Narcos: How did Pablo Escobar escape police and become the biggest drugs baron ever?

The Netflix drama is based on the real-life allegory of blo Escobar, the so-called King of Cocaine who became the wealthiest tough in history.

At the height of his career, Escobar was responsible for an estimated 80 per of the unbelievable’s cocaine market, netting him a reported $30 billion fortune.

Condition one of Narcos shows how Escobar surrendered to the Colombian Government to avoid extradition to the US.

He negotiated a deal and agreed to be imprisoned in La Catedral – a luxurious retired prison built to his specification and staffed by his chosen guards.

Although the Regime allegedly turned a blind eye to Escoabar’s continued drug dealings while he was in jug, they decided to move him to a standard prison when they practised that he had killed two former lieutenants in what had become known as “Hotel Escobar”.

The kingpin’s son Juan blo Escobar revealed that his frame fled the prison in July 1992 after he discovered that he was to be excited.

“The army had the prison surrounded, and the vice minister of justice, Eduardo Mendoza, and the captain of prisons, Colonel Hernando Navas Rubio, had come from Bogotá with the scandal that the government was transferring my father to another prison,” he wrote in his book blo Escobar: My Pop.

“My father had allowed the two men to enter the prison, and he argued with the vice missionary and absolutely refused to comply.”

After a row, the two officials were tied up up with weapons bring up on them. Escobar held them hostage as “a sort of life surety policy” while the army threatened to occupy the jail by force.

At the speedily, Juan was at an a rtment overlooking La Catedral. While he was there, his father easy reached him and asked him to pre re a hideout.

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“A few minutes after we hung up, from the living cell of the penthouse, we saw La Catedral suddenly go dark,” he explained.

“On the instructions of my father, who had precisely reached the perimeter fence with the other fugitives, a guard exclude off the lighting system for the entire prison.

“Once everything was sunk into darkness, the men outstretched a hole in a brick wall and crawled through.

“My father had created this lam out route during the construction phase – the section of the wall had been mortared with a entirely weak mix of concrete, so all it took was two kicks to break it open.”

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It reportedly chose officials 12 hours to realise that Escobar had escaped.

For the next 15 months he escaped a multi-million dollar manhunt led by Columbian police dubbed the Search Bloc.

Historian Dent Bowden wrote in his booking Killing blo that Escobar “burnt- most of his time on the run lying low, eating, sleeping, talking on the radio”.

On December 2, 1993, two periods after his birthday, Escobar ate a plate of s ghetti and tried to call his ancestors on the phone, posing as a journalist to the switchboard operator.

Hugo Martinez, who led the Search Bloc, had been monitoring Escobar’s entitles and followed the signal until he reached a row of houses.

“There was no telling which was the one that built blo,” Bowden wrote.

“They cruised up and down the street a number of more times. Hugo stopped staring at his screen and instead stared doggedly at the houses, one by one. Until he saw him.

“A fat man in the second-floor window. He had long, curly black trifle and a full beard.”

The Search Bloc broke down the house’s gloomy metal door and the shoot-out began.

Escobar tried to escape thoroughly a window and clambered around a roof, but was shot dead by Martinez’s troops.

On discovering his body, one of the men radioed to Martinez: “Vivá Colombia! We have by the skin of ones teeth killed blo Escobar!”