By When we last visited Narcos Land, a jaded Javier Peña had resigned from the DEA. Following Pablo Escobar's death in season two, the Cali cartel initially enjoy the fruits of a booming business before announcing they were leaving the cocaine trade to pursue legal business ventures.
If you thought, as it might have appeared, that the series was wrapping up, fear not as the fourth season is going back to explore the roots of the modern drug war.
Watch below for the UK exclusive of the trailer for Narcos: Mexico which premieres on Netflix this November.
Narcos have swapped the regimented Cali Cartel in Colombia for the loose and disorganised confederation of independent dealers in Mexico. From this sprung the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1980s where Félix Gallardo unified traffickers in order to build an empire.
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (“Félix”) was the leader of the Guadalajara cartel and went on to become of the biggest narcos in the history of Mexico. He is credited as the founder of the modern Mexican drug trade and the show will track how his operation became so sophisticated and the betrayals and bloodshed along the way.
In the new season DEA agent Kiki Camarena (Michael Peña) moves his wife and son from California to Guadalajara to take on a new post, unaware of what he is taking on. As Kiki garners intelligence on Félix Gallardo (Diego Luna) through informants, a tragic chain of events unfold which forever alters the drug trade and war against it.
The Netflix series has faced recent controversy as location scout Carlos Muñoz Portal, employed by the show, was shot dead while working in Mexico last year. Shortly after the distressing news, Pablo Escobar's brother warned against coming to Colombia and filming without his "blessing", saying "this is my country." Those cartels ain't no joke.
Narcos: Mexico premieres globally November 16
