'A dad like any other,' son says of drug lord Escobar

2010-03-19T19:15:53Z

<div><p>Pablo Escobar may have been the world's top drug lord and blamed for 15,000 murders, but to his son, he was "a dad like any other" who read stories and sang him to sleep.</p><p>"When I had the chance to talk with my dad about his behavior... I felt between a rock and a hard place because I wasn't about to turn him in... it was like living with two different people," Juan Pablo Escobar said in an interview a...

Former Medellin drug trafficker Porras dies at 62

2010-03-09T13:00:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Former Medellin drug trafficker Evaristo Porras dies at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin</div><div><p>Evaristo Porras, a former high-flying Medellin cartel drug trafficker associated with Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, has died at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin.</p><p>Por...

Son of Escobar pleas for peace in Sundance film

2010-02-22T13:33:18Z

<div><p>PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - When you are a boy and your father steals money from the Monopoly board game just to beat you, you have a problem. When your father also is Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, you have a real prob...

Son of Escobar wrestling with sins of father

2010-02-22T15:49:48Z

<div><p>The anguished son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has reached out to the victims of his murderous father in a compelling documentary being screened at the Sundance Film Festival.</p><p>Over the years Sebastian Marroquin -- form...

Wizards sign Pablo Escobar _ not related

2010-02-22T16:53:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Kansas City Wizards sign Pablo Escobar _ no, not related to that one</div><div><p>Pablo Andres Escobar is joining the Kansas City Wizards. No, he's not related to the deceased drug lord.</p><p>While the 22-yea...

HBO nabs rights to Pablo Escobar documentary

2010-02-22T23:44:39Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO has picked up the U.S. television rights to the feature documentary "Sins of My Father," the inside story of notorious Colombian drug lord

Drug cartel probed for 'crimes against humanity'

2010-02-24T00:06:52Z

<div><p>Colombian officials said they may reclassify some crimes committed by the cartel led by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar as "crimes against humanity," allowing them to continue to prosecute the offenses.</p><p>Deputy prosecutor Fernando Pareja told a press conference that Escobar may have been guilty of crimes agai...

Escobar son accused in Medellin cartel crimes

2010-02-24T03:48:49Z

<div id="subtitle">Colombia's top cop: Escobar's son directly involved in drug lord's crimes</div><div><p>Colombia's police director says the son of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was directly involved in cartel business, even killings, rejecting the denials of a man whose reappearance is creating a sensation in Colombia 16 years aft...

Pablo Escobar's son apologizes in film about drug lord's crimes

2010-02-24T06:52:00Z

<div><p>BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The last phone call Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made before he was gunned down on a Medellin rooftop was to his son, and many thought Juan Pablo Escobar would follow in his father's footsteps.</p&am...

Pablo Escobar's son says sorry for father's crimes

2010-02-24T06:55:09Z

<div><p>BUENOS AIRES (Reuters Life!) - The last phone call Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made before he was gunned down on a Medellin rooftop was to his son, and many thought Juan Pablo Escobar would follow in his father's footsteps.&lt...

AP interview: Pablo Escobar's son asks forgiveness

2010-02-24T08:14:34Z

<div id="subtitle">AP interview: 15 years after Pablo Escobar's death, son comes forward, asks forgiveness</div><div><p>After notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed, the son who many thought would succeed him fled Colombia, assumed a new identity and lived a low-profile life as an architect in Sebastian Marroquin, son of Colombia's late drug lord Pablo Escobar, poses for a photo in Buenos Aires. After notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed, the son who many thought would succeed him fled Colombia, assumed a new identity and...

Bolivian national Soccer training

2009-09-02T16:50:51Z

epa01845603 Players of the Bolivian national Soccer Team Pablo Escobar (R) and Marcelo Martins (L) fight for the ball during a training session in La Paz, Bolivia, 02 September 2009, prior to the South Africa World Cup qualifiers matc...

African experts study escaped hippos in Colombia

2010-02-25T15:29:53Z

<div><p>BOGOTA (Reuters) - African zoologists are in Colombia to advise local authorities on what to do with dozens of hippos roaming around the abandoned zoo of late drug lord Pablo Escobar in the north of the country.</p><p>Colombia was shocked last month at news that o...

UNIVERSIDAD VS DEPORTIVO CALI

2009-08-14T06:55:46Z

Chile's Universidad soccer player Felipe Seymour (L) fights for the ball with Pablo Escobar (R), from Colombia's Deportivo Cali, during their South American Cup soccer match at National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, 04 August 2009...

10th New York International Latino Film Festival - "La Mission" - Party

2009-07-28T23:15:57Z

NEW YORK - JULY 28: Recording artist Pablo Escobar Jr. attends an after party for "La Mission" during the 10th New York International Latino Film Festival at The Imperial July 28, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

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Hunt called off for drug lord's hippo

2010-02-26T08:40:20Z

<div><p>BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia has called off the hunt to kill a drug lord's escaped hippo and will instead try to relocate the beast after its mate was shot dead by order of the government, sparking outrage from animal rights groups.</p><p>The giant animals were imported from Africa<...

Wanted: Late Colombian drug lord's escaped hippos

2010-02-26T10:54:01Z

<div id="subtitle">Hippo hunt: One of Colombia's biggest fugitives _ literally _ felled by bounty hunters</div><div><p>One fugitive hippo down, two to go.</p><p>Colombian bounty hunters with orders to kill are seeking the two remaining hippopotamuses that escaped from the famous menagerie of fallen Colombian drug baron Reuters) - A hippopotamus that escaped three years ago from a zoo built by the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has been spotted living in the wild near the Magdalena river, according to a local magazine.</p><p>Preferring the wetlands o...

Tales for tourists in ex-Colombian druglord's zoo

2010-02-26T15:14:13Z

<div><p>African animals bought with the spoils of one of the world's most infamous drug traffickers are these days on show for thousands of tourists in a Colombian ecopark.</p><p>Hacienda Napoles, a 1,800-hectare (seven-square-mile) property bought in 1978 by Pablo Escobar -- the then head of the Medellin drug cartel -- still lay in rui...

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