Pablo Escobar was one of the most powerful men in the world in the 1980s. Through terror and a network of corruption, he came to have almost total control over the police, the army and much of the Colombian government while operating a gigantic international cocaine trafficking network. In the late 1980s, after a series of savage attacks involving the aircraft shootdown, bounties for killing police and bombings of government offices in broad daylight, the government of César Gaviria negotiated with the capo his surrender in exchange for a series of concessions such as operating -as if it were a personal palace- the prison of his confinement: the site called "La Catedral" in his native Envigado.

This podcast in Spanish and English narrates, based on tapes of telephone espionage of the time, the convulsive months between Escobar's surrender, escape and murder.

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