All language subtitles for Escobar.by.Escobar.S01E04.1080p.WEB-DL.H264-BIGDOC_eng

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- [Narrator] After the death
of Pablo Escobar in 1993,

there was constant pressure on his son,

Juan Pablo and his family.

- [Narrator] At 16, he managed
to avoid a death sentence

imposed by his father's enemies.

And Juan Pablo, the
new head of the family,

was determined to protect his clan.

He changed his identity to break free

from the curse of the Escobar name.

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- [Narrator] In 1994, the
Escobar family settled

in Buenos Aires under a new identity.

For five years, far
away from their enemies,

Juan Pablo and his
family were finally able

to enjoy a normal life.

But their new life came at a price.

They had to keep their identity secret

and be vigilant about
not being discovered.

Everything was fine until
November the 16th, 1999.

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(Juan Pablo speaks spanish)

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- [Narrator] At the end
of 1999, the Escobar's

family presence in
Argentina was uncovered.

And this revelation stemmed from betrayal.

It was from a man hired a few weeks before

by Juan Pablo's mother.

He was in charge of managing
the family's finances.

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- [Narrator] To denounce
him and put an end

to the accountant's threats,
Juan Pablo and his mother

turned to the Argentine authorities.

- [Narrator] Their desire to work

with the authorities backfired.

They denounced him for attempted fraud

but they in turn were
accused of identity theft

and money laundry.

Juan Pablo and his mother
were arrested and imprisoned

on November the 16th, 1999.

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- [Narrator] For a 22-year-old Juan Pablo,

prison was one of the worst
experiences of his life.

Cooped up in his cell, he
had a lot of time to reflect

and he made a decision.

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- [Narrator] Juan Pablo would have to wait

to marry his future wife.

After 45 days in detention, Judge Cavallo,

the man in charge of the case,

released him due to lack of evidence.

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But his mother, Victoria, stayed in jail.

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- [Narrator] In May, 2001,
after 20 months in jail,

Victoria was reunited with her son

and the rest of the family.

The trial dragged on for weeks.

The investigation took authorities
all the way to Columbia.

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- [Narrator] The accountant
was charged and convicted

with attempted extortion.

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- [Narrator] Cleared,
Juan Pablo and his family

were given Argentine nationality.

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Once again, they have new identities.

It was finally the
beginning of a new life.

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- [Narrator] On December 7th, 2002,

12 years after they
first met, 25-year-old,

Juan Pablo Escobar, AKA
Sebastián Marroquín,

married María Ángeles
Sarmiento may Andrea Ochoa.

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- [Narrator] Juan Pablo,
married and an architect,

finally had the life he wanted.

In 2000, he designed this
building in Bueno Aires

and worked on his first project.

But after the legal wrangling in 1999

and the revelation of his
identity in Argentina,

the name Escobar remained
a heavy burden to bear.

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- [Narrator] Despite the
career setbacks he faced,

Juan Pablo Escobar remained
an architect for many years.

But the curse of his name
always caught up with him.

And on the cusp of his 30th birthday,

he started a new venture.

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- [Narrator] The son of the
greatest drug lord in history

felt he had no choice.

He had to take responsibility
for his legacy.

In 2007, he decided to face
Pablo Escobar's victims

and ask them for forgiveness
in the name of his father.

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After 14 years of exile in Argentina,

he returned to Columbia
for the first time.

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- [Narrator] During the attack,

Gonzalo Rojas lost his father.

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- [Narrator] The task of
understanding, explaining

and facing the victims,
along with the horror

of the crimes committed by his father,

brought him back to his own past.

In his quest for truth,
Juan Pablo found that a man

had sworn to kill him while
he was still a teenager.

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- [Narrator] Rodrigo Lara
Bonilla, the justice minister,

was 40 years old then.

He was murdered by Byron
Velásquez Arena who was just 18.

The teenager had received
2 million Colombian pesos,

less than 500 pounds, from
Pablo Escobar for the job.

But the leader of the Medellín cartel

was never charged for the crime.

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- [Narrator] As guardian
of the Escobar story,

Juan Pablo took on many projects.

Now in his 40s, he travels
the world, spreading the word.

Since it came out in
2014, his book "My Father"

has sold 500,000 copies worldwide.

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- [Narrator] When he died in 1993,

adored by part of the
population, hated by most,

Pablo Escobar was already an icon.

And like all great villains,
within a few years,

the cocaine baron became a myth.

And an antihero for a whole generation.

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- [Narrator] Business man on the one hand

peace ambassador on the other,

Juan Pablo Escobar is quite
happy with these two roles.

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Today he's meeting Miguel Rodriguez,

son of Pablo Escobar's sworn enemy,

the former leader of the Cali Cartel.

Who'll be in an American
prison until 2036.

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The two heirs, now friends,

meet up in a neighbourhood
plagued by drug trafficking.

The residents see their
meeting as a message of hope

to find peace between the rival cartels.

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- [Narrator] Juan Emilio was born in 2014.

He is Juan Pablo Escobar's
only son and heir.

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