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    "I confronted him about the deaths attributed to him on the TV news," he recalls now. "He started calling me 'my 14-year-old pacifist son'. But no one could stop my father. Not all of Colombia, together with the help of the CIA. So what could the son of Pablo Escobar do?" Nearly two decades later, Pablo Escobar is long dead, gunned down in 1993 on a rooftop in Medellín, home of the drug cartel that made him one of the most feared men in Latin America. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
    He started calling me 'my 14-year-old pacifist son'. But no one could stop my father. Not all of Colombia, together with the help of the CIA. So what could the son of Pablo Escobar do?
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
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Pablo Escobar's son atones for his father
  1. At first I planned to make a documentary on the life of Escobar, but I quickly realised that it would be much more interesting to bring the son of Escobar together with his father's victims.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  2. We are all the victims of drug trafficking. We have nothing to forgive you, because you are not Pablo Escobar.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  3. I confronted him about the deaths attributed to him on the TV news
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  4. It's very hard to separate these facts from our names. This involves our loved ones, our families, the terrible death of your father, but in the end we are all orphans.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  5. I was called to a meeting with enemies of my father ... and told I would be allowed to live on two conditions: that I leave Colombia permanently and that I promised never to get involved in drug trafficking.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  6. That very brave letter took us completely by surprise ... He's searching for peace for himself and for those around him, in contrast with his father, who sowed violence and death.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  7. How do you start a conversation?
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  8. My father called the shots in Colombia ... He was running the country.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  9. I planned in my head at the age of eight how I would shoot the men who had killed my father ... Violence is inherited, hatred is inherited in Colombia.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  10. A great deal of young people want to live the life of Pablo Escobar ... but if they knew what that really meant nobody would dare do that.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago

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