One of the most popular series on Netflix, and one that is part of the Top 2 on the streaming platform, is ‘La Reina del Sur’, a crime drama developed by MA Fortin and Joshua John Miller inspired by the 2011 Telemundo production.
This action-packed story follows Teresa Mendoza, a woman from Sinaloa, Mexico, who flees to the United States after the murder of her boyfriend and later builds her own drug empire.
Currently, this series has three seasons and fans are looking forward to a fourth, but did you know that the plot is based on true events?
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Who is Marllory Chacón, the inspiration for Netflix’s ‘La Reina del Sur’?
As published by Diez Minutos, ‘La Reina del Sur’ is a book launched in 2002 by the Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte, who was inspired by the story of a Guatemalan woman.
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Marllory Dadiana Chacón Rosell was one of the most acclaimed money launderers among the various Colombian drug cartels and is said to have raised over $200 million.
They release the drug dealer #Guatemalan Marllory Chacón Rossell, known as “The Queen of the South”; a judge of a court of #UNITED STATES the sentence reduced to 5 years after cooperating with the public prosecutor; Chacón led an organization that collaborated with the #Zetas And #CDS in #Mexico pic.twitter.com/jPHtu0TwTl
— Indomitable Wolf 🌿🍀☘️🌺 (@loba_indomable) March 4, 2019
El Heraldo indicated that the resident of the village of El Cerinal, Barberena, was born on April 10, 1972 and from the 1990s used her business skills in drug trafficking in a money laundering network.
Her success in illegal business was such that she quickly earned the nickname “Queen of the South” until she was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the United States in 2015.
She was sentenced to 26 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering, but Marllory Dadiana Chacón Rossell, better known as the Queen of the South, is now free.
For cooperation with the government of #UNITED STATES He came out on February 27 and now lives in Florida. pic.twitter.com/tVD6fectwD— Noise on the net (@RuidoEnLaRed) March 7, 2019
Although the woman never complied with this sentence, as she conducted a series of secret negotiations with the authorities of the North American country and was released in February 2019.
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It was even considered “one of the most prolific drug traffickers in Central America” and “Guatemala’s most active money launderer” by the Treasury Department, according to Prensa Libre.
Source: Eluniverso
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