In Part 2 of our Pablo Escobar documentary series, we go deeper than the Netflix version ever dared. We go inside the formation of the Medellín Cartel — the most powerful and most violent drug trafficking organisation the world has ever seen. We follow the blood trail from the back streets of Medellín all the way to the halls of the Colombian Congress, where a cocaine kingpin sat among senators and shook the hands of men who knew exactly who he was.
This episode covers the years when Pablo Escobar stopped hiding and started ruling — through money, through fear, and through a campaign of political assassination so brazen that it shocked the entire world.

In this episode, we cover:

🔴 The murder of Fabio Restrepo — the killing that announced Escobar to the criminal world and launched the Medellín Cartel
🔴 How the cartel moved 15 tons of cocaine into the United States every single month at its peak — and made so much money that rats ate the overflow cash in storage warehouses
🔴 Escobar's impossible political rise — how a wanted drug lord got elected to the Colombian Congress and why the men around him let it happen
🔴 The assassination of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla — the moment Escobar stopped fearing the state and declared open war on it
🔴 Los Extraditables — the terror organisation Escobar built specifically to fight extradition, whose slogan was "We prefer a grave in Colombia to a cell in the United States"
🔴 The assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán — shot dead on a public stage in front of thousands of witnesses
🔴 How Escobar's cartel penetrated the Colombian police, military, judiciary, and intelligence agencies — and turned the state's own weapons against it
🔴 Virginia Vallejo — the celebrated journalist who loved Pablo Escobar, watched him order murders, and eventually had to choose between her life and the truth.

Part 1 — The Making of a Monster → [Link in description]
Part 2 — The Rise of El Patrón → You are here
Part 3 — The Fall of El Patrón → Coming soon — Follow now so you don't miss it

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