32 years after the death of Pablo Escobar at the hands of the Colombian security forces’ inspection unit, Daniel EscobarThe grandson of a drug dealer, He still suffers because of his last name.
In conversation with “Los Informantes”, a report shared by Noticias Caracol, grandson Roberto Escobar And son Nicolas Escobar states that “The stigma persists“.
He was born in Spain in the same year that Escobar died. After he was expelled from Colombia due to his relationship with the smuggler, his parents tried to live “in seven or eight countries and were all kicked out of them.” “Reference” and “persecution” were inevitable.
Daniel had “the best in the world” and felt “in a golden cage”, “but he couldn’t do anything” with it.
These restrictions shaped his education. According to him, Daniel belonged to a private school that was opened in Medellin to serve as a refuge for the children and grandchildren of the cartel led by Pablo.
At that school, luxury mixed with a culture of intimidation: “For me it was normal to say: I went in this direction with my father on my plane. For my friends, it was normal that your father had 100 or 200 horses, or at least three or four farms, and they would pick you up every day in different cars.”
“Inside everyone was armed.”. Outside the classroom, bodyguards were waiting for the boys to escort them out or take care of them in case of any disturbance.
Daniel believes that teachers know everything. “I imagine if we played a football match and said this is a goal, it must be a goal.”
“At a time when our parents were not prepared to know how to deal with us, we were isolated from the world. It was a country within a country, and they moved on their own, and if you go to a shopping mall in Medellin, if that shopping center is owned by a certain partner, we go there and they respect us,” Daniel concludes.
The character’s nephew always knew who his great uncle was, even though as a child he never knew of his criminal raid. He was a man respected by everyone in his family.
Pablo Escobar Gavirialeader of the Medellin Cartel, was killed on December 2, 1993 by Cmdr Hugo Aguilar NaranjoWho was shot after a short chase through the rooftops of the Los Olivos neighborhood.
Escobar had holed up there after escaping from La Catedral prison. He had been on the run for weeks and was increasingly lonely. He was intercepted by a search unit made up of police, military and DEA agents, after a call he made to his wife.
Legend has it that Aguilar, having achieved his goal, would call and shout: “Long live Colombia, we won!”. Then came the famous cover photo of Naranjo carrying the dismembered body of the drug trafficker.
The official account of Escobar’s killing places Aguilar as the man who shot him. However, the end of the drug dealer would be, as of December 2, 1993, Multiple legends center. Was he killed by a hostile drug group? Did he take his own life?