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a further slide that has its neighbor portugal announces top of the steering measures put people back using the government of working for the rich and powerful well coming your way next year in our t. is our special report about the colombian drug lord who became an icon after his death all the definitive story of the rise and fall of allusive cocaine trafficker . is up next year in our team. on the tarmac of bogota airport a family looks out of place these are no ordinary people it's a family of pablo escobar the colombian cocaine dogfather and the most wanted criminals on us. they had hoped to seek refuge in frankfurt but the german authorities immediately each on the back. of. the escobar family comprises the song on top rope and his arms his young system unaware.

and bringing up the rear area victorian style to ask a vase like. a tired and bewildered and most of all pale scared about escobar has been on the run for sixteen months and is no longer the old powerful drug lord who for years had terrorized columbia. 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 but just about always had an achilles' heel his family stores around the sun 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 set for me. as for what it's going to slip through our fingers too many times it's unbelievable supposing for it to go. escobar used to bomb schools soup. among kids will anyway what if he. will get out and he knew all about the families of the police can you wear them all those c.d.'s that we have on the father's with them and i mean brothers like. all.

maybe in sixteen years later maybe in his columbia's second city one of its busiest and richest and the country's prime boskone. sixteen years later in the city still has a bad reputation. the second of schools continues but these days it's between small time drug dealers. and it's nowhere near like it was in escobar as time.

as you will acknowledge it as the time of the humans a mad house bullets for breakfast and lunch and bombs for dinner. and a little kissing. as letter by letter head love most suitable here but people die every day every morning bodies near the mountains we call it public cemetery each david because it says people would be murdered often just dumped on the open ground . there are a few people left and maybe but us cobol well you have to know where to look. so the toss is to find them. according to some one of

esteban's formal of time outs is still a lot of. little video from those years still exists. his name is john gyro f.l.s quiz alias popeye. police once had 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 gives what seems so long is that he was able to survive in bogota his notorious low modelo prison on the haunt. like for the old prison was a baby dies of insecurity and frequent violence where the prisoners ruled the roost esteban's former right hand man has since been spirited away to much safer surroundings. takes a few more days to track down no one apparently knows where he is but persistence

finally pays off. there is a last some news. popeye is being held about one hundred kilometers from bogota in this mall the tension center. it's a high security prison with murderers drug traffickers and hired killers among its inmates. no t.v. crews had ever be allowed inside before it was considered thought too dangerous but once again persistence pays off and an exception is made. a chance to talk one on one with top law escobar is most loyal left honest. and he's the best person to give a firsthand account of his former bosses life in the wrong. you know point one

million at the time back admitting there were fifteen hundred people looking for us going to be out of style out there is that alessio israelis british or americans the colombian secret service the cia the da. everyone is off. base it's not the end when they die they don't have to ship you know what i was up i never refused 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 but as ordered by a. once there was a very high profile woman that we will order to kill in custody not in an open and we shot up and the intercontinental hotel but getting out of the hotel was tricky and as a police had some to helicopter i opened fire and i was hit here now sorry i managed to get home and pablo escobar himself came over to see me that's when i realized he was a friend of not just the boss i had a friend of a boss a mentor you can't tell was an army of lions led by

a lie i was and i'm the boss was the line. 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 man an army of hired killers locally as the sea county us devoted body and soul to the corps these men created the now infamous meeting in cartel. cartels nationalized in cocaine. escobar revolutionized the way the drug was transported any means was good by road by air or by sea. hundreds of kilos of the drug was soon reaching the united states and europe

escobar never seen short on ideas to introduce liberals to his best clients in the u.s. even had the submarine built in one thousand eighty escobar reached his senate from becoming the undisputed godfather of the world's cocaine trade as ruthless as he was daring. and 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's 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 of u.s.

federal justice of ours his demand his immediate extradition. he formed a group called its thirty thousand lives for their motto is a better coffin in colombia than a prison cell in the united states you would he be clear the war on colombia across the years. traditionally 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 judgers journalists politicians police anyone. during this period of terror an estimated ten thousand fold victim to ask the boss killing spree or sometimes we would go outside after obama. and see him body parts are seen small children from being killed simply because their parents places.

such incidents but the colombian authorities to act and they decide to eliminate the godfather a price is put on his head and he becomes public enemy number one. problem escobar yes the doctor vanishes from sight. of. a french t.v. crew that had been working on another story comes across ask about in the bush. the subsequent interview was a major scoop and the first time a european media has ever filmed the drug trafficker. on the camera ask of august to some lengths to justify himself. on fox as a lot of. work oh here we have to realize that we're living through the cocaine period in cocaine is invading the world and why because it's

a drug let's less strong or less damaging than the others who are drug addicts because of a lack of educational and discipline and. it's the same with alcohol there's no difference between someone sleeping on the sidewalk because of drink or because of drugs. or not because. no i think. the godfather goes on to pick up part of the american arguments against the cocaine trade 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 mehdi cartel ships out three hundred kilograms a day of cocaine into the united states u.s. officials have had enough and again demanding 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 at some unlikely pata. in

june one nine hundred ninety one and a source that convoy of vehicles is heading into the mountains near medina to a place known as the captured route inside the vehicles his gunman flank the godfather escobar has agreed to surrender and serve time but in a prison that he himself is going to his own specifications escobar is dictating the terms and his purpose built jail conspicuously has not a prison because no peas on the radio escobar explains that he has surrendered for the sake of a colombian people the moment i go to college doing at this historic moment when our fighters are giving themselves up to bring calm to the country i cannot ignore the polls for peace by the vast majority of a colombian people. god of june one thousand nine hundred seventy you.

got the drywall is a five star luxury prison with all the comforts of farm. and even better than most homes of the time as a state of the art kitchen music center. telephone. outside has 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 valley below. during the day and his associates have no time to get bored of cocaine and i continue to grow. to look at the. prison i captured 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 he was not

a joke what happened is such that boss ethiopia intimidation that we end up discovered that most of these soldiers were war. bride. the government insists he served time in a real present something a trap and he refuses. one night escobar his friend and a dozen henchmen escaped. up on ice skating for the friends when there were no police no no we were we just left at about eleven at night and it was very foggy outside when there was a gate is discovered a state of alert as declared after a year in his private prison the public escobar has once again gone underground. but police realize they need to act quickly because the godfather is unfamiliar territory and every hour lost gives him the opportunity to disappear for good

nothing is left to chunks each house and million and its suburbs a search starting with those belonging to his left. but by the morning of the twenty second of july nine hundred ninety two the authorities admit they've lost him escobar has account you vanished into thin air. bogota the government as exhaust parades are barely twenty four hours off to his escape it sets up the block ale that was data an elite unit is to track down i'm

asked about its headquarters are in the city center a one thousand strong unit is made up of highly trained and handpicked policemen and soldiers. the commandos make sure that none of them end up from medi combat all of them i just want to settle with esko by choosing those who have lost at least one member of their families to the gangsters hit man. the head of the unit is colonel hugo martinez as methodical as he is in corruptible . is number two is major hugo i do ya his role is to gather intelligence basis tough as nails and farley to tom and. 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 the money a quick. thing tell the difference da at this time i created a. tape t.k.o. problem which is that we were we were targeting this war all over the world. maybe even becomes a city i'm just seeing a special unit is everywhere with cock notch so there was it pleases sweeping everywhere and such and everyone. looking at. it. it's a big. in with a dragnet tons of little more than weapons telephones explosives common enough in many a year and the usual suspects most of them petty criminals. looking investigators are hoping for is the one clue the one informant who might lead them to ask about.

all. those means or does your me going to get patients. are going to get. the rewards of the televised appeals for information made little headway however as for whether i 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 dangers such unit has to follow every lead. a family get some touchups take some to envy god the somebody where escobar grew up. people were hiding you know remember the populist was a rock record for the people it made me think helped a lot of help a lot of the poor he built churches. get

a lot of money to people. who watched you know they were guarded and they were hiding. here in this house that the police were helping to round up a few members of the cox now. listen. i . think. it's. unfortunately for the police they arrive 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 try to vocal frequencies it's the first time such methods

are used to hunt down one man. it means that colonel martinez and his men can eavesdrop on hundreds of telephone radio conversations day and night twenty four seven. men and much nine hundred ninety three. we suddenly realize we have asked about talking to his son on his cell funny but the problem was that he was constantly on the move for. the twin engine plane that is constantly in the air over many managers to locate the frequency used in the phone call. the plane was able to identify where the call be made from on the ground you know so i immediately traced the location on a map of the city to find the exact spot where. the calculations show that it came from a house in one of many units smarter suburbs escobar has to be there and it's just a matter of rounding him up. the orders are to move in the door and the house the

storage he searched. inside there's a volga display of wealth and a few stuff that a half asleep. yet i think you could get this is a guy who does this house belong to adrian moreno moreno is the name escobar often uses. the bed is a made the bed clothes still warm as good or it seems was tipped off just in time. the only people of the stuff like that in all of his houses. escobar has now been on the run from his comfortable imprisonment for eight months. he's thumbing his nose at the special. we missed them at the beginning. and i venture to say when mr moore good. twenty times you know we would pick him up on

the radio we'd have a search walks around the area and we're always you know we'd always miss them. as time goes by pablo escobar 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. if i know you know if i'm alone here he wouldn't even need to us i doubt he's welcome here any time now her he's welcome with open arms he will always be welcome . to ask about also finds easy refuge with his cronies from the cartel and other traffickers on whose loyalty he can rely. on more than a decade and

a half later most are 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 their son and his widow maria victoria have sold refuge in argentina. his brother roberto. stymies younger sister album arena hostility. the escobar family had been on touchable for so long the brother 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. is this mrs just about lose. yes she did notice or is she just going out. ok we'll leave a message for. from the days of the manhattan project and nine hundred forty two the university of california has been involved in the science of its provision and scientists and their relationship versity you see since day one has been in charge of researching designing and testing nuclear weapons and to some extent producing weapons every single long nuclear weapon in surveys arsenal was designed by university of

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