Sebastián Marroquín

Juan Pablo Escobar

Sebastián Marroquín (born Juan Pablo Escobar Henao , born February 24, 1977 in Medellín , Colombia ) is a Colombian architect and author. Today he is mainly known as the son of the notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar and published a book in 2014 called Pablo Escobar - Mi Padre ( German : Pablo Escobar - My Father ).

Life

Marroquín was born in Medellín and grew up in his father's Hacienda Nápoles . In his childhood he was sent to a Montessori kindergarten . In 1984 he and his family had to flee to Panama after the murder of the then Colombian Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla , who had been commissioned by his father . It was there that his father told him for the first time that he was a "bandit" by profession. He later fled to Germany with his mother and sister, the plane landed at Frankfurt Airport on November 27, 1993 , but here they were turned away, so they had to return to Colombia. Back in Colombia, they stayed in a hotel in the capital Bogotá . After the violent death of his father, drug cartels stole all of his family's assets as "compensation", after which he and his family tried in vain to get asylum in Bogotá. A subsequent application to the Vatican was also unsuccessful. He then changed his name to his current name in order to increase his chances of being accepted into a sovereign state. Eventually his family received asylum in Mozambique , but due to the catastrophic conditions caused by the civil war , he emigrated to Argentina a short time later , where he still lives today.

Marroquín graduated in architecture in Argentina and now lives in Palermo Soho (Buenos Aires) . He is now married, has a son and works as an architect. In 2009 he spoke extensively in the documentary Pecados de mi padre ( German : The Sins of My Father ) about his father Pablo Escobar and also met with the children of those who fell victim to his father. In 2014 the book Pablo Escobar - Mi Padre was published , in which he writes about life with his father. He and his family still earn money by selling clothes with the name and likeness of his father, and Marroquín has also tried three times to have the name Pablo Escobar protected under trademark law, but this was rejected. Marroquín announced that part of the profit will go to charitable organizations. In 2017 the second book was published with the title Pablo Escobar - Lo que mi padre nunca me contó ( German : Pablo Escobar - What my father never told me ).

In his father's footsteps

Sebastián Marroquín often distanced himself from his father's deeds, and he also refuses to be glorified. He does not aim to rebuild the Medellín cartel , but it is a challenge for him every day not to follow in his father's footsteps. He himself says: “To get up every day, not as a Pablo Escobar 2.0, but as a man of peace. It's a daily challenge. "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "My father drove love and hate to extremes" on faz.net , accessed on October 1, 2018
2. ↑ "He taught me: The telephone is death" on n-tv.de , accessed on October 1, 2018
3. ^ Son of Pablo Escobar visits Mallorca on mallorcamagazin.com