01x04 - Escobar's Empire

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Man: Hooah!

All: Hooah!

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Reporter (over tv):

Shake this square world

and blast off for kicksville!

Nixon: Public enemy

number one is drug abuse.

Nancy: Just say no.

Reagan: Halting the drug

problem in america is like

Carrying water in a sieve.

Bush: Take my word for it,

this scourge will stop!

Reporter 2 (over tv): There's

now an understanding that the

w*r on drugs was

an abject failure!

Trump: We will build a wall.

Marroquin: My name

is sebastián marroquin.

I am the son of pablo escobar.

He raised me with a

lot of human values,

With respect for life.

I grew up in a

family surrounded by love.

Love made the

difference in my life.

My father was perhaps one of

the richest men in colombia,

But we shouldn't forget how much

blood was behind that money.

Reporter (over tv):

This all-american

group includes a teacher,

A nurse, a recording

engineer and a photographer.

Ten years ago, they might have

stuck to smoking marijuana,

But now they pass around

the lines on the mirror.

Man (over tv): Save

some for the rest of us!

Mcdermott: His structure

is based on two foundations.

One is extreme violence

and the other is business

And logistical organization.

His capacity for violence,

his ambition and

His smarts single him out.

And no one actually ever

challenges escobar's leadership.

Mcdermott: Planes would leave

the jungle drug laboratories

Laden with cocaine and

begin to fly northwards.

And hopscotch

across the caribbean

before it hit us shores.

Turner: And that was all

coming in through miami.

So miami was a

distribution point.

And miami became the

hotbed of corruption,

Of the cartels.

Reporter (over tv):

So this is why police in

South florida are worried.

They are seeing more and more

colombian traffickers bring

Their incredible

brand of violence here.

We have had

kidnappings and machine-g*n

murders in broad daylight,

And police worry the

violence will spread,

If steps are not

taken to stop it.

Wetli (over tv): We have to

start taking the w*r on drugs

Very seriously.

If we don't, we're

going to have something

like a domestic vietnam.

We're either gonna fight the

w*r and win it or we're just

Gonna give up.

Turner: United states

is a patient.

It's got a severe cut,

it's bleeding to death.

Policeman (over tv):

Get down! Police!

Turner: So you gotta

stop the bleeding in miami.

(screaming)

Turner: Reagan came

into the white house,

He looked at the drug

issue as a detriment.

He sort of took the view of

"I'm the sheriff,

it's my responsibility.

I'm gonna do

what I need to do."

Reagan (over tv): You wanted

law and order in this town,

You've got it!

I'll sh**t the first man

that starts for those steps!

Man (over tv): Come on!

Turner: My name is

carlton e. Turner.

I was president reagan's

policy adviser from

1981 to January 1987.

Ronald reagan was

against drugs, period.

Reagan (over tv): Thank you!

We intend to do

what is necessary,

To end the drug menace

and cr*pple organized crime.

We live at a turning point.

We can and will

make a difference.

Reporter (over tv): Miami

is the source that supplies

Two-thirds of america's

drug habit, and the target in

Mr. Reagan's crusade to get

america to kick the habit.

Turner: Only way you going

to ever stop it is attack.

And it became a w*r on drugs.

Reporter (over tv):

It really is a w*r, too.

There's a big air force radar

balloon checking on anybody

Trying to run

the drug blockade.

The army's contributed a

couple of helicopters to

Help enforce it.

The navy's sent

some radar plains,

And the coastguard

has a fleet on patrol

In the florida straits,

whilst 300 drug agents going

Over south florida

with a fine tooth comb.

Bush (over tv):

5,100 pounds of cocaine,

165 vessels seized, $5 billion

in street value of drugs.

I mean there has

been a major impact.

Marroquin: My father

was called by the

Vice president of colombia,

the da vinci of crime.

Of course he was a

very intelligent man.

The way he show his own

intelligence was finding the

Simplest solutions for the

most complicated problems.

He was always imagine how

the enemy was going to behave.

Always pushing

things to the limits.

Reporter (over tv): He's known

as pineapple face because of the

Smallpox scars he's

carried since childhood.

He's a buddhist,

a multi-millionaire,

In spite of his

small army salary,

And a collector

of old masters.

Brownfield: The

government of panama,

Which was controlled by

general manuel noriega,

Had an unfortunate tendency

to accept basically any sort of

Business relationship

with any entity that could,

In fact, put

revenue into his pockets.

Panama was very useful

for moving up by sea,

For moving by air, or if

you're pushing it up overland,

You can't get from

colombia to north america

Without going through panama.

Escobar reached out,

and they establish a deal.

Brownfield: That was how

noriega became, if you will,

A key in the, in the western

hemisphere drug trafficking

Routes and industry.

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Marroquin: My father,

he had so much money.

We had our own jurassic park,

even before spielberg.

He imported, like, four hippos.

And now there are more

than 40 in, in our country.

Marroquin: My father, he used

to tell me he was willing to

Use the drug trafficking

business in favor of the

Poorest people in colombia.

Reporter (over tv):

Medellín is a boom town.

Here the drug lords make

most of their investments.

New construction,

office buildings,

Apartment complexes,

shopping malls.

Marroquin: My

father used to say,

"I prefer to die in

colombia than to live in a

cell in the united states."

Turner: Our

government was pushing the

Colombian government to do

more about interdicting and

About the control of narcotics.

We were looking for people that

had basically a commitment.

Turner: Lara bonilla was a

minister of justice in colombia,

Who basically took it

to them straight on,

He didn't back down at all.

He knew what had happened

to the other people that

Opposed pablo escobar,

but he did it anyway.

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Reporter (over tv): It

took satellite surveillance to

Tell the colombian government

that the dense amazon rainforest

Was playing host to the

world's biggest cocaine factory.

The jungle is scarred with the

new airstrip and buildings of

What the drug barons

call tranquilandia.

Reporter (over tv):

When the troops arrived,

They found a

self-contained town,

Built by

colombia's cocaine mafia,

And capable of producing several

tons of the drug each week.

The drug processors left in

such haste that a light plane

Was left abandoned,

camouflaged between the trees,

A sign of the

growing sophistication

of the drugs industry.

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Turner: Lara bonilla

was a crusader,

And he didn't back down.

And they knew that the only

way to stop him was to k*ll him.

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(g*nshots)

Turner: I lost a friend.

We began to realize,

in the us, and in colombia,

That the cartels had

amassed tremendous power.

Think about

someone assassinating the

Attorney-general

of the united states,

It just doesn't happen.

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Reporter (over tv): Police and

army units found a new vigor

For a series of

country-wide raids,

And hundreds were arrested.

Most of them were

relatively small-timers.

The barons of the cocaine

traffic had gone to ground.

Reporter (over tv):

M-19 carried out its most

Spectacular operation in 1980,

when it seized the

Dominican embassy in bogota,

and held hostage an

Army of foreign diplomats.

Reporter (over tv):

Ana cecilia cartagena was

A medellín judge, who worked

hard to imprison drug dealers.

For that, she was m*rder*d,

shot in the head as she drove

Up to this intersection

after leaving a workshop,

Sponsored by the united states

drug enforcement administration.

(g*nshots)

(g*nshots)

(g*nshots)

Quiñones (over tv):

Three, two, one.

This morning,

the judicial palace

is still smoldering,

But there is still no word

on how many guerrillas or

Hostages are dead or alive.

The standoff continues.

John quiñones,

abc news, bogotá.

(g*nshots and explosions)

Man: My uncle told him,

"you piece of garbage.

One of us has to die."

Man 2: Every person

he wanted to k*ll, he k*lled.

Reporter (over tv): In the

city of medellín yesterday,

Four powerful bombs were sent.

Reporter 2 (over tv):

This is the terror.

A ruthless campaign

of car bombs, grenades,

Hit squad assassinations.

Man 3: What he did to

the colombian people,

He was behind

thousands of deaths.