Pablo Escobar's Story 3: Narcos Fall by Attwood Shaun

Author:Attwood, Shaun [Attwood, Shaun]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gadfly Press
Published: 2020-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Slaughtering Friends

With his cash flow damaged by the war, Pablo considered kidnapping the billionaire Julio Mario Santo Domingo, one of the wealthiest people in the world.

“That might be hard,” Popeye said. “That man spends his time in New York, boss.”

“That’s no problem,” Pablo said. “We pick him up, put him in a cocaine hideaway in Queens and make them send the money here to a town on the outskirts of Medellín.” Although he had thought through every detail, Pablo was distracted by a dispute among his men outside of the prison.

A friend of Pablo and senior figure in the Medellín Cartel, Fernando Galeano, had paid Big Gun to assassinate Jorge Mico. Although Pablo had once got along with Mico, most people now despised him. Every year, he had won the competition of the Horsemen’s Association by telling the director, “Either my horse wins or you die.” After he brought a horse with testicular implants, the director refused his entry and was killed. After Mico attempted to extort money from the Galeanos, Big Gun arrived at his farm and requested to see his horses. While Mico approached a feeding lot, a bullet entered his skull, all done with Pablo’s consent.

Big Gun’s paranoia led him to kill several men in El Mugre’s gang. “They are giving me away in the Brigade, boss,” he told Pablo, who, fearing an internal war, started an investigation. From El Mugre, he learned that Big Gun’s wife had been denouncing him, and Big Gun had not killed her because she was the mother of his children.

Pablo’s one-year anniversary of incarceration happened on June 19, 1992. Some writers have claimed that he went to watch a soccer game at Envigado Fútbol Club, but that’s untrue. “Of course he could leave,” Popeye said years later. “Not only did he not leave, but he forbade everyone to do so: ‘If you got caught in a checkpoint, then you would leave me hanging by the balls,’ Pablo used to say.”

Bomb plots from Cali were Pablo’s main concern; secondly, he worried about the loyalty of the other bosses, including the Ochoas, Moncadas and Galeanos. He claimed that his imprisonment was a sacrifice for the good of them all – for had he not single-handedly got rid of extradition? Due to the benefits they were receiving, his associates were expected to compensate him by paying a monthly tax of $250,000. In prison, he was tuned into everything going on outside thanks to his extensive communications network. Those who tried to cheat him out of the tax or were perceived to have swindled him in any way were dealt with harshly.

Fernando Galeano and Kiko Moncada ran two of the biggest Medellín Cartel trafficking groups that Pablo taxed. They were smuggling cocaine into America via a route that Pablo had established through Mexico. In early 1992, Fernando had been told at the Cathedral: “The successful routes are owed to me.”

Pablo’s relationship with Kiko had begun with him building secret compartments in cars for El Patrón.

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