In Scarface, the Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa was based on a real life Bolivian cocaine baron named Roberto Suárez Gómez - the so called “King of Cocaine” - and he was one of the most powerful crime figures in Latin American history.
Like Sosa, Suárez came from one of Bolivia’s most wealthy families. He was well educated and projected an image of a respectable family man - all the while running a cocaine empire that reportedly made over $400 million a year.
His family’s wealth began during the rubber boom of the late 19th century. They built a powerful commercial empire through rubber extraction by brutally exploiting the local Indigenous population. After the rubber industry collapsed in the early 1900s, cattle ranching became their main source of income.
Roberto inherited a business that had large swaths of land well suited for coca production, as well as a fleet of aircraft perfect for drug trafficking. When the cocaine boom took off in the mid-1970s, he repurposed those assets and quickly became the world's largest producer and supplier of coca paste - the base material used to make cocaine.
And much like Sosa, he had deep connections with Bolivia’s military, the CIA, and controlled his own private hit squad he used to take out his rivals. (1/5)
In 1944, 18-year-old Norma Jeane Baker was a recently-married factory worker aiding the war effort at an aviation facility.
When an Air Force photographer happened to spot her on the job, he took her picture and helped put her on the path to pin-up modeling and then movie stardom under a new name: Marilyn Monroe.
🎙️ Eric Cantona: “Defending Palestinian human rights does not mean you are pro-Hamas. Saying “Free Palestine” does not mean that we are anti-Semitic or that we want the disappearance of all Jews.
“Free Palestine” means freeing Palestinians from the Israeli occupation that has deprived them of their basic human rights for 75 years.
“Free Palestine” means stopping locking up 2.3 million Palestinians in the world’s largest open-air prison, half of whom are children.
“Free Palestine” means ending apartheid imposed by the Israeli government.
“Free Palestine” means giving Palestinians control of their country’s major infrastructure." 🇵🇸
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer didn't depict the use of Atomic Bombs on Japan.
But the Japanese Anime masterpiece "Barefoot Gen" delivers an incredibly haunting portrayal of the horrors endured during a nuclear detonation.
@NinersHistory Didn't this guy accepted a job as a LB coach with us then went ahead and left for the same job at the Seattle Seahawks? #NotFaithfulToTheBay
@ritaoak_art When it comes to sports we are superstitious so you cannot change “Until he’s traded” since it’s brought us the best of luck so far this season #UntilHesTraded#49ers