Juan recalls the last him he saw his father alive, “I remember we were at Casa Azul, where we were hiding with my father at the time. Though this plan didn’t last long and after eight months the Escobar’s realised the dangers of living in exile and the difficulty to escape, and so the family sought the protection of the Colombian government.
He added: “ You didn’t know where you were, but you were with him.” We were in at least six different safe houses. “We’d go to places blindfolded, we’d go to various hiding spots. “My father asked us to hide with him because we couldn’t be safe outside,” he said. Pablo Escobar was shot dead aged 44 in 1993 Sky When Escobar eventually handed himself into police in 1991, he escaped from his self-built “ La Catedral” prison just a year later, where Juan details life on the run as a teen after he and his family to fleed with his dad.
“When you are born an Escobar, you have no right to happiness or calm.” Juan Pablo - who now goes by the name of Sebastian Marroquin - explains what it meant to be the son of Pablo Escobar.
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Others featured in the series described how Juan never wore the same clothes twice, and was surrounded with “machine guns, cocaine shipments, prostitutes, amongst bags of money and millions of dollars, aeroplanes, yachts, luxury cars” throughout his childhood. He described his father as “one of the richest men on the planet” was able to provide some shocking stats about his dad’s power in the drug cartel business during his “golden age,” Juan revealed at this time the country of Colombia “had 200,000 acres planted with cocaine.”įor a typical weekend in Miami alone, Escobar “had an average income of between 50 and 70 million dollars.” Juan as a child (left) with father Pablo Escobar (right) Sky
He is now a 39-year-old architect living in Argentina.“When I was four, my dad gave me my first motorbike,” he says. “Forensic investigators who performed the autopsy told us it was suicide but that they were threatened by the authorities not to disclose the truth in their final report.”Įscobar, the Medellin cartel chief’s only son, was 17 when his father died. 3, 1993 because the coroner was ordered not to contradict the official version of events - that heroic Colombian forces cut down the world’s mightiest cocaine trafficker, Escobar tells The Post. The world never knew of this suicidal last stand on Dec. “My father always told me that he had 15 bullets in his pistol 14 were for his enemies and the last one for him,” he says. Juan Pablo Escobar says his father took his own life, but the drug kingpin’s last moments were covered up by Colombian authorities.Shot in the shoulder and leg and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Escobar, cornered on the roof of a Medellin safe house, put his own Sig Sauer pistol to the right side of his head and pulled the trigger, his son says. Shot in the shoulder and leg and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Escobar, cornered on the roof of a Medellin safe house, put his own Sig Sauer pistol to the right side of his head and pulled the trigger, his son says. Pablo Escobar’s son says his father took his own life, but the drug kingpin’s last moments were covered up by Colombian authorities.
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