![]() They used my father’s drugs to fight their war against communism in Central America in the early 1980s. What was the role of the CIA in the narco business? ![]() Because money can easily change your way of thinking. Thanks to the Cali cartel that took all our money, I am the man I am. It was the only honest way to start from scratch. What was it like to give up all that wealth? Imagine having your own Jurassic Park in your backyard. Zoos inside your home and choppers that ferried hamburgers. You grew up with a surreal amount of wealth. Because, that was the only thing that could set us free. And, perhaps, he committed suicide as the biggest act of love for his family. He realised that as hostages of our own government, the only way out for us-as his family-was his death. If you do that, you are dead.” I tried to protect him. He allowed his enemies to find him when he intentionally broke his golden rule: “Do not ever touch the phone. You believe that he killed himself to save your family. ![]() The official version is that Escobar was shot. It is hard to stay neutral with a father like him. I was raised in a culture that says: You should honour your father and your mother. I cannot hate anyone, that is not the man I chose to be. I faced him many times and asked him to stop violence, but he never listened. He gave me my own life and raised me with love. Once you understood who your father was, did you hate him? Did you resent him after his death? I am just trying to make the world aware of the consequences of this violence sponsored by the war on drugs. And, some also considered him the Da Vinci of crime. My father is now considered the “Elvis” of the drug business, thanks to Netflix. This is a narcoterrorist we are talking about. Is it not surreal that there are Escobar tattoos, beer bottles and T-shirts. We should all thank my father for showing us the path we should not take. nobody will dare repeat his story if they read my book. When people watch Narcos, they want to become like my father. No wonder why I received thousands of messages from all over the world from young kids who now dream to be like him someday. But you were concerned about the fact that it glorified your father. The Netflix series Narcos featured your father’s story. Justice should be done, but not always necessarily provide tools to repair the souls of those who suffered. About finding a way to stop the pain and hate. Forgiving is not about forgetting things. I have already experienced that from more than 100 families who were victims of my father’s actions. Who else is there to ask for forgiveness? I believe in forgiving. I took moral responsibility for his sins and crimes. No apology is enough as my father had inflicted so much pain to those families. You have reached out to the families and relatives of those your father killed. So, I can say that love saved me from being a bad man as my father was. I received a lot of love from my mother, too. And, at the same time, he did not give me a good example outside home. How did a son grow up sane with that sort of knowledge? You believe that your father ordered the assassination of 2,000 people. So, the only option to escape from violence was a legal change of identity. We asked the help of the Vatican, the International Red Cross, the United Nations, and nobody helped us. The airlines did not sell us airplane tickets. But, the whole world did not want to give us a small place on earth to live. Why? Did the long shadow of being your father’s son get too much for you? You changed your name from Juan Pablo Escobar to Sebastián Marroquín. He got featured in a documentary Sins of My Father in 2009, and authored the book, Pablo Escobar: My Father, in 2014. Marroquín studied industrial design and became an architect. He, along with his family, moved to Argentina in 1994, after his father’s death. Juan Pablo Escobar, now known as Sebastián Marroquín, is the son of slain Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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