Justin Berfield

Pablo Escobar’s family has organized a tourist excursion of Medellin similar in style to the Gangsters of Chicago and which idealizes the biggest drug trafficker in the history of Colombia. The tour route traveled in school buses brings Escobar’s last days to life , with tourist guide Natalia Buitrago telling the story of the Medellin drug cartel’s founder. First stop on the tour is the house in the Los Olivos neighborhood where Colombian National Police gunned the kingpin down as he and...Read Full Story

The house where Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar died, a must-see for tourists in the northwestern city of Medellin, is up for sale, the daily El Tiempo said Monday. The house in the Los Olivos neighborhood was inhabited for two months by the world’s then-most-wanted man until the day he died on Dec. 2, 1993. The current owner, Omar Restrepo, an importer of heavy machinery, purchased it in 2008. “I was looking for a house that could be remodeled to my taste and a gentlemen introduced...Read Full Story

“BIOGRAPHY OF A HIDDEN SON” Throughout the world, popular belief always thought that Pablo Escobar had only 1 son and 1 daughter, (Juan Pablo Escobar now “Sebastian Marroquin Santos” after changing his identity & daughter Manuela). 17 years after the druglords demise, again the ESCOBAR name shocks the world, this time with news that no one would of ever imagined…..ANOTHER SON…THE FIRSTBORN: “Jose Pablo Rodriguez” real name= Pablo Escobar Jr. ? Now, is it a Coincidence there’s JOSE PABLO...Read Full Story

After years of Hollywood perplexing to move his story to a large screen, there will eventually be a Pablo Escobar biopic. According to The Hollywood Reporter , Brad Furman, executive of this spring’s “The Lincoln Lawyer,” will helm a film about a barbarous Colombian drug lord, which will be created by Matt Aldrich. In removing a film off a ground, Furman will do what both Oliver Stone as good as Joe Carnahan unsuccessful to do with their determined versions. “This is a Latino Godfather...Read Full Story

After years of Hollywood trying to bring his story to the big screen, there will finally be a Pablo Escobar biopic. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brad Furman, director of this spring’s “The Lincoln Lawyer,” will helm a film about the infamous Colombian drug lord, which will be written by Matt Aldrich. In getting the movie off the ground, Furman will do what both Oliver Stone and Joe Carnahan failed to do with their aspiring versions. “This is the Latino Godfather,” the film’s...Read Full Story