![]() It’s also in it’s third printing having been re- leased under another title in The UK, Sweeden, Australia and The Netherlands. ![]() ![]() His latest book, “You Can’t Scare Him He’s A Parent” is a collection of his interna- tionally syndicated comic strip “Daddy’s Home.” His book “Why Didn’t I Think Of That? 101 Inventions That Changed The World By Hardly Trying,” was released is now an internationally syndicated, weekly column in the UK and other English-speaking countries. Combining his strengths humor, art and comics, he found his calling in the study of drivel. Anthony Rubino, Jr., was born in New Jersey to a first-generation, Italian-American, Roman Catholic family. He had served just thirteen months of a five-year sentence.Tony’s paintings and prints have been featured in galleries in New York, Chicago, Washington and LA - and can be found in museums in Greece, Italy and The USA. But it wasn’t until 1992 when Escobar ordered the murder of several cartel leaders along with their entourages and families from the security of his luxurious La Catedral that the Colombian government decided it was time to end the charade.īy the time army troops descended on “Club Medellin” though, Escobar was long gone after having just walked out the door unmolested. Escobar’s Escape From La Catedral And The Prison TodayĪs opponents to the policy of negotiated surrender had predicted, imprisonment did not prevent Escobar from running his drug empire.ĭuring his time at “Hotel Escobar,” the kingpin received more than 300 unauthorized guests, including several wanted criminals. ![]() He feasted on stuffed turkey, caviar, fresh salmon, and smoked trout while in the arms of beauty queens. La Catedral was so extravagant, in fact, that it also boasted an industrial kitchen, a billiards room, several bars with big-screen TVs, and a disco where the drug kingpin actually hosted wedding receptions during his imprisonment. Nor do they have access to outdoor sports facilities grand enough to host national sports teams, as Escobar did when he invited the entire Colombian National Team to play on his personal soccer pitch. While most federal prisoners in the United States do have access to a gym, for example, they do not usually also have access to a sauna, jacuzzi, and pool with a waterfall. Timothy Ross/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images La Catedral, the special prison where Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is under arrest, guarded by his own keepers, in luxurious view of his hometown. Escobar kept up his end of the bargain and turned himself in a few days afterward with President Cesar Gaviria declaring that the narco’s “treatment will not be any different from what the law demands.” court which Escobar wanted to avoid.ĭuring negotiations, Escobar also added in conditions that reduced his jail time to five years and that would ensure he served his sentence in a prison of his own construction, surrounded by hand-picked guards as well as protected from his enemies by Colombian soldiers.ĭespite opposition from hard-liners claiming the negotiated surrender policy was nothing but a farce, the Colombian government added an amendment to the constitution which banned the extradition of citizens in June of 1991. The terms of surrender stipulated that Escobar and his cronies would cease their domestic terrorism and give themselves up to the authorities in exchange for the promise that they would not be extradited to the United States. Things eventually came to something of a deadlock with both sides refusing to give up any ground until a new policy was tentatively agreed upon: negotiated surrender. However, a small group of politicians and policemen devoted to imposing rule of law in Colombia refused to be intimidated by Escobar. Even today, Escobar’s memory is reviled by those who deplore the violence and devastation he wrought, while it is revered by others, who remember his acts of charity in his home city. The Colombian government struggled to prosecute Escobar’s Medellin cartel because Pablo Escobar himself was so popular amongst certain segments of the public. Indeed, La Catedral was more a fortress than prison, as Escobar effectively kept his enemies out rather than lock himself in and continued to conduct his grisly business. The prison featured a football field, jacuzzi, and waterfall. He constructed a jail so lavish it was referred to as “Hotel Escobar” or “Club Medellin,” but the enduring name has been La Catedral, “The Cathedral,” and with good reason. When druglord and “King of Coke” Pablo Escobar agreed to a prison sentence in Colombia, he did so on his own terms. RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images The prison known as La Catedral (“The Cathedral”), where late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was held near Medellin, Colombia.
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