For Escobar, Christmas was a really important occasion and he tried to make those around him feel happy on this date.
Around the Colombian Pablo Escobar, the deceased leader of the Medellín cartel, there are several very unique stories that over time come to light and attract the attention of a large public.
Although not all have been verified, many have become very popular. Like the one that ensures that Escobar ordered to buy a white horse to turn it into a unicorn, because that was the wish of her daughter Manuela, who was her weakness.
To make it look like a unicorn, a bull’s horn was brutally embedded in his head and paper wings were put on him, stuck on your body. The animal died of a generalized infection within a few days, this according to John Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, alias Popeye, Escobar Gaviria’s lieutenant and head of hitmen, with 250 confessed deaths and 3,000 planned murders behind him.
Velásquez told this and many other stories about Escobar through his YouTube channel, because he was a close friend, very close to the drug dealer.
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Velásquez once spoke about Ecobar’s devotion to his wife Victoria Heano, the Tata, the weakness for his children Juan Pablo and Manuela, and the million dollars spent on jewelry and travel for beauty queens that he carried to his bed and the fortunes he left in eccentric gifts for his family, it is indicated in a publication of Infobae.
One of the anecdotes that he narrated in that space was that the Pattern he always woke up around three in the morning feeling an irrepressible craving: he wanted to eat rice and eggs. Popeye would go to the kitchen, light the stove, and put four eggs in oil. When they started to fry, I would add the rice and stir them. Escobar ate it with a glass of hot milk and two arepas. When he finished, he asked for a coffee with milk, very frothy: “whisk it in a blender,” he ordered.
Christmas, a special date
For Escobar, Christmas was a really important occasion and he tried to make those around him feel happy on this date.
For example, during one month of December, The drug trafficker ordered the construction of more than 200 houses for the people who previously lived in Moravia, the great garbage dump of Medellín. He also designed 50 soccer fields and sent gifts for the tree to all the inhabitants of that region. They called him the Robin Hood Paisa.
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His spirit to celebrate this occasion did not slow down even when he was in prison. While he was in the Itagüí jail, planned a Christmas with a big feast. This time it was his mother in charge of bringing all the delicacies and music.
And although he was dedicated to satisfying the wishes of many, the most important for Escobar were always those of his daughter Manuela. The little girl’s letter to Santa was fulfilled to the letter, no matter what the girl’s request was.
To illustrate the narco’s devotion to his daughter, Juan Pablo Escobar or Sebastián Marroquín, a name that his other son chose to start a life in Argentina, he said that on some occasion his father came to burn two million dollars, only with the aim of lighting a fire to warm the girl, who shivered with cold, while they were in a lair.
“Under her daughter’s pillow she would put bundles of the Tooth Fairy bills for each tooth that fell out. At the age of five or six, his father explained to him that they had so much money because they were magical, they had a gift that made them win tens of millions in the lottery, “he recalled to The world from Spain José Alejandro Castaño, author of the only book dedicated to Manuela Escobar (Close your eyes, princess).
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On another occasion, Manuela told her father that she liked Christmas trees with snow, as she saw on television. And Escobar transferred to the Napoles farm the machine that made the ice in his skating rink in Medellín to fulfill the wish of the little girl.
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Relating to this devotion of Escobar with his daughter, Popeye spread the story of the unicorn. The hit man assured it without hesitation: “The poor animal died from the infection and the toxicity of the glue for the wings.”
Victoria Henao, the narco’s widow, remained silent for years while the legend grew, however, in 2019, with the publication of the book My Life and My Prison with Pablo Escobar (Editorial Planeta), He told the truth about that day in Medellín where the myth of the unicorn originated.
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The version that began to circulate indicated that the unicorn was a gift for the little girl’s fifth birthday and not for Christmas. Escobar’s family believes that this rumor was aimed at show two faces of the capo: on the one hand, his obsession with his daughter; on the other, his cruelty.
Henao narrated in his book what would have actually happened.
“When Manuela turned five years old, in 1989, we celebrated her birthday at Hacienda Napoles. That day, Pablo attended for a while and gave him a black mare and her calf, but the girl could never enjoy them because she always had to run to hide. From that birthday a lying story arose that has transcended in the imaginary and to this day many assume that it was true “.
“I am referring to the famous unicorn that they say Pablo gave to his daughter. What madness. They went so far as to affirm that Pablo ordered that a chunk (horn) be nailed to the forehead of a white horse and that they glued wings with staples to make it look like a unicorn. They also said that the animal had died from the infection caused by the wounds. I don’t know where that atrocious tale came from, but the truth is that it never happened ”. (I)
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