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Pablo Escobar's final hours and the mistake that revealed his location to agents
2025-12-03 09:45:08 / MISTERE&KURIOZITETE
At dawn on a warm, humid day in the Los Olivos neighborhood of Bogotá, the fate of the man who had dominated the global cocaine trade for nearly two decades, Pablo Escobar Gaviria, ended. The former leader of the Medellín cartel, now a fugitive pursued by everyone, including rivals of the Cali cartel, the Colombian special forces unit Search Bloc, and DEA agents, was found and killed in a coordinated special forces operation.
American agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña had been tracking Escobar's satellite phone signals for years. On December 2, the telecommunications monitoring van finally picked up his voice as he accepted birthday wishes from family members on his 44th birthday.
Technicians located the address in Los Olivos, immediately activating the elite Search Bloc units. When special forces surrounded the area, Escobar realized he had been discovered. Together with his last bodyguard, John “Limon” Burgos, he tried to escape through the roof. The gunfight was short and intense. “Limon” was hit first, while Escobar, barefoot and armed, was wounded several times as he attempted to jump from one roof to another.
A final bullet, reportedly fired by a special forces sniper, struck him in the head, leaving him dead on the terrace of a neighboring house. DEA agent Steve Murphy, who had been following the operation from a distance as an observer, arrived at his body moments later. Colombian commandos erupted in cheers, celebrating the end of the man long considered the country's greatest threat. The famous photograph of Escobar's body, with Murphy and Search Bloc officers at his side, immediately went viral.
Meanwhile, on the buses of Medellín, citizens celebrated the news. But on the same public transport, Emilda Gaviria, Escobar’s mother, heard the announcement on a portable radio and burst into tears. Her reaction contrasted with the joy of the other passengers. After the operation was completed, Murphy called his close partner, Javier Peña. On the other end of the line, only two words were heard: “It’s over, Javier.” Peña, who was alone in a bar, watched on television images of the body of the man who once declared: “Sometimes I feel like God. I say someone has to die and he dies.” On December 2, Escobar himself did not escape this logic.
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