Pablo Escobar’s son is an interesting man. At the age of 39 Juan Pablo Escobar, who now goes by Sebastián Marroquín, is a Colombian architect, lecturer, drug policy reform advocate, and writer.

When he was a teenager, he vowed to avenge the death of his father, but for the past five years he has lived a very different life, sharing the absurd stories of his childhood and apologising to the families of the victims of his father’s ultra-violent lifestyle.

Living in Argentina, Juan wrote a book ‘Pablo Escobar: My Father’, and an excerpt from it details how Pablo Escobar escaped from the very prison he built himself.

Here’s a snippet:

My father didn’t carry a weapon in La Catedral because there was always a guard by his side, ready to pass him a sub-machine gun or a cell phone…

I went up to the prison a few days later. It seemed deserted. There was nobody in the main hall, just a couple of frightened-looking guards. Where is everybody? I wondered as a guard signalled me to follow him down a dirt path toward the soccer field. From there, he pointed at the woods, where a few wooden cabins were hidden amid the vegetation.

I realized then that my father and all of his men had moved to shelters they’d built just inside the prison’s perimeter fence. I couldn’t find my father’s cabin until he emerged from a thicket and showed me the way. When I asked him what was going on, he told me he’d decided to evacuate the main building because that was the area most likely to be bombed.

You can read the whole scenario laid out by Juan on The Daily Beast.

[source:thedailybeast]