1 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:13,320 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:35,640 MAN: Hooah! 3 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:36,640 ALL: Hooah! 4 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,840 ♪ ♪ 5 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:43,520 ♪ ♪ 6 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,080 REPORTER (over TV): Shake this square world and blast off for Kicksville! 7 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,160 NIXON: Public enemy number one is drug abuse. 8 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,480 NANCY: Just say no. 9 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,840 REAGAN: Halting the drug problem in America is like 10 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,320 carrying water in a sieve. 11 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:41,160 BUSH: Take my word for it, this scourge will stop! 12 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:42,640 REPORTER 2 (over TV): There's now an understanding that the 13 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:45,520 war on drugs was an abject failure! 14 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,560 TRUMP: We will build a wall. 15 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:18,760 MARROQUIN: My name is Sebastián Marroquin. 16 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,000 I am the son of Pablo Escobar. 17 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,960 He raised me with a lot of human values, 18 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,280 with respect for life. 19 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:30,080 I grew up in a family surrounded by love. 20 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,760 Love made the difference in my life. 21 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,560 My father was perhaps one of the richest men in Colombia, 22 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,720 but we shouldn't forget how much blood was behind that money. 23 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,040 REPORTER (over TV): This all‐American group includes a teacher, 24 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,720 a nurse, a recording engineer and a photographer. 25 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,400 Ten years ago, they might have stuck to smoking marijuana, 26 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,560 but now they pass around the lines on the mirror. 27 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:45,440 MAN (over TV): Save some for the rest of us! 28 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,440 MCDERMOTT: His structure is based on two foundations. 29 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:02,000 One is extreme violence and the other is business 30 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,920 and logistical organization. 31 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,680 His capacity for violence, his ambition and 32 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,000 his smarts single him out. 33 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,480 And no one actually ever challenges Escobar's leadership. 34 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,520 MCDERMOTT: Planes would leave the jungle drug laboratories 35 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,960 laden with cocaine and begin to fly northwards. 36 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,160 And hopscotch across the Caribbean before it hit US shores. 37 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:11,800 TURNER: And that was all coming in through Miami. 38 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,960 So Miami was a distribution point. 39 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,640 And Miami became the hotbed of corruption, 40 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,120 of the cartels. 41 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:33,760 REPORTER (over TV): So this is why police in 42 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,000 south Florida are worried. 43 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,520 They are seeing more and more Colombian traffickers bring 44 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,200 their incredible brand of violence here. 45 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,520 We have had kidnappings and machine‐gun murders in broad daylight, 46 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,000 and police worry the violence will spread, 47 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,080 if steps are not taken to stop it. 48 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,840 WETLI (over TV): We have to start taking the war on drugs 49 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:56,680 very seriously. 50 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:58,200 If we don't, we're going to have something like a domestic Vietnam. 51 00:11:58,200 --> 00:11:59,560 We're either gonna fight the war and win it or we're just 52 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:00,880 gonna give up. 53 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:05,520 TURNER: United States is a patient. 54 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,640 It's got a severe cut, it's bleeding to death. 55 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:09,760 POLICEMAN (over TV): Get down! Police! 56 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:11,440 TURNER: So you gotta stop the bleeding in Miami. 57 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,440 (screaming) 58 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,160 ♪ ♪ 59 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:29,200 TURNER: Reagan came into the White House, 60 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,680 he looked at the drug issue as a detriment. 61 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:33,280 He sort of took the view of 62 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,440 "I'm the sheriff, it's my responsibility. 63 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,040 I'm gonna do what I need to do." 64 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:39,720 REAGAN (over TV): You wanted law and order in this town, 65 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:41,160 you've got it! 66 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,040 I'll shoot the first man that starts for those steps! 67 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:44,760 MAN (over TV): Come on! 68 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,800 TURNER: My name is Carlton E. Turner. 69 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,560 I was President Reagan's policy adviser from 70 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:56,400 1981 to January 1987. 71 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,320 Ronald Reagan was against drugs, period. 72 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,600 REAGAN (over TV): Thank you! 73 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:07,720 We intend to do what is necessary, 74 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,960 to end the drug menace and cripple organized crime. 75 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,160 We live at a turning point. 76 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,480 We can and will make a difference. 77 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,480 REPORTER (over TV): Miami is the source that supplies 78 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,160 two‐thirds of America's drug habit, and the target in 79 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:42,440 Mr. Reagan's crusade to get America to kick the habit. 80 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,720 TURNER: Only way you going to ever stop it is attack. 81 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:46,520 And it became a war on drugs. 82 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,360 REPORTER (over TV): It really is a war, too. 83 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,440 There's a big Air Force radar balloon checking on anybody 84 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,280 trying to run the drug blockade. 85 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,000 The army's contributed a couple of helicopters to 86 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,240 help enforce it. 87 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,200 The Navy's sent some radar plains, 88 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,640 and the coastguard has a fleet on patrol 89 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:05,880 in the Florida Straits, whilst 300 drug agents going 90 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,520 over South Florida with a fine tooth comb. 91 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,680 BUSH (over TV): 5,100 pounds of cocaine, 92 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:18,800 165 vessels seized, $5 billion in street value of drugs. 93 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,560 I mean there has been a major impact. 94 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:38,560 MARROQUIN: My father was called by the 95 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,880 Vice President of Colombia, The Da Vinci Of Crime. 96 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,120 Of course he was a very intelligent man. 97 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:48,000 The way he show his own intelligence was finding the 98 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,760 simplest solutions for the most complicated problems. 99 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:58,040 He was always imagine how the enemy was going to behave. 100 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,800 Always pushing things to the limits. 101 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:13,960 REPORTER (over TV): He's known as Pineapple Face because of th 102 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,800 smallpox scars he's carried since childhood. 103 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,920 He's a Buddhist, a multi‐millionaire, 104 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:20,840 in spite of his small army salary, 105 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:22,480 and a collector of Old Masters. 106 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:27,440 BROWNFIELD: The government of Panama, 107 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,880 which was controlled by General Manuel Noriega, 108 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:35,840 had an unfortunate tendency to accept basically any sort of 109 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,280 business relationship with any entity that could, 110 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,560 in fact, put revenue into his pockets. 111 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,240 Panama was very useful for moving up by sea, 112 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,120 for moving by air, or if you're pushing it up overland, 113 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,560 you can't get from Colombia to North America 114 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,760 without going through Panama. 115 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,360 Escobar reached out, and they establish a deal. 116 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,920 BROWNFIELD: That was how Noriega became, if you will, 117 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:18,000 a key in the, in the western hemisphere drug trafficking 118 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,240 routes and industry. 119 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:39,480 ♪ ♪ 120 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,680 MARROQUIN: My father, he had so much money. 121 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:47,000 We had our own Jurassic Park, even before Spielberg. 122 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,280 He imported, like, four hippos. 123 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,280 And now there are more than 40 in, in our country. 124 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:24,760 MARROQUIN: My father, he used to tell me he was willing to 125 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:27,240 use the drug trafficking business in favor of the 126 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,480 poorest people in Colombia. 127 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,960 ♪ ♪ 128 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,520 REPORTER (over TV): Medellín is a boom town. 129 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,120 Here the drug lords make most of their investments. 130 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:30,600 New construction, office buildings, 131 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,960 apartment complexes, shopping malls. 132 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,120 MARROQUIN: My father used to say, 133 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:42,080 "I prefer to die in Colombia than to live in a cell in the United States." 134 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,760 TURNER: Our government was pushing the 135 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:56,120 Colombian government to do more about interdicting and 136 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:58,360 about the control of narcotics. 137 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:02,520 We were looking for people that had basically a commitment. 138 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,720 TURNER: Lara Bonilla was a Minister of Justice in Colombia, 139 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,840 who basically took it to them straight on, 140 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,960 he didn't back down at all. 141 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,000 He knew what had happened to the other people that 142 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,640 opposed Pablo Escobar, but he did it anyway. 143 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,400 ♪ ♪ 144 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:14,360 ♪ ♪ 145 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,560 REPORTER (over TV): It took satellite surveillance to 146 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,760 tell the Colombian government that the dense Amazon Rainfores 147 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:39,440 was playing host to the world's biggest cocaine factory 148 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,320 The jungle is scarred with the new airstrip and buildings of 149 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,640 what the drug barons call Tranquilandia. 150 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,480 REPORTER (over TV): When the troops arrived, 151 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,320 they found a self‐contained town, 152 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,600 built by Colombia's cocaine mafia, 153 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,760 and capable of producing severa tons of the drug each week. 154 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,280 The drug processors left in such haste that a light plane 155 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,680 was left abandoned, camouflaged between the trees, 156 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,440 a sign of the growing sophistication of the drugs industry. 157 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:29,680 ♪ ♪ 158 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,000 TURNER: Lara Bonilla was a crusader, 159 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,880 and he didn't back down. 160 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,320 And they knew that the only way to stop him was to kill him. 161 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,640 ♪ ♪ 162 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:34,680 ♪ ♪ 163 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,440 (gunshots) 164 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,880 TURNER: I lost a friend. 165 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,400 We began to realize, in the US, and in Colombia, 166 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,240 that the cartels had amassed tremendous power. 167 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:34,720 Think about someone assassinating the 168 00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:36,600 Attorney‐General of the United States, 169 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,000 it just doesn't happen. 170 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:36,240 ♪ ♪ 171 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,080 REPORTER (over TV): Police and army units found a new vigor 172 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,240 for a series of country‐wide raids, 173 00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:59,280 and hundreds were arrested. 174 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,640 Most of them were relatively small‐timers. 175 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,440 The barons of the cocaine traffic had gone to ground. 176 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,640 ♪ ♪ 177 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,480 REPORTER (over TV): M‐19 carried out its most 178 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,880 spectacular operation in 1980, when it seized the 179 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,320 Dominican Embassy in Bogota, and held hostage an 180 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,840 army of foreign diplomats. 181 00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:58,960 REPORTER (over TV): Ana Cecilia Cartagena was 182 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,680 a Medellín judge, who worked hard to imprison drug dealers. 183 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,560 For that, she was murdered, shot in the head as she drove 184 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,040 up to this intersection after leaving a workshop, 185 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,080 sponsored by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration 186 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,000 (gunshots) 187 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:44,080 (gunshots) 188 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,800 (gunshots) 189 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,720 QUIÑONES (over TV): Three, two, one. 190 00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:16,880 This morning, the Judicial Palace is still smoldering, 191 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,440 but there is still no word on how many guerrillas or 192 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,560 hostages are dead or alive. 193 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,320 The standoff continues. 194 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,800 John Quiñones, ABC News, Bogotá. 195 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,600 (gunshots and explosions) 196 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:40,840 MAN: My uncle told him, 197 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,040 "You piece of garbage. One of us has to die." 198 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,240 MAN 2: Every person he wanted to kill, he killed. 199 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:53,200 REPORTER (over TV): In the city of Medellín yesterday, 200 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,560 four powerful bombs were sent. 201 00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,160 REPORTER 2 (over TV): This is the terror. 202 00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,960 A ruthless campaign of car bombs, grenades, 203 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:01,640 hit squad assassinations. 204 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,200 MAN 3: What he did to the Colombian people, 205 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,000 he was behind thousands of deaths. 206 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,280 Captioned by Cotter Captioning Services.