Pablo Escobar's terrible attacks in Colombia

Escobar’s attacks in Colombia.
They are still remembered.
He ordered to kill without mercy.

Some of the more than 600 terrorist acts of the Medellín gang include, assassinations of national figures, damage caused in public places, schools, newspapers and even bombs on planes. To this day, the terrible attacks perpetrated by Pablo Escobar in Colombia continue to cause horror.

Exactly 623 attacks, that left some 402 dead and 1,710 injured, are attributed to the Medellín cartel led by Pablo Escobar during the greatest period of drug-related violence in Colombian history.

Pablo Escobar’s terrible attacks in Colombia

The terrible attacks of Pablo Escobar in Colombia — PHOTO: Infobae website capture

Blood and pain invaded the country from 1984 to 1993. This was the period when Escobar caused damage with selective attacks on public places, institutions, the media and even bombing a commercial plane. For this narco lord, there were no limits.

According to Infobae and information obtained from Jhon Jairo Velásquez, alias ‘Popeye’, known for being one of Escobar’s main assassins, more than 6,000 people died as a result of Pablo Escobar’s terrible attacks in Colombia

Selective killings

Anyone who set out to interfere with Pablo Escobar’s interests immediately became his target. Many politicians and public figures were victims of the drug trafficking leader’s brutality.

Some of the people who paid with their lives for being opponents of Escobar were the Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla; the director of the newspaper El Espectador, Guillermo Cano; and the then neoliberal presidential candidate, Luis Carlos Galán.

Bombs all over Colombia

Bombs for Colombia — PHOTO: Infobae website capture

Every month car bombs were detonated in different cities in Colombia. In 1993 alone, the year Escobar was assassinated by popular forces on December 2, several cars with explosives were detonated, claiming innocent lives.

On January 30, in the center of Bogotá, one killed 25 people; on February 15, two more in the same place, resulting in four deaths. On April 15, in a luxury area of the capital, 11 people were murdered. These acts were all ordered by Escobar.

A downed plane

This is perhaps Escobar’s most brutal attack due to the horrible and disturbing damage that he inflicted on November 27, 1989. Pablo Escobar was never held responsible. However, his guilt was more than clear to authorities and the public.

A commercial flight of the national airline Avianca took off from El Dorado Airport in Bogotá bound for Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport in Palmira to land in Cali. Five minutes later, at 10,000 feet, it exploded. There were no survivors in this attack.

They continue to remember the damage to Colombia

Almost 30 years after the terrible incidents that an entire nation experienced, Pablo Escobar’s terrible attacks in Colombia continue to be remembered. For the mercenary it was only a game of egos and power, but for an entire country it was a martyrdom.

Regardless of the social group to which they belonged, whether they were friends, acquaintances or even family, Pablo Escobar made it clear that for him there were no limits when it came to revenge, because he would not rest until he saw his goal fulfilled.