This is how the wife of Pablo Escobar lives today

Victoria Eugenia Henao was 13 years old when Pablo Escobar came into her life. She grew up in a humble neighborhood of the Colombian city of Envigado and it was in that environment that she met, in 1973, the man who would be her future husband and father of her two children.

Victoria was the sister of one of Escobar’s best friends, Carlos Mario Henao Vallejos, when the drug trafficker began to take his first steps in drug trafficking when he was only 24 years old.

Despite the age difference, they were married three years later, on March 29, 1976. Eleven months later, Juan Pablo, the first of their two children, was born. The second, a girl named Manuela, would arrive in 1984.

Along with Pablo Escobar, the tataas she was known by her relatives, saw how the power of the drug trafficker grew, who became one of the most dangerous and powerful men in Colombia.

In an interview with Infobae and in the book he published in 2018, Pablo Escobar: My life and my prison, Victoria Eugenia Henao told about the abuses she experienced during her relationship with Escobar, between having sex when she was a minor and going through a forced abortion.

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In addition, he recounted the situations where his life and that of his children were at risk, such as the explosion of a car bomb with seven hundred kilos of dynamite in his home, death threats and kidnapping attempts.

Escobar died on December 2, 1993, at the age of 44, while fleeing barefoot through the roofs of a house in Medellín. One of his policemen who participated in the operation in which he was discharged (although his son maintains that he committed suicide with a bullet behind the ear), posed with his companions with a piece of Escobar’s mustache, like a war trophy.

After Escobar fell, his enemies wanted to kill his son, thinking he could be the heir, the widow said. “We gave them everything we had, we negotiated. But the life my son led showed them that he was going to be on the side of good, no wars or following his father’s bloody legacy,” Henao assured..

were left some pending balances with other narcos and not for debts but for revenge. Henao says that they forced her to have a meeting with them and hand over various properties, including those that had been seized by the State.

He assured that the charges they made him for Pablo Escobar’s debt with other cartels amounted to more than 120 million dollars. According to Henao, paying this sum would ensure that she and her family would not be killed. Those in charge of collecting said money demanded payment as forgiveness for everything they had spent in the war with him and for the damages that he caused them with kidnappings, murders, damage to their properties, among others.

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Henao says that he had to enter into a negotiation with “the main drug lords in Colombia”, among them the heads of the Cali cartel, the brothers Miguel and Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, José ‘Chepe’ Santacruz and Hélmer ‘Pacho’ Herrera. This process began in February 1994 and lasted at least eight months, until the woman was able to pay the full balance.

Victoria Eugenia Henao changed her legal name to María Isabel Santos Caballero and moved with her family to Argentina. From there she leads a quiet life as a writer and lecturer. In addition, she says on her Instagram account that she is a specialist in ontological coaching.. (I)