What Scarface Gets Wrong About the Real Sosa

Scarface made Sosa a powerful villain. The real man associated with him helped finance a coup. Here is the movie against the record.

Paul Shenar’s Alejandro Sosa has money, military connections and the final word over Tony Montana. This episode puts that screen version beside Roberto Suárez Gómez, the Bolivian cattle rancher widely identified as an inspiration for the character. The film gives Sosa powerful friends. The historical record connects Suárez to the financing of Bolivia’s 1980 Cocaine Coup and the regime of Luis García Meza, with Luis Arce Gómez serving as interior minister. What looks like a kingpin’s influence in

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