Monthly Archives: January 2018
Almost as soon as Colonel Hugo Martínez’ arrived, the atmosphere at the school changed. He took immediate steps to get the Search Bloc out of the bull pen and into the game. He welcomed the Americans sent to the Carlos Holguin school and readily incorporated us into the operation. An important part of that operation included the use of informants (Human Intel). Some had already been documented by the national police or the DEA and were already hard at work……
When I got to Medellin, it was under siege. A siege perpetrated by a segment of its own citizens. It was literally a self-inflicted wound. Pablo targeted the disenfranchised sector of Medellin’s populace by building low-cost apartments for the homeless and handed out food and money. In short, he bought them at a price that to him had to be insignificant for what he got in return.
His self-serving generosity bought for him an ever-watchful security network that would tip…..
After Escobar’s ‘surrender’ and confinement to ‘La Catedral,’ the luxury prison he built in Envigado, Pablo handed over control of the Medellin cartel to two of his lieutenants, Fernando Galeano and Gerardo Moncada. He demanded that they collect an exorbitant tax from the members of the cartel to compensate him for the terrorist campaign he led to force the Colombian government into abolishing the extradition treaty with the United States. In the weeks leading to his escape, Pablo kidnapped, tortured…..
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