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Colombia demolishes Pablo Escobar fortress
Pablo Escobar's fortified home — a brutalist eight-story concrete block in one of Medellin's plushest neighborhoods — was demolished on Friday as part of an effort to change the way the drug kingpin's story is told.
The stronghold, known as the Monaco building, was razed to the ground with explosives in a show for a crowd of around 1,600 people including some families of Escobar victims.
Plans are in place to turn the property into a commemorative space to remember victims of the drug trade who were killed during the 1980s and 1990s in a bloody war with authorities.
The move is part of an initiative to put the darker side Medellin's violent past into the foreground, telling the stories of victims.
"It's not about erasing history but starting to tell it from the right side; that of the victims and the innocent heroes," Medellin's city hall tweeted.
Colombia President Ivan Duque flew to Medellin to visit the site, saying the demolition "signifies the defeat of the culture of illegality."
"It signifies that history won't be written from the perpetrator's perspective," he said before departing to the border town of Cucuta, where a benefit concert was being held to raise money for humanit
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Medellín has Pablo problems in all strata of society, not just the poor neighborhoods. The current mafia headquarters, the Oficina de Envigado, is located in the rapidly growing nearby town of Envigado, where Escobar grew up. It once operated as his debt-collection service. Now, according to InSight Crime, the Oficina is “a tangled web of service providers and subcontractors involved in everything from money laundering and the international cocaine trade to street-level drug sales and micro-extortion.” It couldn’t function without the complicity, and often the active participation, of otherwise respectable citizens. Paula Jaramillo says one goal of the Embrace Your History campaign is to shame residents who should know better into raising their ethical standards and rejecting the pretense that it’s OK to “let your kids go on sleepovers with money launderers’ kids because they have a nice country house.” But that might be a struggle in a city dotted with gleaming skyscrapers and luxurious high-rise condos that testify to the power of laundered pesos.
The first person I bumped into at the mayor’s lunch to kick off Embrace Your History was Maria Luisa Posada de Ospina, the widow of a Colombian senator and prominent cattle rancher who was kidnapped and murdered in 1989. We have
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