Long after his newfound fame and clumsy attempts at political activism had begun to disgust much of the nation, Velásquez had been re-imprisoned from May 2018 on charges that he conspired to commit extortion. In interviews with reporters he even re-enacted - to the horror of the families of Escobar’s victims - his methods of killing. In his YouTube clips (his “Popeye Repentant” channel, at the time of his death, has 1.2 million subscribers) he railed against leftist politicians, with one clip including a threat against backers of former presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, the Associated Press reported. Photo by RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty ImagesĪfter being released in 2014, Popeye had released a book, called ‘Surviving Pablo Escobar,’ and become an Internet personality. In this file photo taken on December 2, 2015, Jhon Jairo Velasquez, aka “Popeye,” visits the tomb of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar at the Montesacro Cemetery in Medellin. Given ten life sentences, he remains in a U.S.
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He was later deemed eligible for trial in Brooklyn - though the flight bombing happened in Colombia - because two passengers had been citizens of the U.S. Castaño would later turn against Escobar and help to hunt him down, before going on in the mid-1990s to lead his own drug-running paramilitary death squad made up of 30,000 fighters.Īnother Escobar hitman, Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera or “La Quica” was convicted of the bombing in a U.S. Popeye said the bombing - around which a number of unverified claims, some of them made by criminals, have swirled over the years - was masterminded by the warlord Carlos Castaño. Photo by Washington Post photo by Scott Wilson He was protecting the monarch butterfly from Mexico's illegal loggers, but he was the one in dangerĬarlos Castano, a one-time Pablo Escobar ally who would go on to found the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a paramilitary death squad.
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