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I didn’t know how to react, but that shows you how architecture can be a tool for making peace, even with your worst enemies.” “It was a very awkward situation because the guy destroyed my house and I designed one for him. “Years after the project was finished and built, I found out the client was one of the men who put a bomb in my house in 1988,” says Marroquín. But some of them understand that I chose another path.”Īs for the client who destroyed his home? Marroquín designed the mansion remotely, and didn’t know who it was for until the project was complete.

“Many times people say no to me because of the prejudice they have with my father’s story. “There are a lot of tragedies with my family’s story, and almost everybody thinks that I am just another Pablo Escobar,” says Marroquín. It doesn't matter if you change your name. Now, he’s an architect who has built mansions for others - including one client who bombed Marroquín’s own home during the drug wars of his father’s heyday.Īuthor and architect Sebastián Marroquín, son of the drug lord Pablo Escobar.īut getting work when you’re an Escobar isn’t easy. There, he had a room just for toys, sprawling parks, a zoo with exotic animals and swimming pools. Though he was just 16 years old when his father died, Escoabar’s son, Sebastián Marroquín, whose birth name is Juan Pablo Escobar, remembers the mansion he grew up in well. It’s a gentle scene, unlike those usually associated with the boy's grandfather, Pablo Escobar, whose cartel supplied about 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States in the late 80s and inspired the Netflix show " Narcos." Said to have been the seventh richest man in the world and responsible for thousands of deaths, Escobar created an empire of mansions and hideaway spots until he was killed in a police chase in 1993. His father explains to him how electricity enters a house, appreciative to see the boy take an interest in the architecture, the industry in which he works. This is far from the story of a child seeking redemption, but a shocking look at the consequences of violence and his attempt to come to terms with it.Every so often, Sebastián Marroquín walks through the streets of Buenos Aires with his 4-year-old son, who gleefully points out cement trucks and buildings under construction. With his change of heart, he denounced the Pablo Escobar legacy. quickly recognised that meant following in his father's footsteps-something neither of them had ever wanted. When Escobar died, his then teenage son vowed revenge. In a deeply personal exploration of his father, we see the inner world of a man who was celebrated by some as a benevolent Robin Hood figure and by others, as a dangerous leader of the most ruthless mafia organisation in human history, reaping vengeance and death on anyone that might stand in his way. Here we find a man of contradictions - generosity and infinite love for his family yet capable of the most extreme acts of cruelty and violence. Now, more than two decades after the full-fledged manhunt finally caught up with Escobar, his son brings us the dramatic truth as never before. But these versions have always been told from the outside, only capturing half the truth, and never from the intimacy of his own home.
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Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar - from books to film to the cult series 'Narcos'.

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