The confessions of a lover of Pablo Escobar after 30 years of his death

Pablo Escobar He wasn’t always a drug dealer. Before his illicit activities took off, the man was an experienced Colombian businessman who had managed to seduce a television presenter who she thought was not his type.

They met Virginia Vallejo when the boss’s name was not yet in the police news. On the other hand, almost no one knew exactly who he was, “an unknown, from the working class”, but he had participated here and there in politics and had managed to have contacts with part of the Colombian entertainment.

What is it yes, that’s it Escobar was married to Victoria Eugenia Henao, the only relationship he made public.

However, Vallejo and Escobar are said to have fallen in love, a romance she agreed upon in her book. Love Pablo, hate Escobar , where she gave details about what it was like to have an affair with one of the world’s most wanted men.

Pablo Escobar’s wife assured that she knew that her husband had extramarital affairs. For this, He classified Virginia Vallejo as “one more” of his lovers.

However, Vallejo assured in conversation with the radio To face , that the drug dealer fell in love with her So much so that he knew, before anyone else, the secrets and illicit activities that catapulted him to the head of a giant drug trafficking network.

According to the woman, she was “a high society girl” who fell in love with Escobar only because he fell in love with her first: “Otherwise, I would not have had a relationship with a lower class man. He was short, chubby and ugly. But I fell in love with its extreme security. Also, I realized he was a criminal.

“In 1984, Pablo was in hiding because he had assassinated the Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla. “He confessed it to me because he wanted me to write his biography.” revealed.

She continued to be in love with him even in this situation. According to their stories, There came a point when they considered taking refuge together until the authorities found them.

“We were in a little house hidden in the middle of the field, and we both thought that If we were surrounded by the army or the secret police, I am sure he would do it too, we would commit suicide and thus we would not suffer torture after being captured.

Vallejo broke up with him after the assassination of the Minister of Justice. However, they met again later, until In 1987, “Pablo asked a member of ETA to teach him how to make bombs. I left him there. “He started using dynamite to bring the state to its knees and eliminate extraditions.”

Regarding the image we have of Pablo Escobar 30 years after his death, the woman said that “Almost everyone deified him to make him a legend,” but they used his image as “propaganda to fill their pockets.”