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Now the freedom I yearned for is vanishing in the murderous hands of my enemies. To the world, I'll always be known by my alias, Popeye, the fearsome hitman of the Medellin cartel, Pablo Escobar Gaviria's right-hand man … How can I make you understand I'm a new man … that twenty-three years behind bars in that hellhole have transformed the person I once was.

My youth, wasted in crime, became the sword that now hangs over my graying head. The Medellin cartel's crimes weigh as heavily on my shoulders today as they did yesterday. I still feel his presence every day of my existence. I survived Pablo Escobar Gaviria, El Patrón (The Boss), and it was the strength of his indomitable spirit that kept me going all these years I don't quite know how or why. Oh my God, I've lived so many different lives! I've paid my dues to society by serving my long sentence, but perhaps I haven't earned His indulgence … Summary I've begged God for forgiveness, but I won't know till the day I die if He has truly forgiven me … Publisher: Ediciones y Distribuciones Dipon Ltda. Get the latest on organized crime and the Mafia at Gangsters Inc.'s news section.įollow Gangsters Inc.READ Surviving Pablo Escobar - "Popeye" The Hitman 23 years and 3 months in prison Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez Especially when people remember your crimes. Once you're in, the criminal underworld is very hard to get out of. Leaving one's criminal past behind is not an easy thing to do.

“He was trying to recover property money that he left years ago in the hands of narcos, and that very likely was inherited or received by their relatives, who are the ones who have been pressing and are the ones who denounced him,” a source told El Tiempo about the charges. They claim he had been extorting money from figures who had worked as frontmen for Pablo Escobar and had assets in their name linked to the Cartel’s criminal activities.

Colombian police arrested “Popeye” in Medellín yesterday and charged him with extortion and criminal conspiracy. In the background, he continued doing what he knew best: Crime. He became a media darling and minor celebrity.Īuthorities, however, say his new career was just for laughs.

POPEYE PABLO ESCOBAR SERIES

READ: Pablo Escobar's brutal war on ColombiaĪs a result of his crimes, Velasquez Vásquez, who went by the nickname “ Popeye,” was sentenced to 52 years in prison in 1992.īut he was released early, in 2014, and immediately took to the limelight when Escobar’s story was being shown around the world in the hit Netflix television series Narcos.VIDEO: Meet Popeye: Pablo Escobar's most trusted hitman now living in freedomĪmong his victims are scores of influential people like Andres Pastrana Arango, who was kidnapped by Vásquez and his crew and who would later become President of the Republic Francisco Santos, who was also kidnapped and would go on to become vice president and Presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, who was assassinated.As self-proclaimed commander of Escobar’s Medellín Cartel network of sicarios, he confessed personally committing over 250 killings and ordering 3,000 others. Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez (photo above), a man who was once one of drug lord Pablo Escobar’s most trusted and prolific hitmen, couldn’t do it. If you’ve spent years of your life trafficking drugs, committing kidnappings, robberies, and brutal murders all the while surrounded by like-minded men then changing yourself isn’t just hard, it becomes impossible.