Narcos and Pablo Escobar real life agents tell it how it was. Before Javier Pena signed on as a consultant to the hit Netflix TV show Narcos he made one thing very clear to the producers. Pena, a former DEA agent and veteran of the Colombian drug wars who spent five years hunting Pablo Escobar, could never countenance the drugs kingpin being presented as a champion of the people. Previous slide. Next slide. Trailer Narcos. Trailer Narcos. C6E90FE00000578-3238278-image-a-16_1442563141352.jpg' alt='Pablo Escobar Daughter' title='Pablo Escobar Daughter' />The Medellin cartel the most violent, ruthless and wealthy criminal organisation in the history of modern crime and the one man who lorded over them all Pablo Escobar. Trailer The Fortress. Play Video. Dont Play. Trailer The Fortress. Trailer The Fortress. Based on the Second Manchu invasion of Korea in 1. King Injo and his retainers sought refuge in the fortress located in Namhansanseong. Clip Tonightly. Play Video. Dont Play. 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We told them the real truth about what happened during the search for Escobar and we taught them the history. Art meets life Boyd Holbrook, Steve Murphy, Javier Pena and Pablo Pascal. Photo Eric CharbonneauNetflix. So far, there have been two series of Narcos chronicling the extraordinary rise and ignominious death of the worlds most notorious narcoterrorist. In the show, Pena is played by Pedro Pascal, while Boyd Holbrook plays Penas DEA colleague Steve Murphy. Initially, Pena had his doubts about the show but it became a breakout hit for Netflix, garnering two Golden Globe nominations. Were happy with the way it came out, says Pena. When it first came out I said no one is going to watch this and all of a sudden it was one of the best watched shows. Javier Pena and Steve Murphy in Colombia in the late 1. Pena was 3. 2 when he and Murphy were dispatched to Bogota in 1. Escobar. I didnt know who Pablo Escobar was but I was a fast learner, says Pena. Pablo Escobars son slams Narcos TV show which is based on his fathers life saying the Netflix smash hit is riddled with errors. Pablo Escobars son Sebastian. With Andrs Parra, Leonardo Acosta, Jimmy Vasquez, David Guerrero. The exploits of the notorious drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Narcos and Pablo Escobar reallife agents tell it how it was. Escobar was a professional businessman with a strategy and vision, which the current crop of Mexican drugs lords lack. Everybody loved Escobar because he taught. Pablo Escobars wife Maria Victoria Henao, son Juan Pablo and daughter Manuela Escobar paid a huge price after he was gunned down by Colombian authorities in 1993. Pablo Escobars brother has weighed in on the brutal killing of a location scout for the Netflix show Narcos in central Mexico, suggesting that the network hire. Pablo Escobars daughter Manuela Escobar asked for a unicorn and he tried to deliver. Know the fascinating stories of Manuela Escobar that will shock you. Pablo Escobars son had to come to terms with the fact that he loved his father but hated what he did. This week, his book is being published in English. Dawood Ibrahim is worlds second richest criminal ever after Pablo Escobar. Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, who is wanted in India in connection with the 1993. He was at the height of his power. He had all the money he needed he was responsible for about 8. United States. Escobar in 1. That money by some estimates more than US2. Escobar to buy the loyalty of a small army of sicarios, or assassins. He would recruit these young kids 1. Pena. They worshipped Escobar. He gave them money and that made them loyal to him. They would kill anybody at his orders. More than one thousand police fell victim to Escobars hired killers. Pena and Murphy were under constant threat throughout their five years in Colombia. My biggest fear was car bombs being in the wrong place at the wrong time, says Pena. He planted a lot of bombs outside the old police base where we lived. I remember when I first landed in Medellin the cops there said, Javier, have you got a gun I said yes. They said pull it out. We used to drive around with our guns by our seats. Escobar was finally killed on a Bogota rooftop in December 1. Who fired the fatal shot is unclear, but there is a now notorious photograph of a grinning agent Murphy crouching behind Escobars bloodied corpse. Pena was chasing up other leads during the dramatic rooftop chase, which he regrets. I wish I had been there, he says. Its a great photo. We are happy that the guy responsible for killing thousands and thousands of people is finally dead. Stephen King`S Cat`S Eye there. If you look at that picture of Escobar on the roof you have to remember this guy used to be a billionaire with hundreds of bodyguards. Towards the end he had one bodyguard, he was out of money. In the picture he is unkempt, hes barefoot he has a beard and his hair is all over the place. In a curious case of life meeting art, Pena and Murphy are in Australia for a short speaking tour called Capturing Pablo. Pena says they tell true story behind the hunt for Escobar, shorn of the dramatic liberties of the Netflix series. Obviously they took artistic licence to make it interesting, he says. And there is one particular detail Pena takes exception to. Pedros a great guy, he says, but I think I was a little bit more handsome than him. Capturing Pablo, An Evening With Javier Pena and Steve Murphy, Sydney Opera House July 1. Hamer Hall, Melbourne July 1. Who killed drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Colombian. police and military forces storm the rooftop where drug lord. Pablo Escobar was shot dead just moments earlier during an. Escobar and his. bodyguard December 2, 1. AFP. On December 2, 1. Pablo Escobar, the wealthiest drug. Medelln, Colombia, by scrambling across a. Instead, he was cut down by gunfire, and the resulting image has. WARNING Next photo is graphic. Government Photo. The other men in that image, a group of Colombian troops, have. Escobar the justice he had so long avoided. But accounts from rival traffickers and gang members. Escobars own family indicate that. El. Bloque de Bsqueda. In late 1. 98. 9, after a series of bloody humiliations dealt by. Escobar to the forces and officials of the Colombian government. President Virgilio Barco created a special police unit to. While its initial encounters with the Medelln network left the. Bloque de Bsqueda, or Search Bloc, dazed and weakened. Escobar and his associates. Assisted by US special forces, US Army intelligence, as well as. CIA and DEA, the Search Bloc pursued Escobar. According to official accounts, it was. Search Bloc that ultimately killed Escobar. Pablo Escobar with his. Maria Victoria, son Juan Pablo, and daughter Manuela. Escobar. Sins of my. On December 2, 1. Escobars birthday. Mark Bowdens Killing Pablo, he. Search. Bloc tracked the drug baron to Los Olivos neighborhood in. The Search Bloc was able to converge on the house where Pablo was. In Bowdens account, despite. ID was made only when a member of. Search Bloc spotted Escobar through a second story window. Members of the Search Bloc surrounded the home while others. Alerted, Pablo and a bodyguard stumbled. They were met with. Pablo. with one that had entered his right ear and killed him instantly. Once the gun blasts had subsided, Col. Martinez, the Search Bloc. Pablo for three bloody years but was not. Viva. Colombia the soldier said. We have just. killed Pablo Escobar. Reports emerged afterward that Escobar had gone down firing his own. In January 1. 99. Bowden, a new group had joined the. Escobar. Perseguidos por Pablo Escobar, or People. Persecuted by Pablo Escobar Los Pepes, were made up of rival. Medelln cartel boss. Previously, Pablos execution of two lieutenants broke his. And according to journalist Alma Guillermoprieto, who spoke with. Los Pepes member, the group was most likely led. Medelln cartel who, seeking vengeance. Escobars crew, members of the. Search Bloc, or anyone else who was willing to take on the. Los Pepes were, in Bowdens words, some. Pablo so blithely ignored. Many in. Colombian government were reportedly open to their. According DEA documents cited by Bowden. Cali. cartel and likely got information from the Colombian National. Police and, allegedly, from. American intelligence agents operating in the country. A court case currently underway aims to wrest more documents from the. CIA that could shed light on the suspected cooperation. American government, Colombian security forces. Los Pepes. most luxurious retreat, Napoles. Wikimedia. Los Pepes quickly mounted a campaign that rivaled that of. Escobars for sheer violence. In early 1. 99. 3 there were up to. Low level cartel managers, former state officials linked to the. Escobars attorneys anyone was fair game. Escobar retaliated with more bombings in urban areas, and Los. Pepes responded in kind, destroying numerous properties belonging. Escobar and his associates. An account from Diego Fernando Murillo, aka Don Berna a central. Los Pepes, according to. Insight Crime also indicates that members of Los Pepes. Search Bloc on its raid of Escobars hideout in. In Don Bernas telling, it was his. Rodolfo, who delivered the coup de grace, shooting. Escobar in the head with an M 1. Despite evidence that the Search Bloc was working with Los Pepes. Bowden. that Don Berna worked with both the Search Bloc and the. DEA, it hasnt been confirmed whether Don Bernas account is. A 2. 00. 3 confession by a former paramilitary member seemed to. Don Bernas claim that it was joint operation. It was an agreement that they had because Escobar was a common. Colombian Government Photo. However, paramilitary leader Fidel Castao, a cofounder of Los. Pepes, had previously denied such involvement, saying in a 1. Search. Bloc. The operation during which Escobar was killed was realized. Here, too, Bowdens account contradicts Castaos, describing. Search. Bloc as well as a DEA cable that referred to Castao as a cooperating. Pablo himself. A third actor to whom Escobars death is commonly attributed is. Escobar himself. His son, Juan Pablo Escobar Henao who has. Sebastin Marroqun has. Tobacco Mosaic Virus Petunia. Medelln. I have no doubt that the elder Escobar killed himself, Escobar. Henao said in a 2. In his book, Pablo Escobar My. Father released that same year, Escobar Henao. Pablo told his son numerous. Sig Sauer pistol, which Escobar Henao says his father. Other members of the Escobar family have posed this theory. After. an exhumation of the drug. But according to Col. Martinez, a gunshot from within three feet. Pablos skin, marks that are not. Bowden writes. men carry a picture of Pablo Escobar through the streets of. Medellin December 2, 1. Hundreds of admirers packed a memorial service for the slain. The question of who killed Pablo Escobar is likely to go. His death, like his life, left a dark stain on Colombia, and the. Colombians and Americans alike. Nobody is ever going to tell you whether Los Pepes killed. Escobar, or if it was someone else, an American soldier involved. Bowden. You. have to surmise.