The series ‘Who Killed Him?’ from Prime Video shows a little about Paco Stanley’s life, both off and on TV, before his unfortunate murder, which happened in a famous restaurant south of Mexico City and in broad daylight in the year 1999, that is almost 25 years ago.
In the four episodes released, the audience saw repeated controversial moments that happened in reality, such as Mario Bezares confronting the driver with the famous phrase “No with the cards”. However, one that has not come up at this time and has a lot of relevance is the one related to a drug trafficker.
Paco Stanley and Mayo Zambada: The Story of “Who Killed Him?” could count
The premise of the series suggests that the politician also knew Amado Carrillo, that is, the lord of the skies, who was dedicated to transporting illegal substances from Mexico to the United States. Although this relationship was never confirmed to be true, it is shown that Paco had an indirect interaction with the drug dealer Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada.
It all happened while Stanley was hosting a live segment of his “Pácatelas” program and was preparing to read a small paper in front of the audience and cameras that said the following.
It turns out the comedian paused because at the end of the note he was asked not to say the message out loud and he let out a nervous laugh. Curiously, Stanley addressed the audience and asked where Zambada was, implying that he was possibly a spectator of the show at the time.
A voice said he was “already gone” and the host ended by thanking Mayo Zambada for continuing the program as normal.
Did Paco Stanley have ties to drug dealing in real life?
As a result of this awkward moment, a rumor spread that Zambada was really in the audience, he just didn’t want to be noticed, but there is no hard evidence to support this idea. In addition, it made more people believe that Stanley’s murder was related to drug dealing, but this was also not proven.
It is currently unknown whether the salute to Mayo Zambada will be copied in “Who Killed Him?” We’ll just have to wait for the final two chapters to hit Amazon Prime Video on June 7 to find out.
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If you want to know more about the life and death of Paco Stanley, don’t miss the documentary series “The show, Chronicle of a Murder” available on ViX. Click here to view it.
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