Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar

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Virginia Vallejo. Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar

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Virginia Vallejo was the most important Colombian radio anchorwoman and television presenter in the late 1970s and ’80s. In 1982, she met Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellín Cartel. In 1983, they began a romantic relationship that ended in 1987, six years before his death.

In July 2006, she offered her testimony against a former justice minister on trial for conspiring with Escobar in the assassination of a presidential candidate. That same month, the DEA took her out of Colombia, on a special flight to save her life, so she could testify in other leading criminal cases.

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“That’s why they stay so happy, and why they don’t attack or get violent.”

At some point during the excursion we realize that the Brazilian girls have vanished through the art and craft of “escorts”—the name given in Colombia to armed bodyguards. We notice that Ángela now occupies the place of honor next to our host, who looks more dashing than all of us put together. Aníbal is happy, too, because he plans to offer Escobar helicopters manufactured by his friend Count Agusta, and also because Escobar has just commented that our friend is the most beautiful creature he’s seen in a long time.

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