Colombia is accumulating contradictions. President Gustavo Petro is trying to achieve “full peace” with ELN guerrillas, FARC dissidents, and drug gangs who are offered, among other benefits, reduced sentences if they quit their activities. The first left-wing government is running its project in a country where criminal figures can still be prosecuted. beautification object This happens with Pablo Escobar Gaviria. his home in Medellín, museum Recommended by tourist apps. Authorities ordered the building to be demolished, but as if the drug trafficking foreshadowed their actions against the State, as if it were a imitation of what had happened in the eighties, the brother of the drug trafficker who was killed in 1993 beat them to the fist and finally destroyed the property. Monday
The house was located in the town of Las Palmas, about 500 kilometers from Bogotá, and reason for pilgrimage a large number of outsiders interested in the “model of evil”. In fact, it was known as the museum of the former head of the Medellín cartel. The destruction was due not to the inappropriateness of an attempt to glorify his personality, but to the lack of official permission. In keeping with Capo’s own story, It is an illegal act, but in this case in public. “We reject the use of the area for activities promoting drug tourism,” said Colonel Omar Rodríguez Aranda, announcing that the property will be demolished. When 50 officers from the Mayor’s Office and Police came to turn this place into rubble, they found that the task had already been accomplished.
the house belongs to Robert Escobarknown as the capo’s older brother bear, 76 years old. “Pablo found some perjury witnesses who implicated me in a fictitious drug business, and that was enough to turn me in. The government’s requirement was that I confess to a crime. Proof that I was not involved in drug trafficking, I was never asked to be extradited by the United States,” he usually says. Those who know the history of the poster will not doubt the role it played in the structure. He was considered the accountant of the cartel. The declaration of innocence did not prevent his son from raising the “museum” he was running, Nicholas. In this case, the role of the generation was very important: They told their family adventures through the eyes of the father. Little Bear lost his sight when a letter bomb exploded on him in prison. This shortcoming did not prevent him from speaking and contributing to the romanticization of his brother’s activities.
theme park
Transformation pablo escobar In the theme park, it belongs to 2018. A tour of not only the house but also the cemetery where he was buried was offered for around 30 euros. But it is the ruined building standing in the privileged part of the Antioquian capital that staged the cult of disastrous character. Advertising invited us to enter his world. “innermost”. Tourists were preparing to dive into capo life on the basis of “accurate and first-source information”. Through the footage, they were able to trace the process that led to a young man from Antioquia becoming Colombia’s most wanted criminal forty years ago.
Parts of it could be seen inside the house. a car with bullet holesa table equipped with an internal mechanism that allows him to store weapons, iconic photographs of Pablo Escobar during his stay here Cathedralor in a Soviet fur hat, with the jet ski used in one of the shoots of his epic. James Bond and a massive $500 bill that served as a symbol of the exponential desire to save money.
The desire for reliability is a “couple” The extinct narco-Like would accompany tourists dressed in the gear that characterizes it to give the trip a greater sense of “reality”.
Past, present and future
Authorities believe that turning the museum to ashes marks an important step in the dusting of the Escobar myth. In this context, the Petro government has to manage not only the past but also the present of drug trafficking in Colombia. Escobar is already part of the history of tears. about the present Gulf Clan, The most powerful organization in the drug business, with the operational capacity to destabilize the State in many municipalities.
calls Gaitanista Colombian Self-Defense Force (AGC)9,000 gunmen, initially far-right paramilitary forces, had a charter and an anthem. They are the main exporters of cocaine to the United States. In the same Antioquia that “belongs” to Escobar, the Clan del Golfo displays some of its power.
Petro suspended negotiations with this group, who were offered reduced penalties if they voluntarily surrendered. AGG demanded a guarantee of non-extradition to the United States, as with the pseudonym of their leader, Dairo Antonio Úsuga. “Othniel”. Its ability to recruit young people is so strong that the Government has decided to devote some of its budget to social schemes aimed at deterring young people from entering the world of violence that continues to glorify Escobar in exchange for an education. “We will pay them not to kill them. “We will give them help, which is a commitment that must be fulfilled,” he said.