Escape 30 years ago Pablo Escobarhead of the Medellin cartel, Cathedrala luxurious prison, which he himself built on a mountain near this city, is one of the largest insults Colombia because it was a demonstration that drug trafficking riddled with politics, economics, justice, police and army.
So the writer assures in an interview with Efe Rafael Ballenauthor “The Escape of Pablo Escobar” (Publishing Icon), the novel that collects this episode and is based on research work which he did when he was authorized prosecutor for the armed forces.
In the book, we can find “a description of a corrupt society, like that society of the 70s, 80s, 90s, it was corrupt society at all levels: local, regional and national authorities, everywhere, so that society suffers from money from drug trafficking, ”the author assures.
At 270 pages, the author also includes the human part of the political leader. Luis Carlos Galankilled in August 1989, murder attributed to justice alliance Medellin cartel with political circles and state agents opposing the figure extradition which was defended by the murdered politician.
“Now, Thursday, the 21st, marks the 30th anniversary of the escape, the insult that society and the Colombian state received when they saw how a man built his own prisongot there and lived like a king, with his people, and made big bacchanalia, and the moment he wanted to leave the cathedral, he left, ”says Ballen.
The book also collected Pablo Escobar’s relationship with mafia usaas well as a minute-by-minute timeline of the leak from 3:30 pm June 21, 1992 to 11:20 pm, as narrated by its protagonists.
historical accuracy
Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombia’s most dangerous drug trafficker, is on trial. June 19, 1991 and escaped from the cathedral 405 days Later, July 21, 1992
Cathedral, which used to be the center rehabilitation for drug addicts, was occupied by Escobar and nine of his closest aides after an agreement was reached with the then President of Colombia, Caesar Gaviriafor which the head of the drug cartel agreed to go to prison in exchange for the abolition by the government extradition agreement with the United States.
Regarding the escape, “public opinion at the moment does not know whether it was at 11 am or the next day, the 22nd. It really was 21st at 23:00 when the fog was very thick and absorbed all the light from the lanterns or bulbs that were around the cathedral,” says Ballen, author of more than a dozen books, including Cenizas, La vida excario de Constantina, and Bloody Crossings.
“Tirofix. Whole body” D “The Escape of Pablo Escobar” are part of a five-book saga about the armed conflict in Colombia that Ballen, a lawyer and Juris Doctor from University of Zaragozastudying for over 30 years.
Ballen recalls that Escobar decided to leave “your luxury hotel” because he knew that the Colombian government was going to change his place of detention after verifying that continued to commit crimes from La Catedral, because from there he moved his crime shop, killed his enemies, hosted politicians, artists, beauty queens and even football players.
Prison, tailored under the capo, it gave him a view of Medellin because he was on a mountain in the village of La Catedral, which is part of Envigado, a city near the capital of Antioquia.
They had luxury rooms, multiple playrooms, a gym, dollhouses, a natural waterfall, and even a soccer field, all with expensive finish and fenced with an electrified grid, which made this place a fortress for the capos.
double insult
Before what happened at La Catedral, Colombia also suffered another 40-year-old insult, Ballen said, as he claims that Escobar was elected congressman when it became known that he was involved in the drug trade.since in 1977 he was arrested for transporting 39 kg of cocaine in the department of Nariño.
However, Escobar was walking the corridors of the Congress of the Republic when he was elected deputy to Jairo Ortega, representative in the House for the department of Antioquia (northwest).
“The country suffered many insults (…), but I think that the greatest humiliation that Colombia suffered in those years was its choice as a congressman in 1982,” says Ballen.
Despite three decades since Escobar and his men fled, Ballen believes those involved they have to tell the truth about what happened while.
“It would be very good if they told the truth,” emphasizes Ballen, who insists that “Colombian society puts up with this, agrees that they are telling the truth.” turn this dark page stories with a commitment to “work for the new state”. (EFE)
Source: RPP
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