Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord

HE WHO DOESN'T KNOW HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT IT

PABLO ESCOBAR, THE LORD OF EVIL

Don Pablo, I apologize for my men and for myself,

but please understand, the situation is very difficult.

So, sorry for the confusion. Have a good day.

No problem.

Let's go.

- So, Mole? How is it going? - It's done.

- Ready? - Of course.

Hey, Chili really taught you a lot, didn't he?

What's up, guys? How is that dynamite going?

It's ready, boss.

You know what?

Fill that other barrel and leave it, we're going to blow that shit up.

- The man is coming or what? - Of course, man.

Why do you think we are partners? This guy is a champion.

- Let's wait then. - Gonzalo, what happened to your head?

- What do you mean? - You are kind of bald, aren't you?

Get off my back! Bald my ass!

Hi, man!

- He is coming with the money in his hand! - How was it, son? Okay?

- I told you, brother. - Straight from his pocket.

- How'd it go, man? - All is well.

- Hey, Oscar brother. - Hey, man.

- How nice! - Look at this!

Smell it, smell it!

I know how it smells. I've been doing this shit for 20 years, brother.

- And look at this. It's full. - Very good, brother.

- Transatlantic Hotel, please. - Yes, sir. Suite 1803, right?

One moment, sir.

Go in, please.

What's up, sir?

Pablo, you are putting me in a compromising situation.

If somebody sees me here, I'll be in real trouble!

Stop complaining!

Come, let me hug my main political adviser!

Listen, Pablo. I think that from now on, we should be just acquaintances.

Friends, the best friends.

- Hello, Mr. Santorini. - How are you, sir?

Scotch?

- All right. - On the rocks, right?

But I must go back to Bogotá today.

Well, since we are all here, let's cut to the chase.

- Go ahead, talk. - All right... Next August the 7th,

Cesar Gaviria will take over as new the president of this country.

That will change things for you.

What happened

with the voting to change the Constitution? How is that going?

The people massively backed this position through the ballot boxes.

We only have to wait that Gaviria takes over,

calls for elections and assign the persons

that will be in charge of changing the Constitution.

- Does it mean that's a fact? - That means that the Colombian people

backed the change of the National Constitution.

Of course the Supreme Court has to approve it,

but I'm sure they will. I guarantee it.

Well...

... let's wait until those who will be in charge of voting on that decision meet.

We will then start to work and reject any possibility

to extradite Colombians to the United States.

I want to warn you and ask you

to please do not wander around the streets serving as targets

and going to where you have not been invited.

Things out are going to become very difficult. Quite tough!

Pablo...

... a very important postwar writer used to say

that hate is worse than a drug addict's passion.

It is neither satisfied nor defeated,

- and frankly, this bomb issue is-- - You know what is it, Santo?

That I am an addict to hate, and we aren't talking about little bombs,

we are talking about big bombs,

and with big bombs we're going to say goodbye to President Vargas,

with big bombs we are going to welcome the new puppet

that will replace him, Mr. Cesar Gaviria.

You better know, once and for all, with whom you'll be playing in the field.

No Pablo, let's don't complicate things.

It's not a matter of complicating anything,

but making the country feel so fucking scared

and so fucking distressed

that the only way to get out of that pool of shit,

I'm going to make them swim with their mouths open,

is to sit and negotiate with me and accept all my conditions.

Pablo, I think that's perfect, but...

when are we going to start the plan we discussed?

- Yes, well, that-- - What?

What plan are we talking about?

Mr. Falcao, as a member of the oligarchy of Colombia and Medellín,

who knows the best politicians,

the wealthy, the millionaires, the media of this country

that control and interfere with everything,

is going to help us sending a list with the names of the persons

we are going to kidnap to knock down the mainstay of this society.

BOGOTÁ MAY 12, 1990

Oh my God! How dreadful!

Poor people! My God!

Do we have to die just like that?

Not just like that, Omar.

It is because a crazy lunatic

from Medellín wants to put bombs all over the city

and kill all kinds of people. What's wrong with that crazy guy?

Relax. Our mission is to record a cassette with a lot of material.

- Don't get upset now, okay? - Yes, yes, yes.

We have to show the public the horror of violence.

- Let's do it! - Give me a second.

- Shall we go? - Let's go.

All right, ready? Three, two...

Terror takes possession of the country's streets again.

Today, the turn was for the Quirigua neighborhood in Bogotá,

where a car bomb full of dynamite has just exploded.

This place was full of innocent citizens

who passed through the area without imagining that, in broad daylight,

such an explosion was going to surprise them.

I never thought about a bomb.

An earthquake came to my mind because everything fell down

and at those moments you don't hear any explosion.

I realized she was missing and it was then when I found her...

dead.

As you order, General. I'll keep you posted.

After the bomb in Bogotá, they are asking me for results.

Colonel, listen, I wanted to tell you that I feel, after all this situation,

there is something very strange going on.

What is it?

That the attempt and the bomb in Bogotá

have been blamed on someone they call "The Grandfather".

And what's so strange about it?

It is very strange because we had never heard such a name before.

There is another name they refer as to "Uncle Pepe".

Hello.

Colonel, I want to report that Pablo saved himself this time.

I mean Don Pablo, an old man that almost fell from the wheel chair

when he saw were going to knock his house door down.

I can't believe this, Colonel.

Martin, don't you think the so called "Grandfather" is Escobar?

Well, Dad, it's quite possible.

Otherwise, he can be the second in command of his organization.

I don't know.

Well, son. Let's ask the Americans

to give us the exact location this famous guy is calling from.

That's not necessary, Dad, because they are calling from a landline,

2123526.

All right then guys. Go ahead.

- Ready, the other fuse is on. - Perfect.

All we need is Miguel to show up, right?

Miguel Moreno isn't going to show up.

The man is supposed to be quite busy with his businesses in Cordoba

and doesn't have time to come to Medellín.

Those are nothing but lies he's making up.

Miguel is not coming because he knows he has to confront me.

Listen, Pablo. What you think about Fredy Perea may not be true,

and if it is so, we have no idea if Miguel knows about it.

Well, that's exactly why I asked him to come, to face me, to explain me.

- What's the damn problem with that? - Pedro, don't insist anymore.

You know that when something has gotten into Pablo's head,

nobody will ever get it out. Just like this damn Cali issue, brother.

What do you mean with the damn Cali issue? Why do insist on that?

Well, no matter how many damned problems we have now,

I don't forget we are in war with those people.

What a stubborn guy you are, Pablo!

You haven't finished a fucking fight and you start another one.

You were quite clear with me, Pedro.

Solve your problems your way, that's all right for me.

But I ask you a big favor, let me solve mine my way, please.

So? Does that mean there will be more bombs?

BOGOTÁ MAY 12, 1990

Yes, fortunately we all are well. Yes, everything is okay.

Counting the car bomb at Quirigua

and the one that has just exploded, 26 people have died so far,

including five children and 180 wounded.

My God! What an atrocity!

They don't respect anybody's life, no!

More dead people every day, more, more and more.

As my father used to say, this makes you feel pain for your homeland.

I think you better register the news at Pluto Newscast.

But we shouldn't do anything here at the magazine.

That would be giving more publicity to that man's madness.

No, we have to analyze the situation from every point of view.

We can't cover the sun with a finger.

But Ms. Diana, what do you, in addition to being a journalist

and understanding the power structure of this country,

think is going to happen with Pablo Escobar?

I don't know. I don't know.

He is frightening and intimidating the government

in order to negotiate a solution.

But we must find a way to stop that maniac.

But the President is not going to negotiate. He made that quite clear.

No, no, there's no way out, for God's sake,

Besides, Escobar knows that.

I think we'll have to wait until Cesar Gaviria takes office.

Do you think so?

Or wait for the public force to find him.

But, well, in the meantime, we have to keep reporting the news

and maybe propose a solution from the newsreel and the magazine.

I can't believe it, Aguirre.

We, the members of the national police, having to come here

to beg them to give us the address that belongs to a telephone!

They gave it to us when we found Chili, Colonel. I don't know what happens now.

Don't worry, they have to give it to us.

- Good morning. - Yes?

- Are you the numbering manager? - Yes, sir, I am.

Colonel Martin Pabón from the National Police Elite Group.