Another slept for the whole afternoon, and couldn't even be questioned," a police official stated, according to Latina magazine. The next morning, police found the guards handcuffed with little memory of what had happened. The women reportedly spiked the guards' whisky, took their keys, and let at least 26 inmates leave with weapons and ammunition. In a startling display of incompetence, guards in a small city in western Brazil allowed two women dressed as "sexy" police officers inside a prison. “We produced tons of cocaine, yet to find a gram of it was very difficult,” Escobar maintains in the interview with Greek Reporter.From seducing guards in Brazil to escaping from impenetrable fortresses in Mexico dressed in drag, prison breaks in Latin America are sometimes even more bizarre than their fictional counterparts. Escobar had informants within the highest echelons of the local police, and if need be, he could hide in an underground crypt operated by remote control, with oxygen cylinders and plenty of food.Īccording to the guide, it was almost impossible to find even a gram of cocaine in the city while the cartel was active in Medellin. Pablo Escobar “Hated” cocaine, “loved Greece,” brother claims in interviewĮl Indio says that whenever the army was planning an operation to arrest Pablo, he would know of the plans beforehand. El Indio explains that, during the drug smuggling years, Pablo used a communication system they called “Cali Walkie Talkie” to speak directly with pilots and give them instructions on what to do with the “merchandise” after they landed at some illegal airport. The property occupies a strategic position overlooking the Medellin airport. Pablo Escobar was killed in a rooftop shootout with police and army soldiers in Medellin on December 2, 1993, one day after his 44th birthday and five months after he had appeared on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s richest people-for the seventh time.Ī guide nicknamed El Indio (“The Indian”) that today works with the older Escobar took Greek Reporter around the house where Pablo Escobar once lived and where he celebrated his last birthday.
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