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Marroquín, Sebastián.
Subjects
Escobar, Pablo.
Escobar, Pablo -- Family.
Marroquín, Sebastián -- Childhood and youth.
Drug dealers -- Colombia -- Biography.
Drug traffic -- Colombia -- History -- 20th century.
Children of criminals -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Biography.
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Marroquín, Sebastián.
Escobar, Pablo.
Escobar, Pablo -- Family.
Marroquín, Sebastián -- Childhood and youth.
Drug dealers -- Colombia -- Biography.
Drug traffic -- Colombia -- History -- 20th century.
Children of criminals -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Biography.
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Pablo
Escobar
, my father /
Juan
Pablo
Escobar
; translated by Andrea Rosenberg.
by
Marroquín, Sebastián.
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Call #:
363.45092 E74m
Subjects
Escobar
,
Pablo
.
Escobar
,
Pablo
-- Family.
Marroquín, Sebastián -- Childhood and youth.
Drug dealers -- Colombia -- Biography.
Drug traffic -- Colombia -- History -- 20th century.
Children of criminals -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781250104625 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Pablo
Escobar
, mi padre. English English.
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Description:
353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Author's birth name was
Juan
Pablo
Escobar
. His name is now
Juan
Sebastián Marroquín.
Contents:
Betrayal -- Where did the money go? -- My father's origins -- The Renault Coke -- Papá Narco -- Excess -- Nápoles: dreams and nightmares -- MAS mayhem -- Politics: his biggest mistake -- Better a grave in Colombia -- Barbarity -- Tales from La Catedral -- Worry when I tie my sneakers -- Peace with the cartels -- Epilogue: Two decades in exile.
Summary:
More than two decades after the manhunt finally caught up with the king of cocaine,
Pablo
Escobar
' son tells the story of his father - a man capable of committing the most extreme acts of cruelty while simultaneously loving his family. A shocking look at the consequences of violence and the overwhelming need for peace and forgiveness.
Pablo
Emilio
Escobar
(1949 -1993) was a Colombian drug lord and trafficker, the leader of the Medellín cartel which for a time supplied an estimated 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States. For a while, he was also one of the 10 richest men in the world. His son,
Juan
Pablo
Escobar
(his name is now
Juan
Sebastián Marroquín) an architect, lecturer, drug policy reform advocate, and writer. He was the subject of the documentary Sins of My Father and lives in Argentina.
Genre:
True crime.
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