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Remote Control Car Bomb

On January 30, 1993, a car loaded with 220 pounds of high explosives was remotely detonated outside a busy shopping center in downtown Bogota. It killed 20 shoppers including four children. On January 15, Escobar had made a declaration of war claiming that he was going to bomb the city every day until he was granted his rights as a citizen. As Escobar's sicarios started falling, so did the car bombs. He would eventually lose everyone who did dirty deeds for him. Unfortunately for Gaviria, the country had to bear many innocent lives as collateral damage for the war on Escobar.

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With A Little Help From His Friends

Spotters are unarmed individuals with cell phones or radios who warn criminals of the movements of local police. For desperate people too young to wield weapons, they can still aid their families by helping crime bosses move around town undetected; or, in present day, to move across town. Every day, spotters help to smuggle people across the border into America by using binoculars at high vantage points and camouflaging themselves to be undetected by helicopters. Almost every spotter admits to doing what they do for money. That's the power of the drug trade. It can corrupt the youth and exploit poor families who will do anything for extra money.

But for Pablo, spotters weren't enough. His son Juan Pablo admitted that his father bought his own taxi firm to find out when his enemies arrived in his hometown. He also used the cabs to move around in less obvious cartel vehicles.

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Marta Ochoa

MAS ran an ad in the paper stating they wouldn’t pay and instead they offered a reward to any citizen who could provide information. They captured, tortured and left several members of M-19 in front of Medellin’s newspaper buildings with signs that read, “I’m from M-19 and I’m a kidnapper.” Needless to say, Marta was returned without any money being exchanged.

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