“In reality, my father [Pablo Escobar ] always interrupted others to be with his family. My father's priority was always the family.” RealityFatherPrioritiesInterruptedPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I would go to the office to visit my father [Pablo Escobar] and regardless of who he was meeting, he would drop everything to receive me in his office. In the series, the priorities that my father demonstrates are completely inverted and untrue.” FatherOfficeMeetingsSeriesPrioritiesUntrueInvertedPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“Throughout the series [Narcos], I appear younger and younger - I don't know why that is particular to Netflix, to show the evolution of Pablo Escobar's children in that manner.” KnowsChildrenShowsParticularEvolutionSeriesNetflixPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“When I was 7 years old and my father [Pablo Escobar] tells me "my profession is that of a bandido (a bandit) that is what I do" - these are the words he tells me after the assassination of the Minister of Justice ordered by my father himself in 1984 - it's very difficult to react to that when you are only 7 years old because you don't realize the significance of the word bandido.” YearsFatherDifficultRealizingJusticeProfessionMinistersSignificanceAssassinationBanditsPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“In a way, my father [Pablo Escobar] reached a certain degree of sincerity that I became to know and I would even say appreciate because I would have rather had my father treat me like this rather than as an idiot that would never have any idea about what was happening around us.” KnowsWayIdeasCertainFatherDegreesHappeningsAppreciateTreatsIdiotSincerityPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I argued constantly with my father [Pablo Escobar] because I never liked all the violence that he created.” FatherViolencePablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not a direct beneficiary of the violence that his actions generated.” PeopleMenActionViolenceGroupsDirectBeneficiariesPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I did not like [Pablo Escobar] actions because I did not think it was right to have bombs placed in a non-discriminatory fashion throughout the entire country.” ThinkingCountryActionFashionBombsPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I would argue with my father [Pablo Escobar] about his violent attitude and I would tell him to stop his violent ways and to think about peace as an alternative, especially given the many problems he was having. However, he would reply almost immediately by telling me "you are forgetting that the first bomb that exploded in Colombia was an attempt against you, your sister, and your mother - I did not invent narcoterrorism, narcoterrorism was first used against my family.” ThinkingWayFirstsProblemUsedMotherFatherGivenForgetAttitudeMy FamilyArguingViolentAlternativesBombsColombiaPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were the most vulnerable. In these types of extreme situations, we learned about the consequences of violence and that is why we did not go down the same path.” SituationPathViolenceTypeConsequenceStonesExtremesVulnerableThrownPablo EscobarConsequences Of Violence Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I think [Pablo Escobar] wasted an incredibly opportunity which was when he stayed at the prison he made, La Catedral. It was the one chance that the government and the people of Colombia gave him to confess his illicit activities and to remain in one place with very favorable conditions.” PeopleThinkingMadeGovernmentOpportunityChanceConditionsActivityPrisonColombiaOne ChancePablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“Sadly, [Pablo Escobar] ended up throwing away the one opportunity he had. I naively thought, as a son and as many other Colombians, that he would take this opportunity to make amends with the country.” CountryOpportunitySonThrowingAmendsThrowing AwayPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I am not saying this to serve as a justification for the things [Pablo Escobar] did, but rather to demonstrate the context of his situation and the reason for his actions, for which only he is responsible for. I think it was very difficult for him to try to bring down the very criminal organization that he had created and by the time he wanted to stop, he was unable to.” ThinkingTryingReasonActionWantedDifficultSituationOrganizationResponsibleCriminalsJustificationPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.” PeopleWayImportantPastFatherDrugDealerDrug DealersLearn From The PastPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I am not allowed to enter American territory simply because I was born the son of Pablo Escobar and apparently that implies that I inherit my father's crimes. Not that I want a visa now, I don't care anymore, I have been to the United States before.” WantHas BeensStatesCareFatherBornUnitedUnited StatesCrimeSonDon't CareI Don't CareTerritoryVisaPablo EscobarDon't Care AnymoreI Don't Care Anymore Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I knew something was wrong that day, he made the mistakes [Pablo Escobar] had never committed throughout the last 10 years as the most wanted man in the world in one day. He never used the phone, he only did the day he was killed.” MenWorldYearsMadeWantedLastsUsedMistakeOne DayPhonesCommittedMost WantedPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“[Pablo Escobar] always told me that the day he used the phone would be his last day, something I had very clear while I was talking to him.” Would BeLastsUsedTalkingClearPhonesLast DayTalking To HimPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“It's very difficult to resort to hating [Pablo Escobar] when all he gave you his entire life was love and all the best he ever had.” HateDifficultResortsAll The BestPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“[My father] would be proud, he would hug me and he would be sitting front-row at all the events where I talk to the youth about not repeating [Pablo Escobar's] story because I am a consequence of what he did and I have not changed my stance on violence since we talked about it.” StoriesWould BeFatherViolenceFrontsEventsChangedYouthProudSittingConsequenceHugBe ProudStanceHug MePablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
