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Chapter 3 focuses on Pablo Escobar’s former “trophy woman” (“mafia doll”), the 1980’s television celebrity Virginia Vallejo, whose autobiography details her tumultuous affair with the capo. It explores how Vallejo negotiates her own position vis-à-vis Colombia’s war on drugs, including the issue of culpability and her own victimhood once Escobar’s ...
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Chapter 3 focuses on Pablo Escobar’s former “trophy woman” (“mafia doll”), the 1980’s television celebrity Virginia Vallejo, whose autobiography details her tumultuous affair with the capo. It explores how Vallejo negotiates her own position vis-à-vis Colombia’s war on drugs, including the issue of culpability and her own victimhood once Escobar’s ...
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Remembering Pablo: Escobar refuses to be forgotten
Fabula, 2020AbstractSynonymous with Colombian cocaine and narcoterrorism, Pablo Escobar (1949–1993) was despised by the leaders of nations and became the primary target of the US government’s war on drugs. At the same time, Escobar gained fame and adulation, he entered popular culture through television and cinema, and became romanticized, idealized and turned ...
Anna Maria Karczewska
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Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture
2020In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration of Escobar’s impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how his legacy inspired the development of narcoculture—television, music, literature, and ...
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Peddling Pablo: Escobar’s Cultural Renaissance
Hispania, 2013Nearly two decades after his death, Pablo Escobar has reemerged in a number of autobiographical publications that revisit the era of the Medellín cartel and its most infamous capo. Rather than providing strictly historical information, these texts adopt an anecdotal and intimate angle from the positions of Escobar’s hitman, his lover, his siblings,
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Pablo Escobar, Drug Baron: His surrender, imprisonment, and escape
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 1996Pablo Escobar was a leading drug baron of Colombia until his death in 1993. This article reveals another side of Escobar, then discusses the details of his negotiated surrender and gives an hour‐by‐hour account of events prior to his escape on July 25, 1992.
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Of Pandillas, Pirucas, and Pablo Escobar in the Barrio
2017The putatively unprecedented rise to prominence of Central American youth gangs during the past two decades and a half is widely seen to epitomize the critical transformation that the region’s post-Cold War political economy of violence has undergone, moving from being predominantly related to ideologically-charged conflicts over the nature of the ...
Dennis Rodgers
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Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ spark conservation row
Nature, 2023Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
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¿Qué hacemos con Pablo? Narrativas y memoria en torno a la figura de Pablo Escobar
¿Cómo y por qué recordar a Pablo Escobar? Después de ver cómo el propio capo obró para fomentar una narración que permitiera que se le recordara después de su muerte, propondremos un recorrido por unos lugares públicos o privados emblemáticos, que hoy siguen asociados con su imagen o la evocan.
Bouvet, Françoise
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Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture by Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
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