The Mind‘s Eye show

The Killing of Pablo Escobar

11.14.2019 - By [email protected] (Brian Turnof)Play

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Legendary DEA agents Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña, portrayed in the Netflix show Narcos, tells the real story of how they helped end the reign of Pablo Escobar. One of the world’s most powerful drug traffickers in Pablo Escobar was supposedly controlled Eighty percent of the world’s cocaine in the late 1980s and ’early 90s. We're getting down and dirty with the two men who were on the front lines fighting that fight. Steve and Javier will tell us about their battles being in the cross hairs of Escobar’s army of sicarios—small-time teenage crooks who idolized him and helped turned Columbia into a war zone. They mercilessly murdered thousands of peopl—competitors, police, politicians, judges, newspaper editors, innocent civilians.

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