Is MORTOo Popeye, called in the world of the narcos “Jota Jota”, the century, Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez , the leader of the assassins of the former king of cocaine, the master of evil Pablo Escobar Gaviria . He had 57 years and more than one suffered from a stomach cancer that had devastated it. Passed away yesterday in the National Cancer Institute of Bogota.
from a young age he enlisted in the band of Escobar and put in a light for his coolness and his capacity for organization. Rooms all the steps and small banditello of Medellí soon assumes the role of leader of the assassins, over 400, that the man who had dreamed of becoming the master of the world had at its disposal. To loosen the pressure around Escobar, forced to continually change, safe houses because it was closely followed by the Bloque de Búsqueda, the Catturandi set up by the army and by the secret service, in 1991 she decided to surrender.
Is locked up in the maximum security prison of Cómbita, and sentenced to over 20 years in prison. But for only one murder, that of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán , although he had allowed at least 300, in addition to the planning of 3,500 shares, marked by the killings and terrorist attacks with car bombs. The most striking result was that against a plane of Avianca load of passengers that exploded in flight.
To carry the bomb on board was a young boy, convinced of carrying a parcel which had been entrusted to him personally by Escobar. Happy to have been chosen by the big boss for an important mission and for the support that you would have had with his young wife, and died without understanding the trap that had been stretched with so much cynicism. Popeye accompanied him up at the airport and with the smile between the lips and said: “Quiet, you’ll see that everything will be fine”. The wife, also paid the price: he was killed because potential witness.
The head of the goons was so-contemptuous and together with paternal. Certainly was not stupid: he was the only one to survive the slaughter that followed the fierce war hired by the Cartel of Medellín to force the State to reject the request of extradition made by the Usa. The Estradabili, as is called the Confederation between the Cartels set up by Escobar, were the architects of a war, ruthless and bloody. Were made out of dozens of policemen, magistrates, soldiers. Seized for months, politicians, intellectuals, journalists, entrepreneurs. The aim was to unleash terror and to force the Institutions to come to terms with.
The agreement was eventually reached: nothing estadizione. Ceased, ambushes, and attacks. Escobar surrendered and, along with another hundred of his men had her locked up in the large structure that he had built in the middle of the countryside.
Of here, and fled all together when the State decided to re-approve the extradition. John Jairo agreed at that point its made with the consent of the same Escobar. He agreed to collaborate with the judiciary and accepted 300 murders. But his cunning, along with the cynicism, saved his skin, even from behind bars, where many people were wanting him dead by the militants of the Auc right wing paramilitaries, the Farc, to the opponents of the Cartel del Norte de Valle. He could put them one against the other, in changing alliances.
he Served the sentence and was released on 27 August 2014. From that moment he began his second life. Claimed his repentance and continued to tell details and anecdotes of his career as an assassin. It was on Youtube where he opened a channel, Popeye arrepentido. He has written books, has promoted films and documentaries about his life, including one, illuminating the product from Netflix. It was contrary to the peace process with the Farc that he publicly criticised.
In June 2016, gave an interview to Verne in which he explained that its presence on the Network was to keep in touch with people and send a message. “I do it to prove that it’s not worth the criminal,” he said. Liar, besides that stubborn assassin. Anyone he considered his enemy, he was still being threatened.
It is made to stop a second time at the end of 2017. He was surprised at the house of Juan Carlos Mesa , said Tom, head of the Oficina de Beamed, a criminal gang created by Escobar that Jota Jota continued to call “el patrón”. She was attending a lavish party with all the old friends of a time surviving. “It was a feast,” he said to the agents that get caught and objected to the presence of the mountains of coke on the tables as well as an episode of extortion. “What happened, happened. It is not a crime to go to a party”. Two years later, on the 31st of December last, was admitted in the hospital. His body was full of metastases. He resisted a month.
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