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NP/wire say Netflix panned for glorifying criminality

2024-02-13 08:36 ET - In the News

The National Post reports in its Tuesday, Feb. 13, edition that Netflix has plastered the globe with advertisements for its new show Griselda, based on the life of Colombian drug trafficker Griselda Blanco. A Washington Post dispatch to the Post reports that in Bogota, the Colombian capital, billboards advertising the series are everywhere. However, the show -- which focuses on Ms. Blanco's rise as a top trafficker in 1970s Miami -- has garnered a chilly reception among some, who fear it glorifies a bygone era of rampant violence and drugs, and furthers stereotypes of Colombians as criminals exporting that turmoil to the United States and beyond. Colombians "have tried very hard to change" those perceptions of "everyone selling drugs and being very violent," said Maria del Rosario Leon, a 27-year-old resident of Bogota. Griselda, Daniel Santiago Paez, 31, who leads horseback riding tours at a ranch outside Bogota, said, "[It] just reinforces a stereotype of violence and drug consumption." The series has also been criticized for lack of input from Blanco's family. Her son Michael Corleone has filed a lawsuit in Florida arguing that the show was an "unauthorized" use of his mother's likeness and identity.

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