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Originally Posted by WebCashMaker
I went on an organized city walking tour and one thing the tour guide made clear was that it was NOT a tour that would include anything to do with Pablo Escobar.
He did not want to glorify the man and even cringed when he said the name Pablo Escobar.
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Originally Posted by WebCashMaker
I guess from what I gathered, most everyone in Medellin was negativity effected by Pablo Escobar. Sure he may have given away truck loads of money and built soccer pitches for the people in the slums, but the long term effects was worse.
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More or less false. Trapped inside your little tourist box of Parque Lleras you'll find many people that feel that way. There is a pretty big segregation between the rich and the poor in Medellin, and "most everyone" as you put it, would be the poor as they far outweigh the rich and very small middle class in numbers. Most will praise Pablo Escobar based on ignorance, fame, or because they or family members/friends, 'worked for', or knew someone that 'worked for' Pablo Escobar. They'll say that but who knows just how connected their shady dealings actually were. Pablo had some legal building/court burned down which at the time included thousands of records of crimes/legal processes from other people, who had to be let off the hook or even taken out of jail! Not something they would've forgotten about any time soon. Besides the soccer fields and all that other stuff, which of course, would not help much in the long run. However with or without Pablo, they still do a fine job of exploiting, underpaying, overworking, and overlooking the lower class. Go to where Pablo Escobar helped out ghettos and things like that and see what they have to say, not in Parque Lleras with your cargo shorts on and flip flops looking like a faggot asking the people he terrorized what they think about him.
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Originally Posted by WebCashMaker
Maybe a local webmaster here can explain to us even further of what it was like to live during the time of Pablo Escobar.
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I wasn't here during that time but it must've been absolutely nuts. I was lucky enough to start living here before the huge gringo influx, before the photomultas (traffic cameras), drinking driving laws, and many other things that have changed over the years. I remember one of the first ATMs I used, the bank and the ATM itself still had bullet holes in them. I've owned two bulletproof vehicles here. At least a thousand more crazier stories that I won't talk about.
