Our review of the documentary Pablo Escobar, the hunt for the drug lord on RMC Story

“The only thing he feared was extradition to the United States. He understood he couldn’t corrupt the American system“Explains Joe Toft, former head of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), the anti-narcotics agency, facing the camera, in the unpublished documentary by Michael Driscoll Pablo Escobar: Hunt for the Drug Lord. A detailed film that gives voice to American agents who fought the drug trafficker shot dead by Colombian special forces on December 2, 1993 in Medellin.

Texas sheriff sent to Colombia

The film shows why Pablo Escobar had become the number one enemy of the United States. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Americans consumed more than $20 billion worth of cocaine per year. However, the boss of the Medellin cartel provides more than 80% of this white powder. President Ronald Reagan says: “Despite our best efforts, cocaine is entering our country at an alarming level“.

The DEA then recruits new agents, police officers who change their lives, start working undercover to infiltrate the networks of traffickers. Like Javier Pena, a Texan sheriff sent to Colombia to lend a hand to the local police. Or Steve Murphy, originally from Tennessee, who begins his mission in Miami, a hub used by the cartel, before joining Javier Pena.

Extradition Treaty

Faced with thousands of murders, including of judges, the Colombian Supreme Court in 1987 abolished the extradition treaty signed with Reagan in 1981. “Rather the grave in Colombia than the prison in the United States“, proclaimed Pablo Escobar. The first solution will eventually prevail.

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