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Here are some current photos of the rooftop where Pablo Escobar was killed.
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Wonder if they used that as the troop's Christmas card. That's fucked and so was Pablo, his life makes for a hell of a story though.
His death was well worth celebrating
Wonder if they used that as the troop's Christmas card. That's fucked and so was Pablo, his life makes for a hell of a story though.
Members of Colonel Martinez's Search Bloc celebrate over Pablo's body on December 2, 1993, in a photograph taken by DEA agent Steve Murphy. Pablo's death ended a fifteen-month effort that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. It was the deathblow to the Medellin cartel.
Well, the Search Bloc (the guys in the photo) had seen so many of their friends and family kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Escobar's sicarios that it was a deeply personal mission for them to nail the bastard, so highly understandable they wanted to celebrate over the corpse of the scumbag. Their leader, Col. Martinez had to suffer death threats against himself and his entire family, so imagine the relief when they finally got him. How many thousands of people were killed on Pablo's orders? There is a superb book about Escobar called Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden. That photo appears in the book with this caption: