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Eric Newman, who co-created Narcos with José Padilha, stresses that the Netflix series will not celebrate the man once described as “the Robin Hood of Medellín”. It’s a very complicated story,” Newman says. “America is the largest market for cocaine in the world by far and I don’t think we, even today, look at the violence in Mexico and think, as a people, ‘wow, we are actually causing that’. So I think there’s a giant ignorance. I’m not presumptuous enough to think we’re going to dispel that and wake everybody up, but hopefully people are going to say, ‘Wow. This is more complicated than I had previously thought’.” Escobar’s private zoo was home to some 200 animals, including elephants, ostriches, zebras, camels, and giraffes. Many of the creatures were smuggled into the country aboard Escobar’s drug planes. After his death in 1993, most of the animals were transferred to zoos. However, four hippopotamuses were left behind. They soon multiplied, and by 2016 upwards of 40 lived in the area. The potentially dangerous animals have damaged farms and inspired fear in locals. Authorities began castrating male hippos in an effort to control the population.

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Moreover, cops like Peña felt unsatisfied by the fact that Escobar was now in prison after having surrendered on his own terms. As he recalled: How did someone so heavily hunted manage to evade capture for almost 18 months? That must have been really frustrating.Steve Murphy/ Texas Monthly Javier Peña at the Colombian National Police Headquarters following a seizure of some of Pablo Escobar’s money, gold, and a .45 caliber gold-plated pistol. Pablo Emilio Escobar 1949 – 1993 9 Billion USD – The business of crime – 5 'success' stories". MSN. 17 January 2011. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011 . Retrieved 16 March 2011. Getty Images Actor Pedro Pascal (left), who portrays Javier Peña (right) in the Netflix hit Narcos. S: We didn't know that. The person who found Pablo Escobar was actually Col. Martínez's son, Lt. Martínez. That's the day Pablo was calling his son, Juan, with instructions to call the government and the press, because he was ready to declare war against the government for the third time. That day, he stayed on the phone too long. Lt. Martínez was very proficient at using the equipment that helped locate Pablo's phone, so he's the one who found Pablo that day.

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Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born in 1949 to a poor family in Rionegro, a village outside Medellin, his father a poor farmer and his mother a schoolteacher. Colombian 1985 Supreme Court raid commander sentenced". BBC News. 29 April 2011. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019 . Retrieved 21 June 2018. Upon their return from a drug run to Ecuador in May 1976, Escobar and a number of his men were arrested on charges of drug possession: cocaine.

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Nagvekar, Rahul (8 March 2017). "Zoo Gone Wild: After Escobar, Colombia Faces His Hippos". The Politic. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017 . Retrieved 25 August 2017. La Catedral,” as the prison was called, was more like a resort. Escobar had access to every comfort whilst inside. “Pablo Escobar had a suite,” Murphy later remembered. “He had a living room, a kitchen in one room, and the other consisted of a master bedroom and an office combination. The bathroom had its own jacuzzi. The prison itself contained its own discotheque, its own bar.” Escobar, Roberto (2012). Escobar. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1848942912. Archived from the original on 18 October 2023 . Retrieved 19 May 2023. See also: Illegal drug trade in Colombia, Illegal drug trade in Panama, and Illegal drug trade in the Bahamas Early Of course, with that kind of money came problems. To maintain his hold on the cocaine trade, Escobar had to make it clear that he would kill anyone who crossed him, including judges and government officials.