 Enter the Medellin. In American Made, Seal is just mining his own business, refueling his plane in Colombia in 1980 when he is bundled into a car and taken to a hidden airstrip in the Colombian jungle. There he has made an offer he can't refuse by three businessmen in need of a pilot with the skills to navigate the dangerously short runway. One of these men happens to be Pablo Escobar. Already feeling under compensated by the CIA for the loss of his TWA pension in health care, Seal is swayed by the promise of $2,000 per kilo of cocaine brought to the U.S. In real life, according to statements in his drug enforcement administration file, Seal was smuggling marijuana as early as 1976 and began smuggling cocaine in 1978, well before any contact with the cartel.