![]() ![]() ![]() In 1989, he was the Forbes seventh richest man in the world. By the mid-1980s, Pablo Escobar's cartel was bringing in $420m a week or nearly $22 billion a year 'There's no chance I could hate my father. because I did not know exactly what he did.' Giraffe's, elephants, motorcycles, a lot of things to do and a lot of money to spend,' Juan Pablo told 60 Minutes. ĭespite having to change his name and flee Colombia when his famous father died and his cocaine empire collapsed in 1993, Mr Marroquin says he loves and admires his dad. He grew up living in lavish homes with animals such as elephants and zebras roaming his backyard. The eldest Escobar son has previously said living with the drug kingpin meant his childhood was like 'Disneyland'. 'It is clear that at some point the US decided to buy cocaine from Pablo Escobar and use their services to fund the anti-communist struggle in Central America,' he told SunOnline'. The book, 'Pablo Escobar, In Fraganti', which means 'Red Handed', is his second and will unveil the new revelations. Mr Marroquin said US officials were buying cocaine from Escobar to fund the country's fight against communism. In the interview ahead of the launch of his book, he also told SunOnline the US government was in on the drug smuggling. Having escaped many attempts on his life, Pablo Escobar finally died at what was though to be the hands of the Colombian National Police on December 2, 1993. It wasn't until the ambitious crime lord made a run for the country's parliament that he came to the national attention, a decision his son thinks led to his downfall. While later he would become famous for starting wars, ordering thousands of murders and even bombing an airplane, he was called Colombia's 'Robin Hood' early on for giving away money to the poor. Initially, while operating out of the depths of his home country's jungles, his large operations flew under the radar. 'My father always told me the shot that would take his life would stick,' he said.įrom a poor family in the town of Medellin, in Colombia's north-east, Escobar grew up to become the world's most wanted man.Īt the height of his drug cartel's trafficking of cocaine to Miami, Escobar was raking in close to $420 million a week. Mr Marroquin, who changed his name from Juan Pablo Escobar, told SunOnline his father shot himself in the head on the rooftop 23 years ago, something he had apparently always planned to do. This is far from the story of a child seeking redemption, but a shocking look at the consequences of violence and his attempt to come to terms with it.Juan Pablo Escobar (left), the son of Colombian drug boss Pablo Escobar (right) says he loves his father despite his reign of crime and terror through the South American nation With his change of heart, he denounced the Pablo Escobar legacy. quickly recognised that meant following in his father's footsteps-something neither of them had ever wanted. When Escobar died, his then teenage son vowed revenge. In a deeply personal exploration of his father, we see the inner world of a man who was celebrated by some as a benevolent Robin Hood figure and by others, as a dangerous leader of the most ruthless mafia organisation in human history, reaping vengeance and death on anyone that might stand in his way. ![]() Here we find a man of contradictions - generosity and infinite love for his family yet capable of the most extreme acts of cruelty and violence. Now, more than two decades after the full-fledged manhunt finally caught up with Escobar, his son brings us the dramatic truth as never before. But these versions have always been told from the outside, only capturing half the truth, and never from the intimacy of his own home. Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar - from books to film to the cult series 'Narcos'. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM PABLO ESCOBAR'S SON ![]()
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