yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Pablo Escobar Goes to War | Narco Wars


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

INTERVIEWER: You learned English in Colombia or in the United States or--

Watching TV, man.

INTERVIEWER: Watching TV?

Watching TV, hiding all the time. My name is Sebastián Marroquín, formerly Juan Pablo Escobar. I am the son of Pablo Escobar. I grew up living a life full of money, full of power. My father at the time, he was perhaps one of the richest men in Colombia. I realized very early that he was a bandit because he told me when I was seven years old. So you can imagine, being a child, perhaps you know the meaning of the word bandit. But you don't realize how huge the organization was that my father was in charge of.

REPORTER: Pablo Escobar has been identified by American authorities as Colombia's leading exporter of cocaine. The Escobar family has reportedly amassed nearly $2 billion smuggling 1,100 pounds of refined cocaine into the United States every month.

SEBASTIÁN MARROQUÍN: We were living in a life that we felt power was endless.

EXPERT: The Medellín Cartel was very rough, very vindictive. The Cali people, they looked at it more as a business to expand.

[speaking in Spanish]

SEBASTIÁN MARROQUÍN: The Cali cartel took control of all the Medellín cartel routes in New York. And that made my father very upset.

MARÍA ISABEL SANTOS: [speaking in Spanish]

SEBASTIÁN MARROQUÍN: The Mónaco building was our family home. We used to live there. But I started to be so aware of the consequences of my father's actions because I was forced to hide more than he. He was more free than I was in that time.

[siren]

[speaking in Spanish]

[boom]

[crash]

[sirens]

MARÍA ISABEL SANTOS: [speaking in Spanish]

REPORTER: [speaking in Spanish] And my father became even more crazy than ever because he felt for one hour that all of his family were dead.

[speaking in Spanish]

More Articles

View All
Bill Nye The Science Guy's Origin Story | StarTalk
We’re featuring my interview with science communicator extraordinaire Bill Nye, and I asked how his interest in comedy and his background in engineering coalesced into the identity of the Science Guy. Let’s check it out. It’s a wonderful thing to get peo…
How can a text have two or more main ideas? | Reading | Khan Academy
Hello readers. Today, I want to begin with a brief aside about physics. Unless you’re like a quantum particle or something, it’s not possible to be in two places at once. Nor is it possible to travel in two directions at once. Right? If I’m on a train fro…
Tesla : The Ponzi Factor
When we think about the stock market, we think about money, the finance industry, businesses, and making money from investing in successful businesses. The belief is investing in successful businesses is what leads to investment profits, and there’s a dir…
Why Tik Tokers Are BROKE
9.2 million followers, 70 million likes, 100 million plus, right? It’s just how much I’ve made. This is KSI, massive content creator, huge following, partially owns Prime, which just became the UFC’s official drink, among other things. Despite its massive…
Why I'm Finally Spending Money
What’s up you guys? It’s Graham here. So, a little over a year ago, I made a video breaking down exactly how much money I spend every month, where it all goes, and my philosophy is when it comes to saving money, investing, and trying to get the best value…
Elliot Choy asks Ray Dalio about his early goals
Was was that first step for you? Do you recall kind of some of your early goals? Was it simply to find some level of success, some level of security? Do you remember what those first steps were for you? Well, it was, um, it was more a passion, you know? …