42 minutes agoHow Pablo Escobar had pardoned Peru's coach
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(8 years ago)Pablo Eskobar is considered one of the biggest barons of drug production and distribution in history after having searched international traffic through the Medeli cartel for many years. But he is also remembered as a heartless murderer who had no problem ordering the murder of hundreds of innocents only to harm [...]
But he is also remembered as a heartless murderer who had no problem ordering the murder of hundreds of innocents only to harm his rivals.
However, Escobar had a weak spot, football, and only love for the sport led the famous Colombian boss to decide not to kill the former Argentinean star, now Peru coach Ricardo Gareka.
A few days earlier, one of the killers working for Eskobar, Jho Jöro Velaskez Vaskez, known as “Popeye”, told of one of the Peruan newspapers that in the midst of the war on the cartels of Medeli and Kali, Eskobar had been very close to making the decision to kill the entire team of America De Kali, who belonged to his rivals, Orehuela brothers of Kali cartel.
The star of that team in 1986-1988 was Gareka, already the renowned coach who led Peru even to Russia 2018.
At the time, Escobar planned a series of assassinations to hit the opposing cartel, with bombs placed in its main offices leaving many dead, reports Vipp Sport.
“Ricardo Gareka has always been a target of Pablo Escobar, but in the end there was no attack. Eskobar's love of football saved him and other American players De Kali, even though it was discussed many times that a car was placed “, explained “Popeye”.
“Anyway, he took the team players hostage in order to anger Rodriguez Orehuela, and when they did not cooperate, they killed Pedro Enrike Sarminento”'s family, he told of the bloody years of war on cartels in Colombia.
