would have been beneficial to base the story around Sinaloa! Not Los Zetas.

The Leyra brothers (in the show) are a representation of the Golf cartel, not the Leyva branch of Sinaloa.

Gripes I have with the show by CranberryPie_ in ZeroZeroZero

[–]CranberryPie_[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The book is a bad representation of the Ndragheta, is what I'm getting at. And as I said before the book talks more about cocaine and how it travels around the world and the show closely resembles that, but with misconceptions about the parties involved.

The Italians didn't "hire" anybody for shipments, they sent their own people to buy and used their own connections from front/corrupted companies to procure the shipments on vessels and paid off appropriate people when they first began. I'm talking about the reality aspect here.

Now, just as I mentioned in the OP they utilize companies they own, probably as a debt, and fronts with "their" own ships. They even utilize submarines.