Pablo Escobar

When this all came to a violent end in the year 1993, Escobar had concern for his family’s well being and made two major mistakes. Officers then stormed in with gunshots, Escobar returned fire and then tried going through a second story window where he was shot with machine gun bullets. Tracing the calls they formed a seventeen-block search, where they cut off communication lines and surrounded the building. With the surrender of Escobar, President Gaviria was able to claim a political victory. Two Bureau of Prisons guards had been wounded.

There had always been restrictions on what American military forces were allowed to do in Colombia. After Escobar had served a year in La Catedral prison President Gaviria decided to move the drug outlaw Pablo Escobar to a new prison on a military base in Bogota. During this time it forced a constitutional crisis in Colombia. He would surrender only under a few circumstances, which include not being able to extradited to the United States to stand trial, and he building his own prison that fit his needs. Escobar lived like a king where he threw parties with gourmet food and booze, beautiful women as well.

It had taken more than two years, hundreds of lives, and hundreds of millions of dollars, much of it from U. Despite Colombian constitutional barriers and widespread public to foreign troops on their soil, especially American troops, Gaviria said, “he would welcome any and all that could help fine Escobar. The scene at La Cathedral left one soldier killed in the raid. He called his wife to have her stay in Bogota, but the call was traced. The national police, who had lost hundreds of officers to Escobar’s assassins, were forbidden to come within 12 miles of the prison.