The controversial comment of a mayor of Colombia on Pablo Escobar

Bucaramanga mayor Rodolfo Hernández Suárez has been the subject of a new "false start" when he quoted bloodthirsty drug trafficker Pablo Escobar Compare your coca trade with the export model that Colombia should have. This is not the first time the local president has made reference to the late leader of the Medellin cartel.

In an interview with journalist Vicky Dávila during her lunch program in The w On the radio, the president spoke of the need to encourage production in the department of Santander, whose capital is Bucaramanga. According to Hernández, the country should strive to transform, package and transport products, not just produce them, to be present throughout the consumption chain.

"To become rich, you have to have this whole chain which, at all stages, produces public services"said the mayor at the station. It was at that time that he used the example of Escobar's economic model, become rich in drug trafficking, to indicate what it was appropriate to do.

"I'm going to make a real comparison, it's probably not the best: they've never seen Pablo Escobar export coca leaf, he exported cocaine hydrochloride and throughout the process, look where he came from. "said Hernandez.

Before the statement, the reporter called out, "I think, mayor, that's why they will trap him." Hernandez replied: "It does not matter, I've been nailed (…) What I want to tell you is that you have to produce, transform, pack, transport and carry circuits of consumption."

However The reporter reiterated that the best example was not Pablo Escobar, whom he described as "barbaric and miserable". And it is that the deceased capo was the richest person in the country who trafficked cocaine, especially in the United States, and unleashed the worst urban war lived in Colombia against the state, in protest against the extradition treaty, which killed nearly 47,000 people.

Hernández Suárez had already been the target of other controversies for his scandalous comments. Last year, for example, a judge ordered him to retract after referring to the ex-House representative, Fredy Anaya, of "Pablo Escobar de Bucaramanga", when he had denounced alleged acts of corruption.

This year, we remember other sentences, including one about Venezuelan women who emigrated to the country, which he calls "the factory of poor children". And another in which he criticized the firefighters' work in the city, saying that those who worked at the station were "big and full-bodied, who do not ride on a stool".