Roberto Escobar, his brother, denied the claim that Mr. Velásquez had been Pablo’s right-hand man. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. He called the son a “bad man with an evil heart.”. While the city seems determined to overcome its grim past, many residents have a tolerant attitude toward the tourism it attracts. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, 57, Dies; Escobar Henchman Turned YouTube Star. Before beginning a sentence at a high-security prison in Valledupar, Mr. Velásquez said he could always some day go back to the mountains that ring Medellín, from which Mr. Escobar had operated. A former governor of Cesar is locked up on similar charges. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, a former member of the Medellín drug cartel who boasted of committing hundreds of murders on behalf of the drug lord Pablo Escobar, and who parlayed his criminal past into a popular YouTube channel, books and a movie, died on Feb. 6 in Bogotá, Colombia. Senators Alvaro Araujo and Mauricio Pimiento, both from Valledupar, are in jail on charges they used paramilitary thugs to intimidate opponents in past elections. He turned his notoriety into a form of celebrity. They said people should not forget that Mr. Velásquez had been a coldblooded assassin who expressed little remorse. The paramilitaries soon got involved in cocaine trafficking and became wealthier and more powerful than their patrons. More reason to stay indoors!
ONS estimates cases have risen 60% in a week to... Only one in FIVE Britons with tell-tale symptoms of Covid-19 are self-isolating, study reveals. “It’s not about monetizing my life story but about telling the stories, the things that happened,” Mr. Velásquez told The New York Times in 2016, referring to his videos and his second career. The Government insists there will be no hard border in... Britons value good WIFI above their PARENTS! Henry Ortiz, 24, attempted to flee a Colombian National Police officers before he gave himself up. Rishi Sunak now finds himself trying to pull off a... How quickly is Britain's Covid-19 outbreak REALLY growing? That's worse than a hangover! Before the scandals, Valledupar was best known for its yearly music festival, where tourists dance until dawn and cool off with a dip in the river that runs through town. Mr. Velásquez, who boasted of murdering hundreds of people for Pablo Escobar, in recent years had built a business around the memories of his criminal activities. A police officer shows off one of the 73 packages which contained 350 grams of cocaine and 1,800 grams of marijuana, 14 cell phones, 60 sim cards, 26 cell phone chargers, 36 bottles of liquor and 80 erectile dysfunction pills, A Colombian National Police officer breaks open a package with a concealed cell phone. Word lid van Facebook om met Jailis Diaz en anderen in contact te komen. As a younger man Sen. Araujo starred in a popular television soap opera about the roots of Vallenato music. He said Mr. Escobar was “a genius — an evil genius, but a genius anyway.”. Most have disbanded over the last four years under a peace deal promising reduced jail terms, but the government says thousands of demobilized paramilitaries have joined new cocaine and extortion gangs countrywide. VALLEDUPAR, Colombia (Reuters) - The bodyguard business is booming in this northern Colombian city plastered with posters of rival political candidates, mostly tough-looking men with hard eyes and forced smiles.
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