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Colombia is considered worldwide as the largest producer of cocaine -About 1,100 metric tons a year- and, although there are no large cartels as in the 1980s, there are several networks that finance drug trafficking.
Drug trafficking is the cursed heritage left by Pablo Escobar Gaviria 27 years after his death. Around one in the afternoon, on December 2, 1993, Escobar was killed by an elite command of the Police. The day before he had turned 44.
(Multimedia special: Never again Escobar)
Escobar or ‘El Patron’ was said to he had a fortune of between 25,000 and 30,000 million dollars. He died, bearded, with long and disheveled hair, on the roof of a house where he had evaded the authorities for several months.
The then major of the Police Hugo Escobar claimed his death. “Viva Colombia,” the officer shouted as he reported the loss to his superiors. But even the way the capo died became a legend and various versions and theories were born: that he committed suicide, that the “gringos” killed him or that he was killed by the paramilitaries.
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To Escobar, head of the ‘Medellín Cartel’ At least 623 attacks are accused of him, many of them with explosives. With them he tried to subdue an entire country. In the midst of car bombs and attacks, more than 400 civilians lost their lives.
‘El Patron’ marked the history of the country by murdering more than 500 policemen, whom he put a price on their heads: two million pesos for each uniformed man.
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By Pablo Escobar five books have been written, two novels have been made, a series on Netflix and he has been a “co-star” in several series on drug trafficking in Colombia.
He is also accused of the murder of the then Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, in April 1984. Of the director of The viewer, Guillermo Cano, in December 1986. and Luis Carlos Galán, in August 1989.
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He also perpetrated several kidnappings such as that of Andrés Pastrana, Francisco Santos, and that of Diana Turbay, daughter of former president Julio César Turbay. She was killed in the middle of a rescue operation.
Added to this is the fact that on November 27, 1989, on Escobar’s orders, a bomb was activated in mid-flight, an Avianca company plane, which killed 107 people.
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And the so-called DAS bomb, on December 6, 1989. That day a truck bomb loaded with 500 kilos of dynamite was activated. 63 people were killed, and more than 500 were injured.
And although violence of this type, car bombs and other types of terrorist acts have decreased in these 27 years with Escobar’s death, Massacres, homicides and all acts of barbarism continue to be recorded in the name of cocaine trafficking.
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