{"id":17784,"date":"2016-07-23T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=17784"},"modified":"2016-07-23T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T00:00:05","slug":"cartel-corner-history-the-man-who-tried-to-run-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/23\/cartel-corner-history-the-man-who-tried-to-run-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartel Corner History: The Man Who Tried To Run Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"factfile\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17785\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/escobar1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"Escobar1\" width=\"620\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four years ago today, Pablo Escobar walked out of prison, setting off a massive 18-month manhunt. In season two of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/80025172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Narcos<\/em><\/a>, the hunt is on. Watch the new trailer, and don\u2019t miss new episodes of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/80025172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Narcos<\/a><\/em>, streaming on Netflix September 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was humiliating. He practically walked out of jail and disappeared into thin air. Colombia\u2019s most wanted criminal was nowhere to be found. So on a Friday in the summer of 1992 \u2014 24 years ago today \u2014 then president C\u00e9sar Gaviria had no choice but to lower his head to the microphone and admit that the country\u2019s most wanted criminal had slipped right through the fingers of a special forces raid. According to one theory, the escape artist dressed up in a stolen military uniform, pulled a gas mask over his head and melted into the crowd of soldiers as they lit up La Catedral<em>, <\/em>his prison-mansion compound on the outskirts of Medell\u00edn<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Netflix viewers will find it hard to forget the original narco, the ultraviolent, extravagant bad guy who set the standard \u2014 Pablo Escobar, played by Brazilian actor Wagner Moura in<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/80025172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Narcos<\/a>.<\/em> Before he was gunned down atop the Spanish-tiled rooftops of a Medell\u00edn neighborhood in 1993, Escobar had tightened his ruthless grip on drug trafficking across the Americas. At the same time, he cultivated a reputation as a Robin Hood who tossed goodies to the poor even as he built a grandiose palace for himself on 5,500 acres, complete with a private zoo and an orchard. Al Pacino\u2019s character in the 1983 coke-and-violence-fueled <em>Scarface<\/em> was reportedly based in part on Escobar\u2019s bloody tale.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozy.com\/flashback\/the-man-who-tried-to-run-forever\/30185?utm_source=dd&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=07222016&amp;variable=39fe65539224826abd35ed3f9ee054f5\">OZY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-four years ago today, Pablo Escobar walked out of prison, setting off a massive 18-month manhunt. In season two of Narcos, the hunt is on. Watch the new trailer, and don\u2019t miss new episodes of Narcos, streaming on Netflix September 2. It was humiliating. He practically walked out of jail and disappeared into thin air&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2636,6896,2351,2717,13,3688],"tags":[2872,13030,13031,13032,13033,4296,2043],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}