Video: demolished the mythical bunker of Pablo Escobar in Medellín

MEDELLÍN.- Twenty-five years after the death of its powerful owner, the Monegasque building, former bastion of

Pablo Escobar

, was shot down with explosive by the Medellín mayor for the construction of a park dedicated to the victims of the drug lord, who was the master and mistress of the city.

The eight floors of the ostentatious bunker that once protected the head of the
The Medellin cartel and his family fell at eleven in the morning local time, following an event followed by thousands of people on the streets of the region.

In a fraction of a second, more than three decades of waiting have been achieved by the residents of Santa María De los Ángeles neighborhood, who have not only experienced the abandonment of the building, but have also had to see how this one would become the obligatory destination of the so-called "narcotours".

"It is not enough to erase the story, but to start telling it in the honor of our true heroes: the victims," ​​said the Mayor's Office of Medellín on his Twitter account.

In the square, almost in ruins after being a monument to luxury and extravagance, a 5,000-square-meter memorial space will be built in honor of the thousands of citizens who lost their lives during the bloodiest period of so-called "narcoterrorism". it is known the unending truce of cartels against the state in the 80s and 90s.

The initiative is part of a campaign of Medellín Town Hall,
the distressed city that Escobar has turned into a theater of operations, to tell another part of the story that television series or "narcotours" do not always record.

Escobar was one of the richest men in the world after founding an empire of crime and terror that he headed until his death at the hands of the police in 1993. Moved by his fame , which grows thanks to television series, curious groups visited the fort that built the narco in the 80s in one of the most exclusive areas of Medellín.

"The demolish is more symbolic and that is what the neighbors who suffered from the arrival of tourists who visited this place asked to look at it morbidly," said Mayor Federico Gutiérrez.

As part of the mayor's initiative aimed at explaining the reality as it was, without fiction, since 2018, foreigners and Colombians who participated in the "narcotours" were in a building covered with trees. posters reminding these other "protagonists" that the authorities They insisted to emphasize: police officers, journalists, civilians or judges murdered by order of the capo.

The Monaco was also a reference for the first car bomb that exploded in Colombia. In 1988, the Cali cartel attacked the structure, with Escobar and his family in the interior. The blast hit the ear of the drug lord's daughter and unleashed a bloody war between cartels.

The attack also hurt the ego of this narcotics trafficker because the explosives have affected its valuable collections of luxury cars and works of art.

"The demolition is a step, but it is perhaps the justification and voice of the victims who can scare the ghost" of Escobar, said Alonso Salazar, author of the book "Parabola de Pablo" and former mayor of Medellín .

Despite the fall of Escobar and other great leaders, Colombia remains the largest producer of cocaine and the United States the largest consumer of this drug.

AFP Agency and El Tiempo newspaper