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a family looks out of place these are no ordinary people it's a family a cowboy isco bought a colombian cocaine godfather and the most wanted criminals on earth. they had hoped to seek refuge in frankfurt but the german authorities immediately turn them back. to the escobar family comprises the son one top bloke and his office's young system unaware. and bringing up the rear maria victoria stopper as cabal's right. it's hired to bewilder and most of all they're scared to go escobar has been on the run for sixteen months and is no longer the old powerful drug lord who for years had terrorized colombia. the public enemy number one lives like a hunted animal from his hiding place somewhere in colombia the drug dealer is powerless to help his family i ask about always had an achilles' heel his family

his daughter and a son meant everything to him. his achilles' heel is something the colombian authorities are planning to take full advantage of from the moment they check into a hotel the family is under constant surveillance they've become the bait. it's just a matter of time before the godfather makes a mistake before going into the trap the police have said. mr white it's going to slip through our fingers too many times it's unbelievable she was afraid to go. home escobar used to bomb schools soup. markets will anyway what you see. will get out and you knew all about the families of the police union with them all

those c.s.i. we had on that follow those lives can only brothers like. maybe in sixteen years later maybe in his columbia's second city one of its busiest and richest and the country's pride bosman.

sixteen years later in the city still has a bad reputation. the settling of scores continues but these days it's between small time drug dealers. and it's nowhere near like it was in escobar as time. will tell a joke at the time of the humans a mad house bullets for breakfast and lunch and bombs for below. ground level because that. is where the budget had to love was you know what people die every day every morning bebee bodies near the mountains would call it public cemetery each day the corpses it would be mowed it often just dumped on the open ground.

there are few people left and maybe the us go by well you have to know where to look. so the tosca is to find a. according to some want to test the balls formal of time outs there's still a lot. of old video from those years still exists. his name is john gyro ls ques alias alpine. police wanted posters back then popeye was not far behind his boss escobar when it came to the pecking order he was implicated in a number of motives sources claim that he's been serving time in prison for several years it seems so his that he was able to survive in bogota his notorious low

modelo prison on the calm. like for the old prison was the day he dies of insecurity and frequent violence where the prisoners weed the roost as cabal's former right hand man has since been spirited away to much safer surroundings. it takes a few more days to track down no one apparently knows where he is but persistence finally pays off. there is a cost some news. popeye's being held about one hundred kilometers from bogota in this not the times and sometimes. it's a high security prison with murderous drug traffickers not killers among its inmates . no t.v. crews had ever been allowed inside before it was considered dangerous once again persistence pays off and an exception is made.

a chance to talk one on one with pablo escobar as the most loyal left times. and he's the best person to give a first hand account of his former boss or his life in the wrong. you know point one million of the time back in maybe there were fifteen hundred people looking for us. there is that alessio israelis british americans the colombian secret service the cia the g.s.a. . everyone was off to look at was that it's not a space it's not all i wanted i didn't have to have to know what i was up i never refuse one of his bosses orders however ruthless they may have been he claims he was responsible for two hundred fifty of the estimated ten thousand as ordered by a scud. once there was a very high profile woman that we were ordered to kill in custody not you know that

it can be shorter than the intercontinental hotel but getting out of the hotel was tricky and that's what police sometimes a helicopter they opened fire and i was hit here in the artery i managed to get home and public escobar himself came over to see me that's when i realized he was a friend not just the boss i had a friend but a boss. was an army of limes led by a lawyer i was alarmed the boss was going on. by the mid one nine hundred seventy s. escobar was at the height of his powers. he was the leader of a group made up of his cousins and friends that ruled the drug trade along side with three hundred men an army of hired killers locally as the sea carriers devoted

body and soul to the corps these men created the now infamous meeting in cartel. a cartel specialized in cocaine. escobar revolutionized the way the drug was transported any means was good by road by air or sea. hundreds of kilos of the drug was soon reaching the united states and europe escobar never seen children ideas to introduce liver is to his best clients in the u.s. even had the submarine built in one nine hundred eighty escobar reached his senate becoming the undisputed godfather of the world's cocaine trade as ruthless as he was derek. barely ten years escobar had come a long way from a small time grave he had become the all powerful king of cocaine a godfather whose net worth of the time was estimated at five billion dollars. and almost as if to prove he could do what he liked he pushed the envelope to the

limit by having his photo taken with his son outside the white house. he uses his profits from drugs to buy a real estate in miami florida under the noses of the american authorities. escobar becomes america's worst nightmare the us federal justice authorities demand his immediate extradition. formed a group called the study. of them also is a better coffin in colombia than a prison cell in the united states when he declared war on colombia because earlier . tradition we'd never expect that the sides of that war. was. escobar reveals his true personality a psychopath who orders the murders of everyone who might be involved in processing

his extradition charges journalists politicians police anyone. during this period of terror an estimated ten thousand fall victim to ask about his killing spree for some time we will go outside after obama. and see a body parts you're seeing small children infants that they kill simply because their parents were placing. such incidents but the colombian authorities to act and they decide to eliminate the godfather a price just put on his head and he becomes public enemy number one. no escobar alias the doctor vanishes from sight. with. a french t.v. crew that had been working on another story comes across as khobar in the bush. the subsequent interview is a major scoop of the first time

a european media has ever filmed the drug trafficker. on the camera escobar goes to some lengths to justify himself and. some possible life. we have to realize that we're living through the cocaine period cocaine is invading the world why because it's a drug that's less strong or less damaging than the on those who are drug addicts because of a lack of educational and discipline as we did he mean it's the same without culture there's no difference between someone sleeping on the sidewalk because of drink or because of drugs illegal or not because. the godfather goes on to pick up part of the american arguments against the cocaine trade for no see like ok right now it's cocaine that's considered dangerous evil because the americans can't control it because it's the colombians of produce that that's the real problem.

and that same year the medina cocktail ships out three hundred kilograms a day of cocaine into the united states u.s. officials have had enough and again demand the extradition of the drug store. hunted in his own country and wanted by u.s. justice there appears no way out for ask about undeterred he tries to bargain for his freedom with a colombian government and some on likely bossa. in june one thousand nine hundred ninety one and assorted convoy of vehicles is heading into the mountains me i'm a team to a place known as the cafe drought inside the vehicles whose government flank the godfather escobar has agreed to surrender and serve time but in a prison that he himself has built to his own specifications escobar is dictating

the terms and his purpose built jail conspicuously has not a prison boss no keys on the radio escobar explains that he has surrendered for the sake of a colombian people the moment i thought he could enjoy at this historic moment when our fighters are giving themselves up to bring calm to the country i cannot ignore the polls for peace i lost majority of a colombian people. and we got zero to nine hundred ninety one when you. got the drought is a five star luxury prison with all the comforts of home. and even better than most homes of the time as a state of the arts kitchen music center. telephone. outside there's a huge telescope which allows the godfather to keep track of police as they come and go as well as keep watch over his family who have remained in the body below them. during the day pablo and his associates have no time to get bored the cocaine

continues to grow. to look at. the prison a country crime central it was where they controlled the drug traffic and the government was fully aware of the fact. and what was going on leaks out it causes a huge scandal with the president of colombia himself forced to explain it was not a joke what happened he's such got basuki of intimidation that we end up that most of these soldiers were warriors. ride. the government insists he served time in a real prison and sensing a trap he refuses. one night escobar his friend and a dozen henchmen escape. pablo a nice scapegoat for the friends where there were no police no i want all we want

we must have left at about eleven at night it was very foggy outside when their escape was discovered a state of alert is declared after a year in his private prison pablo escobar house once again going on the ground. the police realize they need to act quickly as the godfather is on familiar territory and every hour lost gives him the opportunity to disappear for good nothing is left to chops each house and maybe and its suburbs a search starting with those belonging to his left family. but by the morning of the twenty second of july nine hundred ninety two the authorities admit they've lost him escobar has a copy vanished into thin air. in

bogota the government says that sauce parades are barely twenty four hours off of his escape it sets up the blood pail that was scaled up an elite unit whose sole tosk is to track down the escobar its headquarters are in the city center but one thousand strong units is made up of highly trained and handpicked policeman console chose. to come on does make sure that none of the manna from eddie and all of them have a squall to settle with us go by choosing those who have lost at least one member of their families to the gangsters here at. the head of the unit as colonel hugo multi knows as methodical as he is in corruptible. just. as number

two is major hugo iacke his role is to gather intelligence he's a stop as nails and farley determined. the americans sent two of their best drug officers to work alongside the columbia on the ground. it was the best of the best in going after and we had all the resources we wanted our resources i'm talking about. the money the quick money and. the intelligence da at this time had created a. t.k.o. program which says that we were we were targeting this war all over the world. body and becomes a city under siege a special unit is everywhere with cop launched to do as it pleases sweeping everywhere i'm searching everyone.

to. in with the dragnet turns off little more than weapons telephones explosives common enough in midday you know and the usual suspects most of them petty criminals. but the investigators are hoping for is the one clue the one informant who might lead them to ask about. him a lot of. those means we're going to get patients. some of. the rewards of the televised appeals for information make little headway however as whoever might be tempted to inform the godfather or his cronies knows fully well it would mean the death sentence. as a result months go by and escobar remains as elusive as ever. despite the grind of

the danger the such unit has to follow up every lead. a family unit some tonnages take some to envy god or the sump of wesco by a group. of people who are hardly going to remember called list was a rock with the people we've met with the help a lot of help a lot of poor he built churches. gave a lot of money to people who watched you know they were guarded they were hiding. here in this house the police were helping to round up a few members of the cots out. listen to. some. unfortunately for the police they arrived too late and it wouldn't be the last time.

elite forces well paid informants yet there was still no breakthrough to catch escobar there's a change of tactics the priority now being given to telecommunications. the americans provide an awacs surveillance aircraft and a twin engine plane to track focal frequencies it's the first time such methods are used to hunt down one man. it means the colonel not even is and his men can eavesdrop on hundreds of telephone radio conversations day and night twenty four seventh's. then in march one thousand nine hundred three. we suddenly realize we have to ask about talking to his son on his cell phone any of the problem was that he was constantly on the move. for the twin engine plane that is constantly in the air over maybe he manages to locate the frequency used in the phone call. a plane was able to identify where the call he made from on the ground

so i immediately traced the location on a map of the city to find the exact spot. where i feel. the calculations show that it came from a house in one of many units not a suburbs escobar has to be there and it's just a matter of rounding him not. to move in a dorm and a house is thoroughly searched. inside there's a vulgar display of wealth and if you start off with a half asleep. that the people get is a guy who does this house belong to a green marina marina has a name ask about often uses. the bed is unmade the bed clothes still warm escobar it seems was ticked off just in time. to put a. story the only people. like that in his house as. escobar

has now been on the run from his comfortable imprisonment for eight months. he's storming his nose at the special units. we missed him at the beginning. may i venture to say when mr more good. twenty times you know we would pick him up on the radio we'd have a surge walks around the area and we're always you know we'd always miss and. as time goes by escobar as popularity seems to increase. the baiting the authorities by luck or design makes him into a hero. and a run down neighborhoods the poor are all on his side.

he thought oh yeah if i were here he wouldn't even need to ask but i doubt he's welcome here any time now heard he's welcome with open arms he will always be welcome. escobar also finds easy refuge with his cronies from the cartel and other traffickers on whose loyalty he can rely on our more than a decade and a half later most i'm no longer alive. all that's left are some members of the escobar family who alone know how the godfather managed to remain at liberty for so long. maybe they might finally talk. according to some reports there's something powerful and his widow maria victoria

a sort of refuge in argentina. says his brother roberto. and his younger sister album arena are still ahead david. the escobar family had been armed touchable for so long the proper and sister used to go out quite openly these days they choose to keep a much lower profile a local journalist helps out by providing the address of escobar sister. this is where mrs escobar lives. yes she did no sorry she's just going out. ok we'll leave a message for. a

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