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Category: In the world, an etude in cartel tones
Text: Alexander Kornev
Touching moments from the life of drug lord Pablo Escobar
From the photo from the police station, a charming man with the appearance of an opera singer, a lush mustache and sly eyes surrounded by kind wrinkles is smiling broadly.
Thousands of people were killed on his orders, he turned Colombia into a military camp.
He built and distributed houses to the poor, at his funeral people sobbed and threw themselves on the coffin - thousands of people.
Drug lord Pablo Escobar has gone down in history as a controversial figure.
For some, a monster who executed right and left, for others Robin Hood and the embodiment of the Latin American dream.
This man was larger than life, the Americans who fought with him admit.
"Every person is a saint for someone"
Photo:Jose Gomez/ Reuters
In keeping with the image of Robin Hood, Escobar took care of the poor.
He built and distributed entire blocks of free housing to the poor in his native Medellin.
They say that their inhabitants did not even pay taxes and lived for their own pleasure.
Escobar spent a huge part of his income on charity.
However, there is an opinion that in this way he bought himself popular support.
As a result, photos of the drug lord are still displayed on many family altars of Colombians.
"All I wanted was to make Colombia a better place"
Escobar quite seriously believed that someday the cocaine trade would be legalized, and this business would make Colombia a prosperous country.
He cited the Kennedy family as an example.
Their ancestors were smugglers, bootleggers, and eventually one of the Kennedys became president of the United States.
Escobar was a romantic.
There are photos where he is dressed in the costumes of his idols - Al Capone and the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
"A person is obliged to fight for his family and his property, and if he needs weapons for this, so be it"
Photo:Reuters Photographer
Escobar had 400 mistresses, for whom he built a whole town.
At least, that's what they say.
But there is another story.
When one of the drug lord's girlfriends, 15 year old Maria, became pregnant, he did not kill her and did not take her out of sight.
Escobar married a girl, and she bore him two wonderful children a son, Juan Pablo, and a daughter, Manuella.
He tried all his life to be a good husband and father.
"In this life, I can find a replacement for any thing, but I will never find a replacement for my wife and children"
Relatives of the drug lord say that Pablo doted on his children, and when the clouds gathered over the head of the cartel, first of all he took care not of himself, but of his family.
Once, hiding from government agents, Escobar, along with his son and daughter, found himself in a high altitude shelter.
The night was extremely cold, and in an attempt to warm his daughter, Escobar burned almost two million dollars in cash.
"When you're dead, you have nothing to be afraid of"
Photo:Jose Gomez/ Reuters
After the US announced a hunt for Escobar, he had to go into hiding.
The National Security Agency chased him across the country like a wild animal, hoping that sooner or later he would fall.
The cartel was no longer there, Escobar did not see his family for a long time.
He couldnot call them either - the NSA would have immediately figured him out on the call.
On December 1, 1993, he turned 44 years old.
Escobar met his birthday at a secret apartment.
He picked up the phone and called his son Juan, talking with him for a full five minutes - more than enough for the special services to determine where the drug lord is.
"So I say to you: goodbye and take care of yourself"
When Escobar's arrest began, he tried to escape, shooting at the windows of houses, while agents fired at him from the street.
He did not understand where death came from.
The last photo of Escobar: a middle aged man, barefoot, in rolled up jeans and a T shirt covered with blood, pulled up on a plentiful stomach, lies on the roof of a barn.
The shooters were willingly photographed against the background of the trophy.
About 20 thousand people came to Escobar's funeral and cried.
As the funeral witnesses note, they were not hired actors.
The feelings were sincere.
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