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Colombia to demolish Pablo Escobar's former fortress home
The former stronghold of late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is to be demolished. Authorities in the city of Medellin plan to replace the building with a park dedicated to the victims of narcotics trafficking.
Date 21.02.2019
Author Richard Connor
Pablo Escobar's fortified home — a brutalist eight-story concrete block in one of Medellin's plushest neighborhoods — is earmarked for demolition on Friday, as part of an effort to change the way the drug kingpin's story is told.
The stronghold, known as the Monaco building, is to be razed to the ground with explosives in a show for the public.
Plans are in place to turn the property into a commemorative space to remember victims of the illegal drug trade who were killed during the 1980s and 1990s in a bloody war with authorities.
"The Monaco building will fall," Medellin's city hall tweeted ahead of the planned demolition. "It's not about erasing history but starting to tell it from the right side; that of the victims and the innocent heroes."
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