Headscratchers / Narcos

• So despite having found a listening device in his car and knowing that he's suspected of hiding Elisa Alvarez, Murphy still thinks it's okay to mention her by name over his office phone?
• How does Murphy despite spending over a decade in the country, not speak or read a word of Spanish and rely on Peña or locals to translate? It seems like an extremely unjustifiably handicap to not learn.
  • He's shown trying to speak Spanish a few times even as early on as midway through season 1, but it's quite bad and nobody takes him seriously. Why he never bothers improving though is still in question.
• Why would La Quica be given a bail at any price? As a foreign national charged with multiple homicide (one of them a federal agent) the attempted murder of a second federal agent, and with the second agent being a witness to his crimes, shouldn’t he be considered too high a flight risk?
• If Colombia's Minister of Defense was leaking the DEA's intelligence to the Cali Cartel, why didn't he warn Miguel about the first raid?
  • Out of the show the Samper administration was strong-armed into turning the entire apparatus of the Colombian state on the Cali Cartel when the US government learned about the surrender deal - which Samper had agreed to both because he did not want his presidential term to be defined by still more drug violence, and because Cali had paid him to help make it so. In the show, none of the Colombians on the take want to be too obvious about it, so there are some instances where they would be and are cooperative.