What Pablo Escobar said about Belisario Betancur and the taking of the Palace

Popeye, Pablo Escobar’s head of hitmen, told many details before he died of what he supposedly knew about the taking of the Palace of Justice, which turns 35 this Friday. “The boss told them not to get into the Palace, but into the Senate, because President Belisario Betancur was going to fight for the Senate”, the boss’s lieutenant told SEMANA in an interview for a special of the 30 years of this shot. “Plan ‘B’ was to kill as many magistrates and burn the files, which was the one that was carried out because they had advanced work in the Court, they had it infiltrated,” he added. According to Popeye, “Pablo Escobar Gaviria saw a golden opportunity. The M-19 tells him that he is in that operation and he supports her, because he hated Belisario Betancur, because he had given him 5 million dollars for the campaign, and when he was there he appointed Rodrigo Lara Bonilla as Minister of Justice, who it was one of the pacts they had. When Pablo kills Lara Bonilla, Belisario becomes the great enemy “. The versions of this convicted criminal, who died of cancer last year, never had full credibility as it was shown that he lied on other occasions. However, they did point to a version of the role of the country’s biggest drug lord in this tragedy.

See on video what Popeye said about the taking of the Palace of Justice