This owl opens its eyes to a news that impacts me. Two hitmen aboard a motorcycle murdered the journalist of Radio Karibeña, Raúl Celis López. The press man was on a motorcycle taxi to his workplace when he was intercepted by criminals. To this is added the crime of another journalist a few months ago in Ica.
This spiral of violence, which puts us at the same level of what happens in Sinaloa or Tijuana, is a consequence of a faint -hearted government, which has no leadership, and this situation will be aggravated. Each time criminal organizations have more economic power and it is easy for them to buy hitmen, bad police, prosecutors, judges and candidates for Congress, and even for the presidency. Although I have more than three decades ‘running the court’ in this trade, it does not cease to surprise me how violence has us cornered.
It is sad to say it, but we are surrounded by psychopaths and murderers who, without any remorse, are able to shoot men, women and children in the head. Our society is sick. It reminds me of Colombia’s most terrible era, shaken by drug attacks.
Entrance to the ‘Tunnel of Time’. December 2013. I traveled to Medellín, land of the most beautiful girls in South America. Fashion capital. Cradle of the illustrious painter and sculptor Fernando Botero. Inspiration of singer Juanes. Origin of the Antioquia brandy, of the paisa tray. Among so many beauty it was difficult for me to believe that in this modern city and of kind settlers, one of the most sinister minds of the last century, that of Pablo Escobar, the ‘patron’, as his faithful hitmen have fertilized.
Leader of the Sanguar Cartel de Medellín, who – among his thousands of crimes – murdered the Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, the presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán, to the director of the newspaper ‘El Espectador’, Guillermo Cano, and made an Avianca plane burst in which 107 passengers died. The war that began Escobar against the State left a figure of 50 thousand dead, from 84 to 93.
-In addition, he changed the face of Colombia, a country that went from being known as ‘La Tierra del Café’ to become ‘the land of coca’. Much has been written and produced on him: books, magazines, series, movies. The urban legend says that traveling to the Carnival of Rio de Janeiro with 2 million dollars to have fun. Total! He was on the list of the richest men in the world, according to Forbes magazine. But today is underground, without more fortune than his reputation as a criminal, as those of that calaña always end. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, ‘Popeye’, a hitman of his most intimate circle, described in cold blood each of his murders, like that time when he had to get rid of the woman whom he loved most at the request of his boss.
At the beginning ‘Popeye’ 250 murders were attributed to him and organize the death of three thousand people. In addition to being the head of various attacks and kidnappings by order of their ’employer’. ‘Popeye’ spoke with eloquence. He warned before he died that Peru was one step away from becoming the Colombia of Pablo Escobar, where he was trafficked, killed and kidnapped in complicity with the authorities. Creepy. I turn off the TV.
The owl and a western classic
The owl and the famous groups of the eighties
‘Picotitos’ of the owl
