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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.

But for Pablo, spotters weren't enough. His son Juan Pablo admitted that his father bought his own taxi firm to find out when his enemies arrived in his hometown. He also used the cabs to move around in less obvious cartel vehicles.

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MAS ran an ad in the paper stating they wouldn’t pay and instead they offered a reward to any citizen who could provide information. They captured, tortured and left several members of M-19 in front of Medellin’s newspaper buildings with signs that read, “I’m from M-19 and I’m a kidnapper.” Needless to say, Marta was returned without any money being exchanged.

On November 12, 1981, they kidnapped Marta Ochoa, the daughter of Don Fabio from the Medellin Cartel. They initially asked for $15 million for her return, but the Cartel wasn’t having it. They formed the first paramilitary group called Muerte a Secuestradores (Death to Kidnappers) to get her back.

Pablo did have the cops in this scene killed. During his reign, he killed over 1,000 cops. In fact, the Colombian murder rate skyrocketed once the Medellin Cartel came into existence.

At first the Medellin Cartel hid it inside of car tires.