Alfonso puerta y pablo escobar biography

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (1 d'avientu de 1949, Rionegro – 2 d'avientu de 1993, Medellín) foi un narcotraficante y políticucolombianu, fundador y máximu líder del Cartelu de Medellín.

Nacíu d'una familia llabradora, Escobar demostró habilidá pa los negocios dende bien pequeñu. Empecipió la so vida delictiva a finales de los sesenta nel contrabandu, y a empiezos de la década de los ochenta, arreyar na producción y comercialización de mariguana y cocaína al esterior. En formando aliances con Gonzalo Rodríguez Farrapa, Carlos Lehder y Jorge Luis Ochoa, Escobar fundó'l Cártel de Medellín, organización que na so puxanza, monopolizó el negociu de la cocaína dende la so producción hasta'l so consumu, controlando más del 80% de la producción mundial de felicidá droga y del 75% del mercáu ilícitu de la mesma n'Estaos Xuníos. Mientres esta década llogró consolidar el so imperiu criminal, co

By Daniela Cristancho, EL ESPECTADOR, April 11, 2023

(Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN Volunteer Translator)

Below is an article from EL ESPECTADOR, August 25, 1988

“MEDELLÍN CARTEL WILL NOT BE EXTRADITED”

Bogotá. The bosses of the so-called “Cartel” of Medellín, who were in custody awaiting extradition by the authorities, will be released from custody and will be completely free as of yesterday, based on a new decision in their favor by the Council of State.

The high court, in a decision written by Justice Simón Rodríguez Rodríguez nullified the arrest orders issued by the Justice Ministry against the brothers Jorge Luis, Juan David and Fabio Ochoa Vásquez. The same Council adopted identical determinations last week in favor of Gonzalo Rodríguez Gachal, alias El Mexicano, based on a decision issued in May to release the drug trafficker Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria.

On this occasion the Council of State reiterated that it is impossible to apply the Extradition Treaty between Colombia and the United States in 1979.”

Academics and experts in drug trafficking talk here about Petro’s “total peace “initiative, and earlier negotiations with drug traffickers during recent meeting with the Attorney General.

President Gustavo Petro has met twice with Attorney General Francisco Barbosa to deal with his doubts about the administration’s “total peace” initiative. The head of the prosecuting agency has expressed special concern with the Bill providing for submission to the ordinary justice system, which was introduced in Congress three weeks ago. According to what the Justice Minister, Néstor Iván Osuna Patiño, said at that time, its articles “contain a generous offer by the Colombian government to these high impact criminal organizations, so that if they surrender, confess their crimes, turn over their property, furnish information about

2013 Colombian TV series or program

Los Tres Caínes (The 3 Cains) is a 2013 Spanish-language TV Series produced by RTI Producciones for Colombia-based television network RCN TV and United States–based television network MundoFox. Based on the story of the Colombian paramilitary leaders Carlos Castaño, Vicente Castaño and Fidel Castaño. It stars Julián Román, Elkin Díaz and Gregorio Pernía. It was released on March 4, 2013, and ended on June 18 of the same year. It is an adapted story by the Castaño brothers, based on the research of their librettist, Gustavo Bolívar. A week after its release, and following a movement of citizens (mostly victims of paramilitarism) on social networks, who under the slogan #noen3caines protested for considering it a purely commercial exploitation of violence, after this, some brands withdrew their advertising from the series.

The series has been criticized by academics, journalists, human rights defenders, victims of paramilitarism and state crimes, and citizens outraged by its lack of rigor and its dialogues that re-victimize various social sectors that were victims of this illegal armed force created by the brothers Vicente, Fidel and Carlos Castaño Gil, around whom the production revolves, similar to a controversy over alleged support for drug trafficking in the series Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord. At the same time, the Diocese of Quibdó also criticized the series for not highlighting the role of the Church during the Bojayá Massacre.

At the same time, the series has been strongly criticized by Jesús Ignacio Roldán Pérez 'Monoleche', one of the most notorious ex-paramilitaries of the AUC, and at one time a high-ranking member. The series shows events that according to 'Monoleche' he seriously claims did not happen in real life, and that these scenes caused him problems with his relatives and especially

Edgar Jiménez Mendoza, alias El Chino, has achieved something unique in the history of photography: to meticulously record the personal life of Pablo Escobar – the world’s most famous drug trafficker – and survive to tell the tale. 

To Alfonso Buitrago, the author of El Chino. La Vida del Fotógrafo Personal de Pablo Escobar (Universo Centro,  2022), this 70-year-old photographer from Medellín ‘s archive, resembles an immense album of “antisocial pages.” 

His images are disconcerting, perhaps because they are far from capturing the savagery we usually associate with drug trafficking. “They are the images of a photographer of social events. In other words, they are non-violent photographs,” Buitrago explains. “Many people ask me if El Chino portrayed the victims or the bombs, let’s say, the worst period of the drug war against the Colombian State, and that’s not the case. We are talking about the photographer of birthdays, first communions, marriages, intimate celebrations of friends.” 

The book offers a B-side of Medellin’s recent history, composed of a hundred images of Jimenez and a profile written by Buitrago. A story where Pablo Escobar and drug trafficking play a central role, but where the actions of the left and the struggle of the M-19, a guerrilla group of which Jiménez was a militant, or the ins and outs of the social life of the middle class, which often took place in chess clubs, are also recorded.

Many of the characters portrayed in Chino’s photos are anonymous. “There are a lot of characters linked to crime or who had a tragic end because of their relationship with drug trafficking. They were murdered, fell in the war against the State, were killed by the mafia or were kidnapped,” explains Buitrago. Hence the feeling of “antisocial pages.” But what we see most oft