Escobar sought to turn himself into the government after his escape under new terms, but no agreement was finalized before he was killed by the special force of police officers. As can only be expected from an operation as large-scale and sensational as the capture of Pablo Escobar, there is more than one version of events doing the rounds. Keeping that sensational story current are Steve Murphy and Javier Peña, the two ex-DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) operatives who led the manhunt for the drug lord - and who will be 'retelling history' at their talk 'Capturing Pablo' in Dubai next week. The government planned to move Escobar to a real prison but, hearing of this, the drug lord escaped and went on the run.

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His life has also served as inspiration for or has been dramatized widely in film, television, and in music. Soon, he graduated to stealing cars and sanding down tombstones from the local cemetery to resell them. He remembers the fear nearly every Medellín resident felt when stepping outside in a city of shootings and car bombs.Escobar also entered politics in the 1980s and participated in and supported the formation of the Liberal Party of Colombia. Before he gave himself up, the extradition of Colombian citizens to the United States had been prohibited by the newly approved Colombian Constitution of 1991. While he smoked a cigar, he explained to Chino that he wanted photos of a garbage dump and other areas of the city. Steve Murphy/ Texas Monthly Javier Peña at the Colombian National Police Headquarters following a seizure of some of Pablo Escobar’s money, gold, and a .

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Accounts of Escobar's continued criminal activities while in prison began to surface in the media, which prompted the government to attempt to move him to a more conventional jail on 22 July 1992. His first job was to photograph the hippos, zebras, giraffes and birds Escobar had brought in from Africa.This culminated in the assassination of three presidential candidates in a single presidential election campaign. Furthermore, because Escobar had corrupted so many officers in the Colombian police and military, Peña was never sure who he could trust.

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He also claims his father taught him to commit suicide by a gunshot to the right ear - so they could avoid torture at the hands of the police or their enemies. Escobar was also involved in philanthropy in Colombia and paid handsomely for the staff of his cocaine lab.The 2016 album The Life of Pablo by American rapper Kanye West was named after the three Pablos who inspired and represented some part of the album, with one of them being Pablo Escobar. He soon couldn’t understand why everyone seemed disappointed by Escobar’s surrender — until he discovered the type of prison that Escobar had in mind for himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.