On January 30, 1993, a car loaded with 220 pounds of high explosives was remotely detonated outside a busy shopping center in downtown Bogota. It killed 20 shoppers including four children. On January 15, Escobar had made a declaration of war claiming that he was going to bomb the city every day until he was granted his rights as a citizen. As Escobar's sicarios started falling, so did the car bombs. He would eventually lose everyone who did dirty deeds for him. Unfortunately for Gaviria, the country had to bear many innocent lives as collateral damage for the war on Escobar.