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Pablo D. Santonja | @DatosAntonja

I assumed I used to be going to search out one other story of the narco par excellence. : Bigote, submachine weapons, the hacienda Naples, the zoo, the DEA and a path of lifeless. However not. What I discovered was his son. And I didn't see him coming.

The story begins as a shot that escapes whereas some guys clear their weapons. We’re on the farm of Pablo Escobar himself, and those that play with weapons are the sample's bodyguards. Those that, between execution and execution, made nannies of little Juan Pablo.

Flashback Salsa music with distortion. Sluggish chamber A toddler with a glance between harmless and resigned is strolling amongst criminals with names of cartoon villains: set off, laucca, bitter, tangerine, the black, the poet. A gallery of characters that might have left a Man Ritchie film, if it had grown up in Medellín.

This isn’t a narrative about Pablo Escobar. It’s concerning the little one who grew between hitmen who smelled of gunpowder and cocaine. An childhood the place violence was routine and loyalty, an idea deformed by survival.

Sebastián Marroquín – the son, previously often known as Juan Pablo Escobar -, along with the director Pablo Martín Farina and with the illustrations of Alberto Madrigal, serves this story within the type of a comic book, a perfect medium for a childhood as surreal as wild. “It was not the second or the correct method to enter that world stuffed with worry and darkness,” Marroquín explains within the introduction. However now, with distance and ink, he dares to look again.

And what we see is not only grotesque. It’s sarcastically tender. Tragicomic. The story of a kid who by no means requested to be born within the epicenter of essentially the most deadly organized crime of the 20 th century. An childhood advised between nerve laughs, loaded weapons and life classes given by murderers with nicknames.

“Escobar: a felony schooling” doesn’t search to glorify, victimize, or clarify the inexplicable. He solely reveals it. Uncooked. And in vignettes.

Impeccable and courageous narration.