What happened to the 'Narcos' location scout found dead in Mexico?
damn. he really thought "I'm a hollywood scout, looking up locations for Netflix" would protect him. Think scoping out locales without local permission in territory where the gdp is based on the drug market, makes you untouchable, pobrehcitos. Let your life become a headline and Make yourself a victim of avoidable circumstances for a media corporation that uses you as a crash test dummy for locations.
Reporting from Mexico City —
As a location scout for Hollywood projects filming in his native Mexico, Carlos Munoz Portal spent his workdays roaming the country, searching for landscapes that would look great on screen. By age 37, he had racked up an impressive list of credits that included the drug war thriller “Sicario” and the James Bond film “Spectre.”
Last week, Munoz hopped in the car to hunt for locations for a new client: “Narcos,” the hyper-violent Netflix series that chronicles the lives of Latin American drug kingpins.
Several hours later, he was dead.
Local police found Munoz in his car slumped over in the driver’s seat in a field about an hour north of Mexico City, according to the attorney general’s office in Mexico state. He had been shot multiple times.
Beyond that, authorities have no idea what happened, said Claudio Barrera Vargas, a spokesman for the attorney general. The area where Munoz was discovered was rural and remote, Barrera said, and no witnesses had come forward.
In Mexico, as filmmakers mourned the loss of one of the country’s most respected location scouts, some couldn’t help but note that the mystery surrounding the apparent slaying felt like a “Narcos” plot line. While the first three seasons of the series tracked the rise and fall of Colombia’s drug kingpins, an upcoming season is expected to focus on Mexico, where the military and competing drug cartels have been locked in a 10-year battle that has killed more than 100,000 people.
Mexico is on track to set a new record for violence this year, with 14,190 homicide investigations opened nationwide in the first seven months.
“Violence in Mexico surpasses fiction,” read the headline in El Pais, the newspaper that first reported Munoz’s death.
. That Cuban accent man.....one of a kind.
