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welcome back to with r.t. live from moscow the headlines now protests against corporate greed have gone global that's hundreds of cities across america europe asia and africa all say no to a culture of big business control the movement was born out of the occupy wall street protests which started just a month ago in the heart of new. the seven month long revolt has divided syria as the regime supporting capital say it's ready to wait for reforms cities outside of damascus want the president gone. i knew cranes attempts to spruce up its image
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ahead of its hosting of the euro two thousand and twelve football championships comes under fire from animal rights groups they are accusing the government of burning stray dogs like. right now an enemy of the us and colombian governments killer of thousands but a hero to the poor drugs baron a popular escobar the great hunt is right now why not say. crew picks its heels and i heard tell for three days waiting for some response or acknowledgment of the request to be taught. and distrust runs deep in the ask about class. but on the fourth day there's a phone call album marina finally agrees to get together at her house.
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it's member that album marina had been asked about his coconspirator during the time he had been hunted or as she puts it persecuted they shared many secrets and to this day she still has the greatest separation a brother. nobody knows that i have kept all these souvenirs. these all belong to one time i picked them up from his various hiding places. escobar also had a brother. who was ten years old a. video of him from this time is rare but roberto escobar was a key member of the media even cattaro he would also play an important role in his brother's flight from justice as special as he was accounting and his name was roberto escobar claims to have been among the fifteen people who helped organize the finances of the cocaine empire. before taking a leave album arena had claimed her brother can be reached through
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a contact in the united states. our would like to speak with roberto ask about out the interviewer don't roberto to talk about publicly when you speak with i mean you'd also need to pay some money i don't know how much the. system. eventually a deal was reached for the person we actually want to interview the woman agrees to provide his final bow. low key with the roberto. he's going on a french journalist how do you. find yourself and we meet at your office or somewhere that's convenient. yeah no problem can you tell me where we can actually meet then. go to the last comma service station i'll have someone meet you that evening the thank you very much on.
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the meeting is to take place in a residential district in central med am the only condition is no cameras. we're not the last decide to film the meeting anyway. and i thought it was. done roberto has no wish to be well on the days when he was part of a cartel and dealt in cocaine although he has agreed to an exclusive deal with hollywood producers to sell his life story. the story of publish time on the run is something i'm familiar with. in fact i probably know more about it than most. beginning in one hundred eighty three i spent most of my time with pablo we were the best of friends two brothers that were inseparable we did
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everything together including during the time when he was in hiding. the remaining fifteen minutes of the interview proved to be less fruitful and has agreed to tell us though that while public was on the run he was always able to stay in touch. from his presence all robots are used to phone but he had missed t.v. set to communicate with his brother. i made a phone in my t.v. set i'd rip it up and turned it into a tougher. visitors would only see a t.v. . talk with my brother any time. i change my voice and asking. how you doing what are you up to write them. june one thousand nine hundred three not one year since i had escaped from the camp to draw a special unit has no idea where he is and he moves around the city under the very noses of the police. the government
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decides to tighten the screws. so you see. it triple the reward and ask about dead or alive is now worth five million dollars absolute rubbish about. the authorities refine and perfect there and i tried surveillance escobar is one of the first to own a cellphone but he knows he has to keep on the move and keep his conversation short to prevent the police from pinpointing his position. because. one day an american technician i was up in the airplane tells us he's got a precise position. he's located the hiding place. they own their cars corresponding. x.
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in mountainous difficult terrain. we organized a helicopter operationally utmost secrecy for the troops just a short while later we hear someone warning him on the radio same for an escort they know where you also go if they're on their way to a point it's also about the time we arrived where he'd gone. it's obvious there's a mole in the unit a traitor who keeps the head of a cartel informed begin stops the police are about to sweep the colonel quickly ferrets i'm out here to try to be over what you see i can judge you. inform i was a young police exhilarated us there was no innocent school woodcarver. little figures of policemen here we had a cop does he hang around with us all the time at the police station. because. the informant was in escobar paid using the money to rent an apartment and this building just behind the barracks for the cia and then you.
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soon as this policeman knew an operation was being organized he used to run home. using a radio code called. left the nazis talk and code and say things like tell some doctor as they used to. live there on their way making straight for you sally i'm with the uk you know basically about muslims if you so when we were heading up towards the target but sometimes see people's getting past. the other way. as if you know. that the tracer is eliminated on the manhunt can resume your unimpeded. and so with the knowledge of how target is a guy called el chapo according to our information he's hiding in this area truck
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or was the terrorists' hands on to this guy who claims to. be one of the sentiment is going to come but i'm going to you know this is a photo album with iris operations and suspects. this is the guy we want to catch tonight. as a complete change of tactics the idea is to isolate escobar i rounding up his key man one by one mario cast down all alias and chapal is termites target. the operation against a chopper is a success and many others follow the senior members of the cartel are eliminated one off to the other. escobar is severely weakened so towards the end this war was running without strong.
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fear begins to creep in and the predator becomes the prey. of a new enemy begins to emerge the so-called group of the persecuted also knowing that even as the big. question is what criminals who had once been a limited cartel left for one reason or another and they began to challenge and then fight escobar. their bosses and to form accomplices of escobar would have enough of this paranoia and cruelty. like the police the pap is knew all the secrets and habits of the leader of the cartel. the bloodletting certain starts as a pet is gone down and the one that's closest to the godfather. saw this change the
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dynamics of this esquire now started worrying about his own family. has used the same tactics used by escobar by targeting the family's. case in points as the apartment owned by his mother is global not at the time as good as wife and children had been signed nobody is hurt but the attack is on. one day they set up a poem and it ruined a painting by dolly which was estimated to be worth five million dollars as good as wife was devastated and she calls look she says they destroyed the dolly what are we going to do about it. gradually escobar begins to fear for the lives of his loved longs it may be the reason i was down for. as long as a son and daughter right along here he cannot relax.
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he decides to summon to germany in europe. on the twenty seventh of november maria victoria from pablo and little manuel aboard a flight to frankfurt on the police escort and filmed by the t.v. crews. as a barbarian society relief but although he doesn't know it yet a countdown to his iron hand has already begun should also be slow siegel's wife and kid the kids leave for a safe country that will they want to buy but there's no country that wants them. to claim goes backwards and forwards and eventually returns a colombian no one wanted anything more to do with pablo escobar. on the diplomatic pressure the german government sunday escobar family back home on the twenty nine fiesta bozza back in colombia on the police protection they have no idea they have walked straight into the trap set by u.s.
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and colombian authorities. tell us a little i was certain that once they'd been expelled from germany and were back in colombia they'd begin pressuring escobar in a big way. when they landed asked about family is whisked away to a police safe house in bogota. they have become prisoners. the same time the pakistan up the pressure and attack the hotel with grenades again no one is injured. in his lab escobar hysterical with worry forgets even the most basic security. we're talking every day etc program they're on the same frequency and that's how we started intercepting his communications. a special investigation unit
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that's the turning point on the battle every night is mobilized and every meets deployed. in front for vocal reconnaissance vehicles they cruise the streets a million and an effort to locate the godfather as soon as he opens his mouth. is it the end will be quickly as we were listening in twenty four hours a day by that time in the search service our units one family looks ready to intervene whenever a call was intercepted. on the first of december police technicians identify five phone calls made by ascot from different locations in the city center t.m.p. and one morning in the end it was always on the move calling from a car that was constantly traveling. the police finally figure out what to ask about his tricks to avoid being tracked down the fugitive had for months deemed using a simple but effective ruse that of using one of the city's numerous halves that would drive around nonstop while he made brief cools from his cell phone.
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after four days spent listening in we were very tired we thought we'd never be able to track him down. then suddenly they fired we intercept his latest phone call and the amazing thing happens it's a signal from a fixed line so we know he's fighting from a house. the first police on site confirm the information and brief their superior officer at once. but really is he really the same so he tells me that's it yes i am at the house i'm right in front of it i think i can see him inside. he's near the window with a telephone in his hand. it's
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a confirmed sighting of the united francis led by major. close up to us has entered which we were cautious when we got to the house the first thing we saw was the taxi which he used to take in that the other company. and i had public talking on the phone and so he was up on the second floor. in place how most of us are so we was hardest i had my rifle in the muslim front seat we were moving him slowly to my absolute silence this was your. teacher and then i see him. just awesome he's right in front of me. you're not
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there but i will have a clear shot not of the way i spat thank you so i thank for that and then he turns around and sees me and he says what's happening and he drops the phone pulls out his revolver and opens fire. i run upstairs clutching my pistol and i shoot him in a minute shoulder the rest of the day with a list of the. policeman behind me takes his rifle and there's some surprise a wonderful scene a spot of you know what people should sit here right at the time the bullet goes in here and exits. the insulins and he suddenly throws himself through the window. i jumped out too which was difficult because back then the windows were much higher . so i moved forward to take the gun away from him. and i take the radio and call my bosses and shout. long live columbia. is dead.
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within thirty minutes or one files a member of the special units have arrived on the scene. the whole city appears to congregate the house and at the news of public ask about staff some up ward others are in tears. his face hit the american agent steven murphy makes his way through the crowds of soldiers he wasn't about to let the culmination of sixteen months work go by on recognized everybody is very happy everybody's very exhausted. you just can't imagine the pressure that we felt had been lifted off our shoulders. much less how the colombian national police last for a. month thirty pm on the second of december one thousand nine hundred three the end of the largest manhunt in history.
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was bubble escobar is buried the next morning just outside maybe ten thousand people show up for the funeral home any esteban had been an idol. come. off to one corner of the female members of the family almost crushed as the crowd tries to touch the coffin one last time.
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sixteen years off of the death of the most wanted man in the planet's one mystery remains unresolved what happens in the mating godfathers fost for sure where did he hide the five billion dollars that legend has it he was worth. a go see just on the phone i think his family has most of the money because not apollo esteban's money was ever found a columbia that if he really had all those millions the idea and even if he probably didn't know how much exactly even if it was just worth awfully well he and his wife and children would have to be multi-millionaires today an argentine another would be. we want to check general masses comments. as ari's the capital of argentina. after a stethoscope was widow maria victoria and her two children subtle here and some
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confidence they changed identities and blended into the background maria victoria changed timing to maria is about. how it was better known today as sebastian morrow came. it took us more than a week to track them down the escobar family now that builds in real estate and maria victoria has set up an interior decorating company along with a sob in the heart of political a trendy part of the city. where outside and decides to make some phone calls. to the studio good morning. america in please he's not in you know when he might be back is he in town i think is on a trip i don't know where exactly is going to board. ok well thanks very much.
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forced to wait it seems a good time to find out more about the activities of the escobar family in argentina we spoke to a journalist who has been reporting on the family since they first arrived. if you're going to enter. the first grade here they started hanging out with the locals in particular and accounts of the beginning maria victoria and he were just friends but then they became lovers monies they both an apartment and it became a bad love nest. the apartment becomes the center of maria victoria and her love as money laundering operations. in. the council begins to travel back and forth to columbia canada trunks full of bank notes and the latest. you know increasingly your luggage has a full possibly contain as much as four hundred thousand dollars between ninety five and ninety nine and barely over four years it's been proved they smuggled in
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at least two million dollars so there are some estimates that it could have been more than ten million. but memory of a tory is love a certain betrayed the accountant is really only interested in the money and he comes greedy and effectively blackmails mrs escobar for no less than five years. in one thousand nine hundred ninety as a dramatic development as the entire escobar family is arrested maria victoria a son from paolo as well as the blackmailer. they're released almost immediately the judges were never able to prove their wealth came from the drugs trade. since stanley accountant has mysteriously disappeared and mary a victorian has never been seen in public. before. the next move is to head towards escobar as office building. on. the days tick by without years.
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by day for we're in our car acting on a tip from one pound bloke who's just a right back and what desirous i would like to meet up. but. there's no mistaking who his father was they look so similar in profile the godfather son is wipe the past from his slight. these days he's a successful designer in argentina. we had two hour meeting with the son of the godfather equipped with a hidden camera. the man who's trying to rebuild his life is notoriously shy of the media so our meeting is significant.
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and i call you sebastian. said. to me as ancient history that was my life before. now your father built up a considerable fortune what happened to his money were you able to use an event. the answer is simple. the war cost a huge deal of money. a father was immensely wealthy but he stopped dealing in drugs and invested all of his money into the war. weapons and the manpower cost enormous amounts of money. beyond the cost of the weapons and explosives and a considerable amount of money was used to corrupt people. so he bought the whole country off. the whole country all of it. i remember very well being in my father's office once i saw an endless stream of important people
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for example he was inside meeting with an official and outside the policeman scolding him when he can go out after their boss and finished they went in to be paid that's the way it always was one day policeman another day politicians and i even saw a former president of the republic he would pay off everybody that would say here's a check thanks very much. arjun time justice eventually throughout the case but as the only son of escobar there are many who have doubts of the way his money came from. you know we've been accused of laundering maybe what was the figure of a million dollars over a period of five years. well i can say is if it's true then we must be the west money loaned recent history since if you try and loan the money that comes from a cocaine trade. one million dollars is nothing just pocket money for a cup of coffee. so what
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did happen to ask about his billions of a number of accounts buried underground somewhere or are they just illegible. nobody knows about maybe from this woman maria victoria but maybe others without. she refused to talk with us the images we have of these few seconds of the streets and what has areas. she has the key to some of the secrets. but he died on the twenty in rooftop and nine hundred ninety three ago escobar the greatest drug trafficker of all time took some of his secrets to his grave.
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