From Colombia

Some months ago I went to the New York Fire Department store in Manhattan to buy some stuff for my brother and my nephew, who are firemen in Bogota, Colombia; and the clerk told me he had read a book about Pablo Escobar and asked me whether the drug dealer was as bad as he is said to be or was good as some people say. I responded to the clerk, from my point of view, Escobar was evil and the help he provided the poor did not by far reimburse his criminal acts. The point is that when non-Colombian people around the world learn you are Colombian most of them think immediately of drug traffic and Pablo Emilio Escobar, known also as El Patron (The Boss). It is a sentence or curse we Colombians have had to bear due to the huge illegal exportation and extraordinary profitable cocaine business in the last decades, especially in the 80´s, and the news, books, movies and series made about Escobar´s life and death. One of those movies is a documentary named ´Pablo Escobar, angel or demon´, from