After a bombing, they demolish the Mnaco building, owned by Pablo Escobar

MEDELLN, Colombia.- The building of Mnaco, where lived the formidable leader of Pablo Escobar of Medellín It was demolished in the middle of this Friday, thus closing a painful episode in the history of Colombia.

In the square occupied by the building, in the area of ​​El Poblado, a park will be built in memory of the victims of narco-terrorism with which Escobar tried to subdue society and the Colombian state in the 80s and 90s of the last century.

Dozens of experts have been working for several days preparing for the implosion of the eight-story building that was the residence of Escobar and his family. Since his death on 2 November 1993, he has been attracting tourists to the "narcotours".

We have a historic debt to our victimswith the past More than the demolition of a structure that is now in ruins and has been for many years (…), the important thing here is to talk about the construction of memory, said the mayor of the city, Federico Gutirrez.

The building, which is now in ruins, was the residence of the chief of the drug cartel in Medellín and the target of a car bomb attack committed in 1988 by the rivals of the Cali cartel, in the US. one of the bloodiest episodes of the city.

President Ivn Duque was for several minutes near the square Before going to Ccuta for the Venezuela Aid Live concert, he said that implosion meant that the story would not be written according to the perpetrators, but rather by acknowledging the victims.

According to the authorities, the demolition is a tribute to the more than 520 policemen who killed the Medelln cartel. Escobar was a criminal who almost finished the country and all that needs to be done so that the new generations have another vision and know that crime does not pay.