7/6/2023 0 Comments Juan pablo escobar![]() ![]() “I spent half my life in Colombia as Juan Pablo and the other half here as Sebastián so I feel I’ve learnt from both places and I feel part of both. He left his homeland aged 16 and although he doesn’t sound obviously Colombian, he also has no distinctive Argentine accent either. Sebastián has returned twice to Colombia: once to meet the Galán brothers and second, for the premiere. The only thing that remained was to advance and share with the next generation what has happened.” “We were still exposed when we changed our identity and residency and when your secret place is no longer secret, and neither is your name, that led me to realise that there is nothing left to hide. I always wanted to find another way of telling it - not so I was putting my father on a pedestal - but so we become aware of it so it doesn’t happen again. “So I wanted to tell the story but not more of the same in which they simply tell the story and don’t leave you with a message. But I think everything happens for a reason with specific synchrony. I’ve never hidden what has happened to me from anyone, but I realised this would give a vision to other families who have suffered at the hands of violence. “Nicolás in fact called me a year before and I said’ no’. And that’s when I thought this story could have an interesting turn.”īy the children, he is referring to Rodrigo Lara Restrepo and the Galán brothers, Juan Manuel, Carlos and Claudio, sons of the murdered politicians who meet Sebastián for the first time in Pecados. “But Nicolás suggested telling the story from the children’s point of view, not just mine, so as to integrate everybody else’s point of view. So I’ve always said ‘no’ to those kinds of proposals. I never agreed with that idea because it seemed the opposite message to the lifestyle that I’ve chosen to lead. “I’ve rejected lots of money-making projects because they glorified the gangster style and image of my father. Saying that “everybody thought it logical I would become ‘Escobar 2.0’,” Sebastián is now an architect, married and based in Palermo. Preferring to be interviewed in Spanish as “we are talking about very delicate subject matter and I might not be able to communicate the correct message if I don’t do it in my language,” Sebastián Marroquín, as Juan Pablo is now known, is polite, calm and maintains eye contact throughout. And 16 years on, after countless proposals, Escobar’s son has finally agreed to share his memories in Pecados de mi padres (Sins of My Father), a documentary by Argentine director Nicolás Entel, in the hope of ending the violence in Colombia. To cut to the end, the family moved to Mozambique but ended up in Argentina. ![]() Following his 1993 death after a prolonged effort from the Colombian military, US special forces and death squad Los Pepes, Victoria Henao Vallejos, Juan Pablo Escobar and Manuela Escobar, respectively the drug baron’s wife, son and daughter, fled the country. ![]() Thousands of people died due to the lucrative-beyond-your-wildest-dreams turf war while 10 percent of Colombia’s population remains displaced.īut until now, a word has never been publically uttered about Escobar by the people closest to him: his family. Responsible for years of bloodshed between rival cartels and the kidnapping and killing of dozens politicians and journalists (Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla and Luis Carlos Galán, presidential candidate on the verge of election, were just two of his victims), at one time Escobar was said to be responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine entering the US. The intriguing 2001 biography of how the small-time car thief from Medellín became a millionaire criminal capable of bringing his government to its knees has predictably gone the same way as Black Hawk Down - a Hollywood version starring Christian Bale is set for release in 2011. Until now, Mark Bowden’s Killing Pablo, a North American author who also penned Black Hawk Down, has been the authoritative guide to the life and demise of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. ![]()
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