Pablo Escobar Quotes

“I thought again about Pablo Escobar cutting off people's tongues. It made sense to stop speaking, to say only what was necessary and nothing beyond. It was a way to survive.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

“What song could Pablo Escobar possibly sing in the shower?”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

“Es que Dios, como Pablo Escobar no mata por mano propia, Él no se ensucia: para eso tiene sus sicarios.”
― Fernando Vallejo

“Escobar had drawn particular attention to himself by his terrorist tactics—he even bombed an airliner, killing 110 passengers, as pressure to stop his being extradited to the United States. His brutal violence against rivals also created so many enemies that victims formed a paramilitary group to get him. A curious alliance was formed of Colombian police, soldiers, and criminals, and American spies, drug agents, and troops, all after the big guy. Escobar was just waiting to die. Colombian police finally caught up with him in a residential Medellín house, shot him dead, and posed smiling with his corpse. Drug warriors learned a new modus operandi—sometimes it is better to forget about an arrest and go for the clean kill.”
― Ioan Grillo, El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency