Barry Seal was an adventure-loving pilot from Louisiana that lived life according to one simple rule: when a Nicaraguan prison gives you lemons, make lemonade for Pablo Escobar.
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Source/Further reading:
Real Narcos podcast series (three episodes): https://www.noiser.com/news/2020/4/17/noiser-launches-flagship-podcast-series-real-narcos
Link to the most-recent major book on Seal: https://www.amazon.com/Smugglers-End-Life-Death-Barry/dp/1455621005
Time, the true story behind American Made: https://time.com/4958361/american-made-movie-true-story/
Vice, the story of Barry Seal’s assassination: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w3mvw/an-fbi-agent-tells-story-behind-an-infamous-escobar-cartel-assassination
Washington Post’s take on the same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/03/10/quick-end-for-flamboyant-informer/25ffc288-45d5-4e83-aa56-45a03fcc6005/
History of the Medellin Cartel: https://www.medellinabrazasuhistoria.com/origin-of-the-medellin-cartel/?lang=en
History of Colombia: https://www.britannica.com/place/Colombia/La-Violencia-dictatorship-and-democratic-restoration
Drug War timeline: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9252490
Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2017/09/whats-fact-and-whats-fiction-in-american-made.html
Hollywood v History, what’s true and what’s not in American Made: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/american-made/
LA Times on the Washington Times’ exposure of Seal: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-28-mn-9956-story.html
Arrest and the CIA myth: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c9xODgAAQBAJ&pg=PT32#v=onepage&q&f=false
Iran-Contra: https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Contra-Affair
Sandinistas: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sandinista
In-depth article, but an untrustworthy source? https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/air-cocaine-the-wild-true-story-of-drug-running-arms-smuggling-and-contras-at-a-small-airstrip-in-clintons-arkansas/
