Life after Escobar: How one man has risked it all to tell the horrifying stories of the drug baron’s victims

Last month, the Colombian city of Medellín demolished the palatial former home of its most notorious son, the billionaire drugs baron Pablo Escobar, in an attempt to finally lay his ghost to rest. So why are his thousands of victims are only now being honoured – and who is the man who has risked his life to tell their stories?

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On a hot, sunny Friday last month in the Colombian city of Medellín, nestled in a valley high in the Andes, 1,600 people gathered at the city’s Country Club for an occasion fraught with symbolism for the entire country. Behind a stage set with large LCD screens loomed the Mónaco building, a white, eight-storey edifice with a penthouse apartment at the top.

It was here…

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