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After Pablo Escobar's death

his son, Juan Pablo, changed his name to Sebastian Marroquin,

and moved to Buenos Aires

After 12 years of living in exile,

this is the first time Sebastian and his mother

Maria Isabel Santos have decided to break their silence

and share their personal files.

This is my father when he took his first Holy Communion.

l cherish this picture very much.

For me, it's like my company at night. It sleeps with me.

Nobody would be able to recognize the boy in the picture.

And I'd be able to show it to all my friends here

or anybody l knew .

It was like the only moment of honesty l could share with my friends

when l showed them the picture of my father ,

and the only moment l didn't fear my identitywas discovered.

l don't evertell anybody who my father was.

If they find out or ask me, we talk.

If they don't..

I'm nobody.

My father was considered to be somebody

for his temerity, for his fame, whatever.

He was the best at cheating.

The deception started right now.

If we planned to play Monopoly at night,

he started cheating hours earlier.

He went or sent someone to the game box to take bills.

He spread them around.

He knew were he would sit at night in the living room,

so he'd put bills under the carpet, the coffee table,

under the sofa where he'd sit, next to him...

Of course hours later, we sat down and opened the box for the first time.

We handed out the bills and stuff according to the rules of the game

Everything was neat

This man had terrible luck, but he was always loaded with money.

I've learned a lot of things from my father , a lot of nice things.

The most important one is that if l want to live,

l have to do the opposite of him.

That was my lesson.

If l wanted to be dead, and l would be already,

l wouId've followed his lead.

Sebastian was only 16 years old when in December, 1993,

his father was killed in Medellin,

the city that had seen him grow up and become powerful.

A female reporter broke the news to Sebastian.

- Hello. - Hello. Don't bug us now.

We're watching TV and think the news about my dad is false

The police has just confirmed it.

He was at the Obelisco Mall, in the center of Medellin.

What was he doing there?

I don't know. The police have just given an official report.

What a fucking day.

We don't wanna talk right now.

I am going to kill all of those sons of bitches who killed him.

I'm going to kill them myself.

Being part of this family, l know that l, Pablo Escobar ,

have lost the right to get angry forever.

l shouldn't have gotten angry as l did.

l shouldn't have lashed out as l did the day my father died.

ln a violent situation like that,

any teenager could have reacted the same way,

but l did, and being an Escobar , that caused a great impact.

If they do something mean to me, l can't get angry .

''You are Pablo Escobar's son, so you are dangerous.''

I'm not the right person to justify my father's actions

And l think every time l try to get involved,

that's exactly when l go wrong and start believing

it is me who has to account for my father's actions

It'd be really easy for us as relatives to criticize Pablo Escobar , the person,

even more vigorously.

We'd befriend people more easily, but that wouldn't be honest.

People cannot forbid us to love my father .

They cannot deny we've had an affectionate relationshipwith him,

an ordinary family relationship.

l think there's something more important

than criticizing Pablo Escobar so that people will like us.

l think we have to explore that story,

understand it from beginning to end,

and l think we have to make society aware

so that it won't happen again.

present

NAPOLES ESTATE

He had an encyclopedia of wildlife

from where he'd choose the animals he wanted to have at the estate.

We arrived at immense green areas where they'd have certain species.

We looked at them, and he chose the ones he wanted.

l remember he told me, ''My partner will kill me

when he finds out l spent $2 million buying animals.''

There was a tremendous amount of luxury at the estate.

We had everything.

There was nothing else to spend the money on.

l think he was eager to spend money for enjoyment, to amuse us.

But there came a time in life

when there were no more things to be surprised about.

There was nothing else to buy.

He bought a macaw for a million dollars

And l bought a painting for a million pesos.

I'd say to him, ''Listen, art remains alive;

however, a macaw will die.''

Those were our arguments.

Those were my toys.

The little cars we used to compete with down the house racetrack.

People think l was a spoiled rich kid, and they are right.

l had everything. l asked for something and got it.

That's how l was raised, surrounded by excesses by luxury ...

in that incoherent world.

My father was at his peak during my childhood.

Our visit to this unique place has come to an end.

The philosophy behind this fabulous estate

is based on the love for life.

It looks toward the future,

enhancing human quality,

preserving nature.

At that time, cocaine was supposedly

the best thing that could be happening to society .

It started to be considered as something glamorous,

as something that had to be followed like a fashion.

It was set.

But it was something global.

It didn't just happen in Colombian society .

For my father , working was the easiest thing in the world

because he'd travel and stay in the best hotel in Miami.

He'd rent two or three whole floors.

He made up the Fredonia Petroleum Company.

It was a fantasy name of a town

where there's no petroleum in Colombia.

He worked normally there.

He met people and did everything he wanted

from the best hotel in Miami in plain sight.

It was obvious he met with notorious American gangster

It was absurd for them to believe the company story.

However, they went unnoticed.

He entered the country with money. He entered and left.

He declared it as his.

He entered with $4 million once,

on another occasion with $700,000.

Nobody said anything to him.

They'd say , ''Welcome to the U.S., Mr . Pablo Escobar .''

He went there, bought stuff, and did his business...

legally; everything he did, he did it using his name.

He didn't conceal his identity to enter the U.S. with money

and buy property there.

Everybody dreams of going to Disney.

The father became a child in that park with Sebastian.

He went up in every roller coaster even if he was scared to death of them

because he didn't like roller coasters.

But he did everything he could to see Sebastian happy.

In the early '80s, Escobar was at the top of the world.

He had the family he had alwys dreamed of

and he was the boss of the Medellin Cartel,

which controlled 80% of the world's cocaine market.

Escobar was already one of the richest men in Colombia.

He used part of his wealth to help the less fortunate.

THESE ARE LONG-LASTING WORKS THANKS...

His charity work included the building of dozens of football fields.

You plan to build 50 fields.

Yes, in every municipality, because we want them all--

every neighborhood, no matter how marginal they are--

to participate in and benefit from these programs.

Do you consider yourself Antioquia's Robin Hood?

Not at all.

FOR WORKS THAT LAST SPORTS YOUTH

-CONGRATULATES PABLO ESCOBAR -But it's a very interesting name.

Those who know Robin Hood's story

know perfectly well that he fought for and defended the poor.

His most ambitious project

was the construction of hundreds of houses

destined for families who lived in a municipal dumpster.

The complex, known as Barrio Pablo Escobar, still exists.

There are more than 5,000 people living here.

Ofcourse, we're very grateful to our fellow Pablo Escobar Gaviria.

We believe we'll be very happy as of March.

We'll be transferred to La Milagrosa then,

and we'll feel very happy.

What else could a man who had discovered a magic formula

to make money dedicate him self to?

How could he get more power

than the power money was already giving him?

l think that's when he decided to get involved in politics..

to get the power from the masses.

Today, we're the new political force of the department.

We're the liberal hope of the Antioquian people.

Escobar had even bigger plans.

He wanted political power.

That's why he decided to support the recently formed party

New Liberalism, funded by LUis Carlos Galan

and Rodrigo Lara Bonilla.

Soon after Sebastian agreed to bepart of this project,

we traveled to Bogota to meet Rodrigo Lara.

Twenty-five years earlier, his father had been

the first to publicly condemn Escobar

l never talk about my father in public.

It's very weird. l mean, l talk about my father because l have to.

It takes a very special setting for that to happen.

He used to say that they , Galan and he, went to Middle Magdalena

He told me they didn't understand why they received so much support,

why there were so many people so eager to support them

when they'd never set foot in those municipalities before.

They didn't understand why.

l told him that it was a great success, the campaign had a great impact.

So they started asking people who the political leader

that brought them there was.

''That's Pablo Escobar . He tells us to vote for you.

Pablo's generous He gives us fridges and money.''

They wondered who this Mr . Pablo Escobar was.

They cared about him so much.

He told me he asked, if l remember correctly,

to a Medellin broker and this and that, and the three of them told him

that he was an extremly rich guy, but also an extremly danger guy.

When they realized who he was, they expelled him publicly.

He's left outside the movement.

For Pablo Escobar , that was humiliating.

l think from then on, he started to feel deep hatred,

which led to what we all know happened against New Liberalism.

Despite the expulsion from the party,

Escobar made use of his fortune and popularity

to be elected in Congress.

l think at some point in his life,

he must have flirted with the idea of becoming president of Colombia.

We went to Congress.

He would tell me to get ready to be the First Lady.

He was sure he'd make it.

Soon after, Lara Bonilla was appointed Minister of Justice

His determination to fight drug trafficking

turned him into a threat to Escobar

The country should learn the truth of certain powerful captains

who thought that the tax amnesty meant forgetting the crimes

whose holders committed to make their fantastic fortunes.

Up to that moment, no one had ever reported them.

They turned into ordinary citizens..

who were in fashion.

Up to the clash between Rodrigo Lara and my father ...

up to then, my father ruled in Colombia.

He decided what to do or not to do in that country .

I want to inform public opinion that the Minister of Justice

has a 24-hour deadline to submit the evidence

regarding the accusation he made against me #

in the Chamber of Representatives

My father said that Pablo Escobar was an important drug dealer,

and usually, drug dealers always demand proof of that.

Can you assure us your money

has never been connected to drug trafficking?

I have alwys confirmed that my money

has nothing to do with drug dealing.

How did you amass your money, your immense amount of money?

In Antioquia, everbody knows about my investments

in industry, cattle, and construction

They tried to kill him morally, a common strategy of them,

to tarnish his reputation.

And they thought that way

they would calm him down or blackmail him.

The Minister of Justice made an unfair accusation against me

and I have filed a criminal complaint

because he has committed the crime of slander,

which the Colombian Penal Code punishes with 1-4 years in prison

We're dealing with a rise in drug trafficking.

Today, these people seek the expulsion of a cabinet member

because they find him inconvenient for their evil deeds

Escobar's attemts to intimidate Lara Bonilla were nsuccessful.

In March 1984, the minister ordered the raid of Tranquilandia

the biggest cocaine lab ever found.

In a few hours, Escobar and his partners

lost a dozen planes and helicopters

and almoust 14 tons of cocaine worth $1.2 billion

My father's pressure, the accusations and the confrotation

forced Pablo Escobar to resign from his seat in Congress.

Let's say he took Escobar's mask off.

l think that maybe after that, he flew off the handle.

He went completely off the handle. He totally lost control.

As far as l know , he got calls telling him,

''See, Minister, right now, your sons Rodrigo, Jorge Pablo

''are getting out of school and you're never gonna see them again.

Goodbye, Minister.''

I'll protect myself anyway.

Because I think they'll try to get back at me anyway

for what I did to put criminals in their place.

There were many important people in the country who'd say to him,

''Don't fight against these guys. They're going to kill you.''

The Minister of Justice lied to the country

when he said he wouldn't step off.

We'll see what happens in the next few days.

April 30, 1984, just a month after Tranquilandia

hired assassins paid by Escobar killed Rodrigo Lara Bonilla.

People still remember him and laugh.

Because he was a very nice man.

He had a great sense of humor.

He was a very good father .

He.. really enjoyed spending time with his sons.

What made him get mixed up?

What made him take the decision to spread the drug trafficking business

with blood... with Lara's death?

When my father died, l was eight years old.

And the first feeling that went through me

was avenging his death.

l remember listening to music thinking of when I'd hold a gun

to avenge his death.

Right then, one could maybe imagine

what went through my father's mind

when Lara denounced him like he did.

Not even with all the money and power in the world

would he be able to take Lara'swords back.

From 1984, the year Rodrigo's father died,

our lives changed forever.

How could he not tell what was about to happen,

or what his family was about to experience

and suffer due to his decisions?

Early in the morning, we left for Panama.

l think Panama has always been a cherished route for drug dealers.

ln the middle of the jungle,

the helicopter barely had a gap to land in.

We stayed in a mansion General Noriega had gotten my father .

It was next to a golf course which you could access directly.

He had fled from Colombia, a fugitive from justice.

However, very respectable politicians in the country at the time

visited him to see how he'd negotiate his return to Colombia.

A particular event continues to attract the media's attention.

Colombia's ex-president Alfonco Lopez visited Escobar in Panama

This originated the rumor that Escobar

had offered to pay Colombia's external debt

in exchange for amnesty for his crimes

My father's offer to pay Colombia's external debtwas a lie.

He never offered something like that.

l know because l asked him.

That's just part of the myth. It wasn't true.

The story between my father and Noriega ended badly

because, according to my father , Noriega stole a plane

and $3 million from him.

Escobar mistrusted his host, General Noriega

He feared he would turn him in to the United States

That's why he took his family and went to Nicaragua

Sebastian was seven years old

You could say that my father went from being protected by Noriega

to being protected by the Sandinista government.

Nicaraguawas desolated.

It was a sad country , burdened with the war.

l spent the worst days of my life in Nicaragua.

I'd cry. The only thing l did was cry.

They called me to lunch and l cried. They called me out to play and l cried.

They called me to play in the backyard and l cried because l saw a huge wall.

We ran away from a violent place to get to another violent country .

You could feel it in the air .

When l was seven years old, my life was the life of a criminal.

l was suffering the same as if l had ordered the murders.

Meanwhile the U.S. was already after Escobar

A D.E.A. informant took pictures of him

while loading a plane with cocaine in Nicaragua

My father was a fugitive, but he decided to return to Colombia

despite being chased.

He really feared being easily extradited to another country .

l don't know if the government wasn't prepared enough to go after him;

however, my father was very prepared to avoid being caught.

-Hello? -Hello?

- What's up? - Maza Marquez sent

a commission of about 400 men here in Medellin.

Yeah.

Every time they went looking for him,

the first one who knew where they were heading was Pablo.

- The pilots should let us know. - They'll tell us immediately.

Okay, then. Bye.

And my father walked freely around the city with 30 or 40 guards.

That moment of joy and tranquility didn't last long

because the war period with the Cali Cartel started.

Back then, Escobar and the Medellin Cartel

faced a harsh competitor.

A second cartel with its headquarters in the city of Cali

started to fight for cocaine market control.

In 1988, the rising rivalry between the two cartels turned into a war

after the detonation of a car bomb

in front of the building where Escobar's family lived.

I'm Pablo's brother.

Pablo is very offended because they are harassing his family.

Don't mess with his family

because whoever does that, whoever dares to do that

will be in trouble, brother.

Apart from the Cali Cartel, Escobar had another powerful enemy,

LUis Carlos Galan

He had founded New Liberalism together with Lara Bonilla.

Five years had passed after the Minister of Justice's murder,

and Galan was favorite to win the presidential elections

We've had to fight

against the most serious of problems in Colombian society.

It arrived in our country

as it did in more than 60 countries around the world.

I'm talking about the obscure and criminal power of drug trafficking.

l read some documents when l was 11

in which he denounced the infiltration of drug money

into politics in the year '78.

He didn't do it because he was a moralist

or because he deemed drugs or a joint immoral,

he didn't do it because of that.

He considered the corruptive power of drug money immoral.

l think my father was the last politician in Colombia

who gathered huge crowds rallied by one man.

The only incentive in his demonstrations

was going to listen to him.

We're changing the mindset of the Colombian people,

which is what's needed so we can progress!

Political leaders are never remembered

by the number of hospitals they built, orthe schools, roads or bridges.

Leaders are remembered for that change

in the way a society thinks at a certain point.

The Kennedys, the Martin Luther Kings,

the Gandhis...

l think the country remembers Luis Carlos Galan because of that,

because he somehow brought about a change in the way people thought

and caused an impact in Colombia's collective consciousness

So that no other Colombian feels ashamed

of showing his passport again

At that time, we were lucky to accompany our dad.

Just once, when we toured through 60 municipalities.

I told him that 60 municipalities were enough No more.

Since l was very little l remember my dad

had always the need to have security.

But during that year, in '89, there was a threat that felt really close.

- Galan's life has been threatened - Yeah.

There may bean attempt on his life. He's got 80 guards around.

Don't explain it to me

I'm not a Galan follower. Don't try to convince me

After what happened with Rodrigo, my dad had to be much more protected

so an attempt on his life would be much harder to accomplish.

That's what l thought at the time.

He gave two statements which l think dealt with the fact

that he was a bit sad and worried.

ln one of them, he said that men could be eliminated, but not ideas.

ln the other one, a reporter cousin of mine,

told him, ''There's a chance you won't be Colombia's president.

Not now, not ever. You may never get to the presidency.''

So he told her, ''Of course that's a possibility.

''I like to follow the example of those who never got to the presidency

but who exerted much more influence on Colombia than many presidents''

And he basically mentioned cases of murdered people.

He's with us already .

Please...

He was hit!

That night, l truly hoped it wasn't serious

because l helped him put on a bullet-proof vest.

So that kept me calm, despite the waiting at the hospital.

Two or three minutes later, a doctor came out of surgery

and he asked, ''Who's the family?''

He made us have a seat and then he told us.

He didn't stall. He just told us, ''There's nothing we can do. He died.''

August 18, 1989 LUis Carlos Galan was murdered.

With him, the hope of millions of Colombians died.

It's absurd, l think, the place where Sebastian,

Rodrigo and the Galan kids were left in life being so young.

They were children when a hurricane passed

through their lives and destroyed them.

Sebastian's decision to collaborate in this project

made him reflecton the past.

In Febryary 2008 he asked us to deliver

a letter to Galan and Lara Bonilla's sons.

''Respected Claudio Juan Manuel, Carlos and Rodrigo

''How do you write to a family that was terribly hurt by your father?

''What do you say to men your age prefoundly hurt by it?''

''How do you start a conversation with someone

''who carries such a legitimate sorrow inside?

''How can you ask forgiveness to an entire nation without offending it?''

''Apart from apologizing in your father's name

''and still knowing you live in shame is that even enough?

''I'm aware of the damage my father

''has caused the country and humanity with his actions

''For one supposedly logical reason,

''I should avenge my father's death

''and that reason has fed the hatred against my family and me

''I daily wake up seeking for peace

''because what I've learned from this story

''is that I don't think anybody should act upon violence

''or use it as an exuse

''I simply don't think we come to this world to hurt each other

''I believe there are nobler reaseons to live and to enjoy life.

''I understand I was born in a fertile environment for violence,

''but the legacy of being born in such a hostile place

''couldn't have been any other than taking up the search for peace.

''I don't want to repeat history.

''With his violence, my father forced many families to live in exile,

''mainly yours,

''ignoring that by doing that, he was also surreptitiously causing

''the exile of his dearest people.

''I invite you to free ourselves from every string

''that prevents us from exteriorizing what lies in our hearts,

''from talking and being able to listen,

''from understanding that if we continue on this slide of hatred

''there won't be a future for us or the country .

Respetfully Sebastian Marroquin.''

l think that...

it's a brave gesture... and noble.

l believe that familywas forced to pay for the father's sins mainly.

We have suffered the ordeal of losing a relative.

However, maybe one cannot easily fathom his ordeal and tragedy.

Society condemns not only what Pablo Escobar meant,

but it also condemns his family, his sons and his wife.

And that condemnation is still in force.

Our fathers were killed years ago,

and somehow we've been able to heal the wounds-- not forget--

but live a normal life.

Many people still have fresh wounds

due to the violence experience in this country ,

and they easily fall victim to those common violence cycles.

For your sons

For you

For Colombia

Report drug traffickers.

Wanted: Pablo Escobar Gaviria

Cooperate. Report lnform.

Justice!Justice!Justice!

A multitude attented Galan's burial to say goodbye to their leader

and to claim justice.

With no one to replace him, Colombia's future was uncertain

It was his oldest son, Juan Manuel, only 17 years old,

who askedCesar Gaviria to take his father's place.

I want to thank the people in the name of my family,

for the solidarity you've shown to us.

And I'd like to ask Mr. Cesar Gaviria

in the name of the people and of my family

to continue my father's fight.

You have our support to be the president

Colombia wanted and needed

l knew for sure that l was taking a lot of risks,

but l would take them anyway.

We know today that Avianca's plane was dropped down to kill me.

They blew up the DAS building, causing hundreds of deaths.

It's hard to imagine a more threatened state

than the Colombian state in Escobar's era.

There's a national order not to extradite

anyone connected to Cesar Gaviria.

The order is bad. The order is bad. He has no choice.

Despite Escobar's threats,

in May 1990, Gaviria assumed Colombia's presidency.

Colombian's number one enemy is the terrorist Pablo Escobar

and his criminal organization which murders,

mercilessly and unceremoniously,

innocent children, women and men.

We have to create some really, really big chaos to be called to peace.

When there's a big war, they want us to go to peace.

That's the only formula I know.

If we hit politicians, burn their houses,

and wage a really big war,

then they have to call us to talk in peace

and then we'll solve all our problems.

I don't see another solution.

We have to fight with all our heart brother.

If we all have to die, then we'll all die.

Nothing compares to the cruelty and horror Escobar was capable of .

The entire Colombian society felt

terrorism was a resuIt of extradition.

And they'd always said once extradition was out of the picture,

they would put terrorism aside.

My father said extradition was simply the only thing those guys feared.

He realized that.

You could take their planes,

and they'd laugh because they could get them back.

You could take their cars, and they'd laugh.

Those men only fear extradition. We have to send them away.

My father was so powerful at that time of his life

that he issued decrees to his liking...

and he changed the Constitition to get awaywith his objective.

In July 1991, Escobar got what he wanted.

Colombia adopted a new Constitution,

which prohibited the extradition of Colombian citizens

for crimes committed in their country .

It was proof of the power of the drug trafficking cartels.

Whatwas happening was insane.

It was insane that only one man, a civilian, would have so much influence

on public and political autorities.

They waited until extradition was abolished from Constitition

to turn themselves in.

It's 5:00 p.m. The order has been issued

The two helicopters rise in the air.

One of them descends over El Poblado neighborhood,

right in the urban area.

There are no images, no pictures

Pablo Escobar is behind bars.

No longer fearing axtradition,

Escobar came to an agreement with the govermnet

He'd turn himself in and spend some time in prison

But not just any prison

He chose the location himself

and supervised the construction of his own prison: La Catredal.

As a consequence of the peace politics and a strengthening of justice

coming from the president and his cabinet

it is my wish to serve all the necessary years in prison

to contribute to my family's peace, to Colombia's peace,

to the strengthening and the respect for human rights,

and to the strengthening of civil power

and that of the democracy of my dear Colombian country .

I also wish with my submission

to pay tribute to all the members of the National Constituent Assembly

for their great contribution to the noble cause of national peace.

I also want to honor my parents,

my irreplaceable and unequaled wife,

my 14-year-old pacifist son,

my seven-year-old little toothless ballerina,

and all my family, whom I love so much.

Pablo Escobar Gaviria Envigado, Colombia, June 19, 1991.

They are made of straw to build the roof,

and he did the rest with some sticks.

The little pig was very satisfied after finishing his work.

He thought it was a very nice and comfortable house.

''It's wonderful having a house of my own,'' he said proudly.

Also...

That's supposed to be the voice of the Capo of all Capos..

telling a children's story.

It's a contradiction to me.

Those are things l don't fully understand

about the character my father was.

A guy who's been accused of so much violence,

and as a father , that's the image l had of him.

How can one understand that paradox at such an early age?

My dad.

l thought the letterwas a gesture that had to be responded to.

Because l think he tried to get closer and he did it honestly.

It's a clever letter, it'swell-written,

and it's a letter of someone who's opening his heart.

Three months after receiving Sebastian's letter,

Rodrigo Lara decides to take the next step.

Since Sebastian is afraid of going to Colombia,

Rodrigo agrees to come with us to Argentina to meet him.

For now, the meeting has to be kept secret

That's why it takes place in Tigre,

a suburb of Buenos Aires accessible only by boat.

- What's up? - Fine. Rodrigo, how are you?

- Fine. - A great pleasure to meet you.

- My pleasure. - How are you?

- How are you, fine? - Fine, man.

Here, thinking about everything.

Yes, imagine.

- That's good, that's good. - This is a pretty exciting moment.

The same for me.

Yes, l wanted to meet you. I'm glad l can say hello to you, sir .

Don't call me sir . We're the same age.

l really appreciate this meeting.

It's a wonderful gesture, l think, that for everyone..

personally, for my family...

what this means cannot be described with words, honestly.

l thought talking to you was very important

because, regardless of what may have happened,

you can't mix the facts, do you understand what l mean?

It's difficuIt to differentiate because there's the family involved,

there's the loved ones,

there's the terrible death of your father .

ln the end, we are all orphans.

- You never went back to Colombia? - Never.

My father died, and we had to leave.

There was no chance of staying.

Staying meant...

It meant...

waiting patiently for death.

l didn't want to follow in the footsteps of my father , you know?

The other time l was talking, l was in Bogota,

and l asked a politician,

''Do you remember Pablo Escobar's family, his son?''

And he told me, ''Yes.''

Something you said when your father died.

l remembered when he killed my dad, l also said

''I'll take revenge for my dad when l grow up.''

The image of violence.

l think the most important thing when time goes by

is that you can transform hate.

We have to lose hate, eliminate it.

When my father died, l was 16.

- How old were you? - Eight.

Eight years old.

At eight, there was already a place in your mind for revenge.

- Of course. - At eight.

Your natural reaction.

Right. That's how all human beings react.

And that's why many times...

the criminal mind thinks you have to kill your enemy

and kill its heir , too.

It's very important that we get together

because it's a statement.

We can't continue thiswave of hate, orwe'll be forever in the same...

Shit. We're in the same.

The past is hard, but it's important to look into the future.

You are a good man, a man of peace, l am a good man, a man of peace.

Let's move on, brother.

Man, really a pleasure, Rodrigo.

- My pleasure. - Man, a pleasure.

Really, a pleasure having you here.

- We move on. Move on. - Do you want to take a walk?

Let's go, let's walk.

Sebastian and Rodrigo know this is just a first step.

Galan's sons haven't replied the letter yet.

When he turned him self in and went to La Catedral,

l think that for a moment the country was moved

and felt hopeful that everything could change

and violence could end for good.

That hope soon vanished.

Escobar had turned his prison into a five-stars hotel.

From there, he continued to rule his criminal empire

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He charged tributes to other drug traffickers

and ordered murders.

President Gaviria decided to have him transferred to another prison

But Escobar had other plans.

Thirteen months after turning himself in, Escobar ran away.

From our building,

we could see the hill, La Catedral.

At a certain moment, the lights turned off .

And that's when l realized that my father had left La Catedral.

l remember that we saw in France, in the media,

Pablo Escobar's escape from La Catedral.

Never in my damn life will I becaught.

I can have them all killed. In the end, they will lose, not me

It's very easy talking about it today,

but at that time, nobody knew what was really going on.

We have to get our police force to search Escobar, capture him,

and put him at the disposal of the law.

The video shows how authorities thoroughly searched La Catedral

hours after Pablo Escobar had escaped from this prison

Many things were found, buried by the head of the cartel of Medellin

to protect the information--

documents photographs of people in his organization or possible victims

audio recordings letters and videos like this one,

which confirm that the Capo lived at ease in the prison in Envigado,

were found during the search.

A match of Barrigas versus the Picapleitos

Pablo Escobar just scored a goal.

Pablo is injured, the star of the match

It was frustrating to see that he wasn't really in prison.

First of all, he managed his own security,

and then he did whatever he wanted in the prison.

l think it was a defeat for the country and the law by crime.

After his escape Escobar became the most wanted criminal in the world.

President Gaviria sent hundreds of police officers and soldiers after him.

They had the support of the United States

The D.E.A. the C.I.A.

and even Delta Force staff moved to Medellin.

From his hideout, Escobar kept in touch with the press.

-Hello? - Maria Isabel how are you?

Pablo Escobar, I want to ask you a big favor on behalf of the country .

Why don't we do something so you can turn yourself in ?

They would give guaranteens for your life

and you could see your family.

I'm available for that.

I am more than willing to do that.

I am willing to be in an intermediate prison,

but I have to study that prison first

I can't be in just any prison

because they can use a car bomb and blow up a whole block

I will cooperate and I'm willing to anything

I'm not scared of gringos, either, you know?

I can be a link with the president but please, tell me something concrete.

Tell the president that I have the intention

of goingback to a prison other than Envigado,

but I need to know the security conditions...

But how do we tell him, Pablo?

A merciless hunt ensued,,

something for animals rather than humans.

A merciless hunt.

Everybody lost their mind.

Anything that...

Anybody who even smelled of Pablo Escobar

was a declared military target.

This country has been eager to get results at all costs.

A situation that had little to do with the guarantee of human rights.

A merciless huntwas in force.

l remember when Pablo Escobar said he wasn't only after his enemies,

but also after his enemies' families.

I want to say that if those two kids are found dead,

I will kill his mom and his cousins.

That motherfucker thinks that because he's a police officer

I'm scared of him or what?

That doesn't justify the state applying the same policy.

Living conditions changed dramatically.

For everybody.

We were all scared.

Our dream was to survive.

Before Los Pepes' release was known, facts spoke for themselfes

about the decision made by this group

about reactivating their military structure against Pablo Escobar

The paramilitary group ''Chased by Pablo Escobar,''

also known as Los Pepes,

was formed by members of the cartel of Cali,

drug traffickers from Medellin, now enemies of his old boss,

and members of the police force.

Los Pepes fought a dirty war against Escobar and his organization

There were totally unacceptable procedures.

That group called Los Pepes

were eager to destroy Escobar's properties,

to endanger Escobar's family, to stalk Escobar .

Gaviria said it's not civilians who should take the law in their hands,

referring to the group Los Pepes, who claimed responsibility

for the attacks against Escobar's family.

Just as we condemn Escobar's terrorist acts,

we also condemn the bombs against the criminals' families.

It is the state, not the civilians,

who have the law and the legitimacy of arms in its hands.

It is thought but it hasn't been proved

that members of the police force might've been involved in this.

When violence in Colombia has come from groups outside the law,

the country has been clear about what the threats are.

But when the state adopts that logic,

and those alliancess..

you don't know where the danger is.

There was practically no hope of recovery.

There were no options.

Turning in was not an option, nobody wanted him alive.

Surrendering wasn't good for anybody.

The only way out was his death.

When my father escaped from La Catedral,

he was worried about our security

and he asked us to move to the U.S.,

where we would be safer.

We had to go two hours before the plane took off .

l arrived six hours before, and l started to see movements..

Clearly, the people who were going to kill us.

There was no doubt.

Seeing four , five, six cars in a row,

four hooded men in each one.

You don't have to be a genius to realize

that something was going to happen to our family.

Journalists started to arrive...

some from the radio, who were nearby in the airport,

others by chance,

and later, TV cameras started to arrive.

Only one person from an airline

came up to me discreetly and told me,

''Whatever l can do to help you, count on me.''

l told him, ''Help me. Please bring a helicopter here.

l will pay for the rent. Have it take us out of here.''

The only thing the people who are going to kill me

don't have right now is a helicopter.

Los Pepes had control of the airport

Still, Sebastian managed to escape by helicopter

from what looked like a sure death

Fearing for their lives, Escobar had them moved to his hideout

That same night Sebastian and his sister

heard that their visa for the U.S. had been canceled

At night, we were with my father

and we saw on the news

that the ambassador at that time, Morris Busby, l think,

had ordered to cancel our visas.

That was part of the strategy to keep us as bait.

Soon after that, Sebastian, his mother and his sister

tried to leave Colombia for the second time

In November 1993, they went to Germany

where they sought, and were denied political asylum.

There, we were separated and interrogated

for hours and hours on end by the police and the lnterpol.

But the decision had already been made.

The German authorities were pressured,

and we came back into the country .

When they returned, the government decided

that Medellin was too dangerous for Escobar's family.

They were put under official protection

in a hotel owned by the armed forces in Bogota.

From there, they could also control their communications with Escobar

The army immediately cordoned off

the area of the Tequendama residence,

where the wife and two children

of the former leader of the cartel of Medellinare staying.

The main entrance is almoust closed.

A strange vehicle caught the attention of the authorities.

The bomb squad arrived immediately.

In the end, it was a false alarm.

We constantly received threats in our roooms,

from inside the hotel.

l mean, probably all our enemies were a floor below us.

Desperate to reach his family,

Escobar broke his own security rules.

We'd been told we could not receive calls

from someone who did not identify him self.

Hello, I have Mr. Pablo Escobar on the other line.

He says he wants to talk to you.

Meanwhile, there were generals inside the room.

l said, ''Hello, Grandma.'' It was his voice.

''Don't worry, Grandma, we're fine. Don't call again, everything's fine.''

''But hold on, hold on,'' my dad told me.

And l was, ''No, we're fine. Don't worry, Grandma, don't call again.''

Because l knew what he had told me.

''Don't stay on the phone. The phone is death.''

''How did you get the attorney general's office to protect you?''

There's a question asking that.

Yes, yes, don't worry.

He was dictating to me the answers for an interview

Semana magazine was doing me.

l asked him repeatedly not to do that,

that l thought l could answer them prudently...

what we had talked about so many times.

''Did you have any commitment to the attorney general's office?''

That's another question.

''For example, turning in your father?''

The call was getting too long. l was desperate

But it was like he wanted to be there with us.

The following calls, he asked for somebody else in the family,

for my mom, for Angeles.

Take care of yourself You know we need you.

Don't worry, baby, my only intention in life is fighting for you.

I'm in a cave. I'm very, very safe.

He was breaking his own golden rule.

They tracked him down until they found him.

When he saw strange movements near the house, he hung up the phone,

and before doing so, he told me, ''I'll call you right back.''

Did you talk to somebody in the attorney general's office

to relocate you abroad?

My dad was dead.

Sixteen months after escaping from La Catedral,

Escobar was finally tracked down.

Three shots ended his life on a roof in Medellin.

Sebastian was only 16 years old

when he was facedwith the most difficult dilemma of his life.

There were only two paths.

One of them was repeating history.

We don't wanna talk right now.

I am going to kill all those sons of bitches who killed him.

I am going to kill them myself.

And just by saying that, l almost carried my dad's curse on me.

l almost had to continue that story that l didn't want for my life.

Hello?

Juan Pablo, I understand your pain,

and I also understand that you're not wanted by the police.

You're calmer now, and what do you want to say?

I want to make it clear that I will not take revenge,

I will not take revenge for my father's death

All that matters to me right now is the future of my ling-suffering family.

I will struggle to make us move on

and to educate us, to be decent people.

If I can ever do something

for the peace of this country, I will doit.

Officially, l was informed about the death of my father

by the attourney general's office

l told her, ''You have what you wanted.

''Now please,

do what you must and help us get out of the country .''

In March 2007, Sebastian and his mother

agreed to go to Ecuador with us.

The plan is to drive from Quito to the border with Colombia.

Our final destination is the bridge through which they left the country

13 years ago, when Juan Pablo Escobar became Sebastian Marroquin.

l feel that the name ''Juan Pablo Escobar''

was too connected to my father's past.

Changing my name

was the only choice we found

to try and be free again.

The trip is tense

Sebastian is afraid to beso close to Colombia.

My first approach.

We'll see how many years have to go by beforewe can come back...

if the conditions are ever given for us to come back.

However, fear is always the first thing that holds me back

and my gauge to avoid going.

But l would like to have the right to choose.

Before going, Sebastian warned us he wouldn't cross that bridge again

This is as close to Colombia as he dared go.

However, being there in the border,

he decides to talk about his leaving for the first time

l feel sad he's got so much pain for not being able to be there.

After Pablo Escobar's death, my mother was told

that there would be peace, but only once l died.

She said a peace like that was no good for her,

and that she preferred to offer her life as warranty

that l would behave up to the circumstances.

My life was worth $4 million.

That was the price on my head.

That was what was offered to some friends of mine

in exchange for putting some powder in my soda.

l had to go to a meeting to see my father's enemies.

Before that meeting, l wrote my will. l really doubted I'd come out alive.

A series of conditions were imposed

that l had to obey if l didn't want to die.

One of them was leaving the country .

Another one was l couldn't get involved in drug trafficking.

l told them they didn't need to worry about the second one,

because l had learned my lesson about drug trafficking

and l thought it was a curse.

They almost killed me at that moment.

So l had to take the risk.

We decided to do it and we left.

We left our country , we left our family.

We left... everything, absolutely everything.

Have a nice trip Come back soon

We got together with our family to tell them

that they wouldn't hear from us for ten years.

l was 18.

That's when l got into a taxi, bought a local poncho to be warm,

and we crossed the bridge without problems.

l crossed first.

If anyone was caught on the way, he was by him self.

The rest had to continue.

l miss it there.

What l was telling you, freedom...

you realize you have it only when it's taken away from you.

And when your country is taken away from you...

you miss it, too.

Sebastian and his family started a new life in Buenos Aires

Sebastian studied industrial design and architecture.

His mothergot into the real estate bussines.

But eventually their past would catch up with them.

ln 1999,

four years after coming to Argentina,

an accountant who managed some of my mother's properties

and her personal accounts in Argentina

found out about our real story.

He started to pressure us to give him money for his silence,

for not telling our real identities to the Argentinean justice.

We reported him to this country's justice,

because we thought that if we paid attention to his threats,

we would be running all our lives

from every person who got close to us and found out about our identity.

We ended up in jail.

We were directly threatened by him and his attourney

that they would use part of that money

to buy cocaine and plant it in our cars.

If they found cocaine in Escobar's son's car,

the last person they would believe was Sebastian.

We were victims of a framing for money laundering,

passing false documents, and after that, illicit association.

l spent 45 days in jail,

and my mother was robbed of 18 months of her life.

It was very hard,

l had to spend months in hard and small cells.

All this because we carry Pablo Escobar's DNA

The Supreme Court ruled everything in our favor

after the most thorough investigation

l was always questioning myself, l mean,

what is going to happen with this story, with all this pain?

How long arewe going to endure this never-ending exile?

l never came back since l left the country .

My most honorable way would be silence,

to completely disappear from national life

and from what happens in the country .

Colombia is a country that's gone through different phases of violence.

Violence has been inherited.

Hate has been inherited.

In September 2008 three years after breaking his silence

and despite that he still fears for his life,

Sebastian finally decides to go to Colombia.

Very few know about this trip.

It looks like human beings in certain moments

think that the only way

to make up for damage, to make amends for it,

is by causing a proportional one.

It's the Talion Law, it's in the Bible.

But I'm Colombian, too,

l mean, l don't want to give up my nationality.

l love my country .

There's no reason l shouldn't be part of it

just because my father did things the wrong way.

With tears in my eyes, l asked Sebastian not to go.

l thought it was too risky.

l thought it was not the right time.

- Take your seat Mr . Marroquin. - Thank you.

And although the myth around my father

has contributed to generate fear

about what l may represent

regarding violence and pain,

l have to overcome that myth with facts.

l have to overcome that myth with my behavior.

At the Bogota airport, we witness Sebastian's return to Colombia.

With Rodrigo's help, we had arranged a meeting

with Galan's sons the following evening.

Two decades after the murders of Galan and Lara Bonilla,

their sons had become important figures

in Colombia's political life.

The government should make an effort.

The president should make an effort.

From his seat in Colombia's Senate,

Juan Manuel Galanhas become one of the main driving forces

behind the debate about the legalization of drugs.

In his first political foray,

his brother Carlos was elected for Bogota's City Council.

Claudio Galan is a member of the cabinet member

of Colombia's main department.

Claudio Juan Manuel, and Carlos

have never ceased to claim justice for their father's murder

or to dream about some day relaunching New Liberalism

Rodrigo Lara was elected senator, too.

His investigations against corruption gave him powerful enemies,

among them former members of Los Pepes.

Deep down, l agree.

The ideal thing would be to legalize, and we'd got rid of that business.

But there's an issue l don't want to forget.

Nothing has been in vain.

My father's sacrifice, Galan's sacrifice,

the sacrifice of so many police officers,

it's all been to prevent Colombia from being a narco-democracy,

to prevent organized crime from seizing the Colombian state.

Finally, in a historical night in Bogota,

LUis Carlos Galan's and Rodrigo Lara Bonilla's sons

meet Pablo Escobar's son.

l haven't stopped thinking about this issue,

because l think it's very important

what we're going to do tonight.

The message for the country , the message in general...

of peace.

Nothing in life happens by chance,

nothing happens by accident.

l think that things happen for a reason,

because they have to happen in a certain moment.

But l think what is happening now

is my dad has something to do...

from above, right?

Anyway, it's difficuIt to think about what we're doing.

It's not easy.

Emotionally, this is hard for me.

It's not easy to sit down and talk to the person

who of course is not responsible,

but he's the son of the person who killed our fathers.

We were saying we were feeling anxious.

We imagine you...

No, imagine.

We are all like that, l think it's difficuIt for all of us.

So sad.

Especially you, you had to lose your father ...

and a man who was going to rescue this country , right?

Thank you for the recognition.

Look...

Juan Manuel, and to all of you,

I'm deeply sorry

for what your family has been through,

and Rodrigo's, too.

So much violence and so much pain.

And I'm here to ask for your forgiveness

and to look each one of you in the eyes...

precisely because l think that's how it's supposed to be.

l wanted to say how good it was...

to see that gesture, to come to us...

to propose a meeting

that could have an important meaning for the country .

My dad always said we're all victims of drug trafficking.

l mean, obviosly, you are a victim, too,

and one of the first victims.

l think that in any case

if we have something to claim,

we would be the last ones in the list of Colombian people.

First l wanted to say

that we feel we have nothing to forgive you,

because...

we think you have nothing to do

with everything Pablo Escobar meant,

on the one hand.

On the other hand, this meeting, this gesture,

for us, it's a starting point

to continue seeking justice and truth.

I'm the only person who can say something for my father's memory.

l believe in divine justice,

and wherever he is,

l think he must regret having done what he did.

You have been a victim,

and I'm pleased to shake your hand,

to even hug you and tell you,

''Let's move on. Let's all move on...''

following a good path and really hoping this gesture

contributes to building a better country ,

a country better than the one we had to live in in our childhood.

Some days later, Sebastian goes back to Medellin

where he visits his father's grave for the first time

We had been trying to make the meeting between Sebastian

and Galan's and Lara's children happen for four years.

Now that it had happened,

we understood reconciliation was only the first step

to start something bigger.

What happened to me

during the last months of 2008,

to me, it's been the most special moment of my life,

the most joyful one.

It gave me freedom, and it lifted a weight off my shoulders.

Every teenager, every young person wants to be Pablo Escobar ,

but they still don't know very well why

and what this person did.

They don't know the story, but they want to be Pablo.

l think if they knew it,

no one would dare repeat it.

Why am l not a drug trafficer?

Because l was with my father ,

hiding next to him,

surrounded by millions of dollars,

and we were starving

because we had a police post in front of the house

where we'd been hiding for a week, and we ran out of food.

That's when l understood

that the money from drug trafficking is absolutely worth less.

If you can't use it to buy a pound of rice,

then it was only fuel to heat the chimney.

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