Escobar’s Teenage Assassins | Facing Escobar

when I arrived in Colombia it didn’t
take me very long to realize that I
didn’t know a thing about Colombia bombs
were going off everywhere people getting
killed left and right by the time I was
there maybe a year I was obsessed with
pop I mean I had to get problem what we
hadn’t realized was that Pablo Escobar
was a very charismatic person this guy
was relying on hundreds and hundreds of
young kids working for him we hadn’t
realized that that Sicario base was so
large he’s recruiting from kids that are
14 15 16 17 years old he’s turning them
into murderers for money he’s turned
them into sicarios into assassins a
member of debrief in one OC carios I
think this kid was like 15 years old he
had already admitted to ten killings he
said you know what our life expectancy
is 21 22 years old we know we’re gonna
get killed but if we can satisfy our
boss
Escobar we can prove that we’re loyal to
him this is what we want
Pam Lewis cover had a brilliant
recruiting system because he offered not
just the chance to be somebody to have
power to have a gun
he became somebody with status in his
value he became the person who if he did
take on a job for peril and got killed
would leave his family rich and this is
part of the the almost mystical belief
and that in the escobar structure if i
do give my life my mother will be cared
for so my mother often identified with
the virgin mary the structure of
religious belief in the sanctity of a
woman she would be left rich