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    2. A priest, a drug lord, and a journalist

    2. A priest, a drug lord, and a journalist

    FromPablo Escobar: Escape from La Catedral

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    2. A priest, a drug lord, and a journalist

    FromPablo Escobar: Escape from La Catedral

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    Length:
    19 minutes
    Released:
    Sep 28, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    At the end of the 1980s, Colombia had become one of the epicenters of drug trafficking in the world. But a change of government in 1990 opened the possibility for peace and the Colombian government began telephone negotiations with Pablo Escobar for his surrender and an end to the violence that was crippling the nation. In the end, Escobar's surrender sounded like a bad joke, what happens when a narco, a priest and a journalist all board a helicopter?
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    Released:
    Sep 28, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (9)

    Pablo Escobar was one of the most powerful men in the world in the 1980s. Through terror and a network of corruption, he gained almost total control over the police, the army and much of the Colombian government while operating an international cocaine trafficking network. After a series of savage attacks which involved the downing of an aircraft, bounties for killing police and the bombing of government offices in broad daylight, the Colombian government was forced to act. Their solution was the negotiated surrender of Escobar in exchange for a series of concessions such as allowing the kingpin to choose where he would be imprisoned, a site called "La Catedral" in his native Envigado. Narrated by Univision nightly news anchor Jorge Ramos, Pablo Escobar: Escape from La Catedral is based on a mysterious set of audio tapes containing secretly recorded telephone conversations between Escobar, his cronies, and others during the months between the capo's surrender, eventual escape and death.