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0:00:29 > 0:00:32GUNFIRE, EXPLOSIONS
0:00:38 > 0:00:40ENGINE HUMS
0:00:47 > 0:00:49GUNSHOTS
0:01:15 > 0:01:17HIPPO PANTS
0:01:25 > 0:01:29- Grandpa, grandpa!- I'm coming.- Some more humans walking by the lake!
0:01:29 > 0:01:31- I'm...coming! - GRANDPA GROANS
0:01:34 > 0:01:36What is it, little one?
0:01:36 > 0:01:41Humans are coming towards the lake. I think they have weapons.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Don't you worry about the humans.
0:01:43 > 0:01:48They are silly creatures. They only come to look and admire us.
0:01:48 > 0:01:53Most of them have never seen anything as big and powerful as us.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56It is only natural that they stare.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00There was a time when there were none of our kind here.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04A great beast brought us all here.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34El Patron was a fantastic beast.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37He brought us all here to the Garden of Eden.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Or, as the humans call it...
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Hacienda Napoles.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45He was feared by the males and loved by the females.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47A true alpha male.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50And it takes one to know one.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Next!
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Pablo was the sort of person that could have anyone.
0:06:54 > 0:07:00When a journalist asked him, of all the women in the world, which would he would most like to sleep with,
0:07:00 > 0:07:03the answer was one that shook him, which was, "Margaret Thatcher."
0:07:03 > 0:07:09The fact that he couldn't have Margaret Thatcher probably has a lot to do with his answer.
0:07:13 > 0:07:18I don't know whether there's a link to the elephant that's called Maggie.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Ah! Those were the days.
0:07:47 > 0:07:53El Patron made sure I had everything. Everything I wanted, I ate.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Sometimes I had 12 lunches a day.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00And there was always someone there to clean up after me.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Good service back then.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Take one stop closer, little beast.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Go ahead and make my day!
0:10:05 > 0:10:09I mean, there are some people who say they saw one.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Then a couple of months later they saw another one.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15Then some people say they saw one floating down the river, dead.
0:10:15 > 0:10:21So I think no-one really knows how many there are out in the wild
0:10:21 > 0:10:24or in the river, upstream or downstream.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50They will never contain us!
0:10:50 > 0:10:55I would like to see them try to stop me from doing what I do best.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57It is good to be alpha.
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Next!
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Why did El Patron brought us all here?
0:11:06 > 0:11:11He brought us because we were like him - powerful beasts.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13How did he get so powerful?
0:11:13 > 0:11:18Hey, you ask a lot of questions, little one.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22El Patron, he was a genius.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25He created a very special kind of herd.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28The humans, they called it El Cartel.
0:11:28 > 0:11:34And his cartel made him the seventh most powerful beast on earth.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38And, if you don't believe me, take a look at the magazine.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41- Huh? - HE CHUCKLES
0:11:59 > 0:12:03I remember my mother saying how nice these neighbours,
0:12:03 > 0:12:06which are giving us a little envelope for the Church.
0:12:06 > 0:12:12Instead of the 2 by family, they give us 1,000 in an envelope.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Drug trafficking was a novelty.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03People didn't realise what it meant
0:13:03 > 0:13:08and what we were getting into as a society.
0:13:09 > 0:13:14Back in America's history, Al Capone is a famous name, a famous figure, an icon.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17And if you ask who is the modern-day equivalent,
0:13:17 > 0:13:19probably just about nobody has
0:13:19 > 0:13:23attained the notoriety in the last few decades as Pablo Escobar did.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38He did fantasise about...
0:14:38 > 0:14:44creating a brand, Escobar Cocaine, which would be distributed one day in America as cigarettes are.
0:14:44 > 0:14:49He apparently told his public relations manager, a guy called El Poeta,
0:14:49 > 0:14:51to cut out all the clippings he could about the Hell's Angels,
0:14:51 > 0:14:57because he was convinced that one day these would be his sellers of cocaine in the US.
0:14:59 > 0:15:04Like a great alpha male, El Patron's herd grew and grew.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07He had absolute control.
0:15:08 > 0:15:09Just like me.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Ah, life was good back then.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37There was a time when this place was paradise.
0:16:37 > 0:16:45Sure, the noise was a bit much - the drugs and planes coming and going, day-in and day-out.
0:16:45 > 0:16:51The occasional popping sounds and screams in the distance but, hey, we lived like kings!
0:16:51 > 0:16:54The lions,
0:16:54 > 0:16:56they had nothing on us.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Ah, how things have changed now.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06At least...it is quiet.
0:18:04 > 0:18:11We have a country that has a very, very high biodiversity, a lot of species of all kinds in Colombia.
0:18:11 > 0:18:16We can't cope with the species we have - we have enough people and enough problems.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19We have some nice people that say, well, they can take three.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Then what do we do with the other 17?
0:18:32 > 0:18:36I would think that...
0:18:36 > 0:18:41it's only a time...a problem of time till people kill them or shoot them...
0:18:41 > 0:18:43and probably eat them.
0:18:43 > 0:18:48The hippos were taken over by the government
0:18:48 > 0:18:52when they took over all the property of Pablo Escobar.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54They now belong to the government.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56The government has to find a way out.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34He was a person that understood poverty,
0:19:34 > 0:19:38and somehow he came there when the state wasn't there.
0:20:02 > 0:20:03CHEERING
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Pablo - as a congressman - has immunity.
0:20:58 > 0:21:04That's one of the benefits of being a congressman and one of the reasons he stands for Congress.
0:21:21 > 0:21:26You have a situation where major gangsters achieve such power
0:21:26 > 0:21:30that they begin to threaten and challenge the legitimate authority.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34Where the most influential - mayors, police chiefs, legislators
0:21:34 > 0:21:37and legitimate businessmen - realise they need to do business.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41Where that gangster becomes one of the most prominent people.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08In 1982, in that time I was
0:22:08 > 0:22:12correspondent of my newspaper in Europe.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15I was covering the Spanish elections.
0:22:15 > 0:22:21There was a big celebration at the Palace Hotel in Madrid.
0:22:21 > 0:22:26There was a Columbian friend who said, "Come to the table of the Colombian delegation."
0:22:26 > 0:22:31On that table was sitting this anonymous-looking guy with a moustache.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34Heavy cheeks... Very inconspicuous.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Everybody recognised that this is Pablo Escobar.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41We sat down at the table and I remember I spoke to him.
0:22:41 > 0:22:47At that time he was importing all kinds of wild animals to his farm.
0:22:47 > 0:22:54I remember I told him, "You are a very ecological guy, this is unbelievable what you are doing."
0:22:56 > 0:22:59I think they should keep here.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Protect them...
0:23:01 > 0:23:07And... Yeah, protect them and maybe use for food or...tourism.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10So many things that you can do with them.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19It seems that one hippo drowned because some fishermen saw it floating down the river.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23We also know that one hippo was electrocuted.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26And I think they ate that hippo.
0:23:40 > 0:23:45As far as I know, I've never heard of hippos being raised for meat.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48It is not at all a current practice.
0:24:16 > 0:24:22- Who's in charge of us now? - No-one is in charge of us! Especially not the humans.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25They take every problem and make it worse.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28They are dumb creatures, brains the size of mangoes.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31How big is your brain, Grandpa?
0:24:31 > 0:24:35I don't know, I've never seen it...
0:24:35 > 0:24:37But it must be huge.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Look at the size of my head.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43President Reagan is in Miami, stepping up his campaign against
0:24:43 > 0:24:47America's most flourishing underground industry, drug smuggling.
0:24:47 > 0:24:53South Florida is the funnel for massive illegal imports of cocaine and marijuana from South America.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00In the early 1980s,
0:25:00 > 0:25:06President Reagan declared a global sort of attack on the international drug trade.
0:25:06 > 0:25:11We mean to end their profits, imprison their members and cripple their organisations.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14The Colombian government signed an extradition treaty
0:25:14 > 0:25:16with the United States in 1982.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18My father was a very young politician.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22And with Luis Carlos Galan...
0:25:22 > 0:25:27they start a new political party, which is Nuevo Liberalismo - New Liberalism.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31And he was appointed Justice Minister in 1983.
0:25:39 > 0:25:44My father tried to extradite several drug traffickers.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48But the President, Mr Betancur, refused to extradite,
0:25:48 > 0:25:54because he thought that all Colombians should be judged here in Colombia, not in the United States.
0:25:54 > 0:25:59So my father starts to fight Pablo Escobar and all his organisation.
0:25:59 > 0:26:07He was at the point of opening a judicial case against politicians involved with the Cartel of Medellin.
0:27:04 > 0:27:10He never recognised he had committed a crime, he had done anything wrong.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14He always say he was not a narco trafficker.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16It was incredible.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19The problem was, many people believed him.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23Big debate against Lara, it was the speaker of the house.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26They had to preside with that debate.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Escobar was in that session.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31It was a terrible session.
0:27:31 > 0:27:36Escobar got in with people with arms, it was a very terrible moment.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47My father, he knew that he was in danger.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49He knew that he could get killed at any moment.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53We were planning to leave the country, to Czechoslovakia.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56He thought he would be safe there.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25GUNSHOTS
0:28:36 > 0:28:40We all know that Pablo Escobar and the cartel killed my father.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Everybody knows that.
0:28:42 > 0:28:49But actually, we don't have it judicially true, because the judge was a shot,
0:28:49 > 0:28:53the witnesses were shot and the lawyer was shot.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55So...
0:29:15 > 0:29:18This country never really thought that these people were that bad
0:29:18 > 0:29:20or that this was a big problem
0:29:20 > 0:29:24until they killed Rodrigo Lara.
0:29:42 > 0:29:44Like all great alpha males,
0:29:44 > 0:29:48El Patron was surrounded by dangerous animals.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51He had to defend himself.
0:29:51 > 0:29:57Just like me. I take care of you and I take care of the herd.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00I have always protected the lake.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03HE ROARS
0:30:47 > 0:30:52I think that if somebody was killed by a hippo so that the
0:30:52 > 0:30:56Colombian government would take interest on this issue.
0:30:56 > 0:30:59I think it would probably help but it wouldn't be enough.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01I think we would need quite a few to be killed.
0:31:01 > 0:31:04So many Colombians die and for so many strange reasons
0:31:04 > 0:31:08that we can't even know if there are some hippo reasons in there.
0:32:01 > 0:32:04Pablo is somebody who is dedicated,
0:32:04 > 0:32:11from the moment the extradition treaty was put into place in the early 80s, to bringing it down.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27It was very difficult to get an order from a judge.
0:33:27 > 0:33:34It was almost impossible to get a condemnation sentence to condemn any narco trafficker.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48Why do they want to take us away from here, Grandpa?
0:33:48 > 0:33:50Because they are jealous.
0:33:50 > 0:33:57They wanted to do the same with El Patron, they wanted to take him away to a kind of zoo in a far away land.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00Do the humans want to put us in a zoo?
0:34:00 > 0:34:02They won't while I'm alive!
0:34:02 > 0:34:09Like El Patron said - I would rather have a tomb here in the lake than a cage...
0:34:09 > 0:34:11somewhere else...
0:34:11 > 0:34:13Where ever that is!
0:34:30 > 0:34:32GUNSHOTS
0:34:39 > 0:34:41Escobar bombed the newspapers.
0:34:41 > 0:34:45He assassinated from reporters to editors to publishers.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02GUNSHOTS
0:35:10 > 0:35:16Escobar began a culture of kids serving drug traffickers,
0:35:16 > 0:35:19killing themselves or killing others
0:35:19 > 0:35:26just because of drugs or money to save the life of their parents
0:35:26 > 0:35:27or their neighbourhood.
0:36:15 > 0:36:22We must watch our backs, there is always someone who wants to take what you have.
0:36:22 > 0:36:26There was always someone lurking nearby trying to stop El Patron,
0:36:26 > 0:36:30and they were always sorry they did.
0:36:34 > 0:36:39We had Cali, and the Cali Cartel trying to kill Escobar, so we had this other enemy.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03He didn't care. The people he killed - were they enemies or not.
0:37:03 > 0:37:10Some of the people he killed had already met him, compromised with him that they were
0:37:10 > 0:37:14going to behave well with him and they kill them anyway.
0:37:14 > 0:37:21And we had a siege, a society that was totally frightened about what was going on.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48In the 80s I met with Carlos Galan.
0:37:48 > 0:37:54What country would we have today if Galan would have been President of Colombia?
0:37:54 > 0:37:56Maybe none of these would have happened.
0:38:06 > 0:38:11Galan represented the hope for a new Colombia.
0:38:11 > 0:38:14He was a guy who really connected with the youth.
0:38:14 > 0:38:18Very outspoken against a drug traffickers from the beginning.
0:38:18 > 0:38:20Galan could not be bought.
0:38:20 > 0:38:26So Escobar and his cronies knew that Galan as a President, they would have a real problem.
0:38:54 > 0:38:56He was killed.
0:38:56 > 0:38:59We were all a bunch of kids at the time.
0:38:59 > 0:39:03We just had to go on with a new candidate.
0:39:05 > 0:39:12So they killed the illusion and the possibilities of a country to change after such violence.
0:39:12 > 0:39:16His assassination really traumatised Colombian society.
0:39:16 > 0:39:22The biggest mass demonstrations of Colombians in the street were after Galan's assassination.
0:39:26 > 0:39:28And when he killed Galan,
0:39:28 > 0:39:31then I had to take the candidacy of that movement.
0:39:31 > 0:39:36And came probably the most terrible period of the Colombian society,
0:39:36 > 0:39:41where he blew up a building of the agency of security of Colombia.
0:39:41 > 0:39:43He brought down a plane.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55He brought down that plane with the idea of killing me.
0:40:04 > 0:40:08At that time, Pablo is effectively trying to destabilise the country.
0:40:08 > 0:40:13To create a clear link between extradition and bombs.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17In the campaign where we had six presidential candidates, he killed three.
0:40:17 > 0:40:23It was really a threat to Colombian democracy and Colombian institutions.
0:40:23 > 0:40:26He really got to intimidate Colombian society.
0:40:26 > 0:40:31The killing of Carlos Galan, the killing of Pardo Leal.
0:40:31 > 0:40:35The killing of three presidential candidates
0:40:35 > 0:40:39all brings the government effectively to its knees.
0:40:48 > 0:40:54You know, that represents a threat to the sovereign authority of the state,
0:40:54 > 0:40:57not by a political insurgency but
0:40:57 > 0:41:04by what I'd call economic insurgency that is fighting for ever greater power and profits.
0:41:04 > 0:41:07It doesn't happen very often in most countries.
0:41:09 > 0:41:16Many people took a lot of risk through those years, and many people just lost their lives.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26We will not be caught alive, that's for sure.
0:42:26 > 0:42:32And it's going to take more than a few men with cameras to take us from here.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00A small group was well trained. The best intelligence,
0:43:00 > 0:43:04the support of the Americans, the support of the British, the support of the Israelis.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06All that was put together.
0:43:55 > 0:43:58A number of people who've been against Pablo over the years
0:43:58 > 0:44:03begin to provide information to the Columbian justice system.
0:46:13 > 0:46:16They really grind down the Colombian people too a point where
0:46:16 > 0:46:21they will accept anything to end the bombs, to end the violence.
0:46:53 > 0:46:58It's only on the day that he does get what he wants that he eventually hands himself in.
0:47:16 > 0:47:20The head of the world's biggest cocaine smuggling organisation,
0:47:20 > 0:47:23Pablo Escobar, has given himself up to the Colombian authorities
0:47:23 > 0:47:26in what he calls an act of peace.
0:47:26 > 0:47:31He surrendered after it was decided to ban the extradition of Colombia nationals to the United States.
0:47:31 > 0:47:36Escobar is wanted in the United States for murder and drug trafficking.
0:49:04 > 0:49:07I wrote a column saying,
0:49:07 > 0:49:15how is it possible that this guy who's in prison and can have orgies with bras and German beer?
0:49:15 > 0:49:19Three days later I received a letter saying, "Look, Enrique,
0:49:19 > 0:49:23"I don't remember ever inviting you to any of my parties.
0:49:23 > 0:49:30"I want you to know that the women there were our wives and there were no German beer served.
0:49:30 > 0:49:35"Pablo Escobar." I received a letter like this - Holy Christ!
0:49:37 > 0:49:40I published an retraction in recognition that
0:49:40 > 0:49:45at that party, the women are the respectable wives of the detainees
0:49:45 > 0:49:52and that it was not German beer but Dutch beer, because the bottles were Heineken.
0:49:57 > 0:50:04As usually happens with mafia, he just was unable to get out of crime.
0:50:38 > 0:50:42He kept, er, kidnapping people, killing people.
0:50:42 > 0:50:49And at the end, he was bringing people to that jail and killing them inside the jail.
0:51:01 > 0:51:05The one thing I learned from El Patron,
0:51:05 > 0:51:09it is better to be feared than loved! Grrr!
0:52:10 > 0:52:17We knew through the Attorney General that Escobar was committing these crimes.
0:52:17 > 0:52:22We took the decision to move him from that prison to a prison in Bogota.
0:52:40 > 0:52:46And it was a very strange thing, how that order started to be
0:52:46 > 0:52:50slowed down, slowed down and slowed down into the night.
0:52:50 > 0:52:57And then some very stupid thing happened, that he sent the civilians to talk to Escobar,
0:52:57 > 0:53:00which was totally incomprehensible, how that happened.
0:53:39 > 0:53:46He has a capacity of intimidation, that he will just walk to
0:53:46 > 0:53:51the soldiers of the brigade, and they were so intimidated that he just walked away.
0:53:51 > 0:53:55The United States has said it's appalled at the escape from prison
0:53:55 > 0:53:58in Colombia of the drugs baron Pablo Escobar.
0:53:58 > 0:54:03He and nine other members of the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel
0:54:03 > 0:54:06were being transferred to a military base when they disappeared.
0:54:10 > 0:54:16We discovered that Escobar could have escaped almost any day, at any time, he could just walk away.
0:54:16 > 0:54:20I don't understand, how did he escape from the zoo?
0:54:20 > 0:54:25You have to remember that humans are a coward breed.
0:54:25 > 0:54:28There was no-one brave enough to stop him.
0:54:28 > 0:54:31He owned the place!
0:54:31 > 0:54:34Ah, you should have seen him.
0:54:34 > 0:54:40El Patron had tusks the size of tree trunks!
0:54:40 > 0:54:46There had been other people who had organisations as big or as powerful as his, but he was
0:54:46 > 0:54:48the one who emerged at the time when
0:54:48 > 0:54:54America was focused on the drug war like never before and never since.
0:54:56 > 0:55:01Symbolically, it was very important for everyone just to get rid of him.
0:55:01 > 0:55:05He went back to his heart, back to war.
0:55:05 > 0:55:10But in a faraway land, there was another alpha.
0:55:10 > 0:55:13Huh, this one didn't look like it, but he was
0:55:13 > 0:55:16a very powerful beast.
0:55:16 > 0:55:18This is crack cocaine,
0:55:18 > 0:55:23seized a few days ago by drug enforcement agents
0:55:23 > 0:55:27in a park just across the street from the White House.
0:55:27 > 0:55:32And our message to the drug cartels is this - the rules have changed.
0:55:38 > 0:55:44The United States only got involved when it was a defiance to democracy in Latin America.
0:55:44 > 0:55:48And somehow, Escobar thought he could defy that.
0:57:34 > 0:57:37We had 15 people dying every weekend
0:57:37 > 0:57:43in Medellin younger than 15, and we had a policeman practically a day.
0:58:19 > 0:58:24No matter how crazy it was, El Patron never stopped thinking about us.
0:58:24 > 0:58:26We were one herd,
0:58:26 > 0:58:27we just had
0:58:27 > 0:58:29to lay low.
0:58:56 > 0:58:58Those days were dark days.
0:58:58 > 0:59:01Things were changing fast.
0:59:01 > 0:59:04He gave me this, so I would never forget him.
0:59:06 > 0:59:08We look alike, no?
0:59:08 > 0:59:10If only I had a moustache.
1:00:04 > 1:00:06El Patron was forced to go into hiding.
1:00:06 > 1:00:09Many of the animals did not survive.
1:00:09 > 1:00:13Some ran off with their tails between their legs, never to be seen again.
1:00:13 > 1:00:20The elephants were stolen by a circus, and God only knows what happened to those noisy giraffes.
1:00:20 > 1:00:24Huh, I think they were eaten by humans!
1:00:24 > 1:00:28But not us, we stayed here and we thrived.
1:00:28 > 1:00:33I knew it was up to us to carry on El Patron's herd.
1:00:33 > 1:00:35Next!
1:00:42 > 1:00:48They can be sold as the hippopotamus Escobares,
1:00:48 > 1:00:53or something like that, for certain zoos, or they can be sold for people
1:00:53 > 1:00:57that want to have a hippopotamus on their farm somewhere.
1:00:57 > 1:01:04Or they can be... you can organise some
1:01:04 > 1:01:08sophisticated and very expensive safaris
1:01:08 > 1:01:11and have people come and shoot them.
1:01:15 > 1:01:18Anything. I mean, we have a problem with those hippos
1:01:18 > 1:01:20and we have to get rid of them.
1:01:39 > 1:01:41How do you get rid of a hippo?
1:01:41 > 1:01:48It's not only the amount of meat they have, it's also
1:01:48 > 1:01:50the reaction in the people.
1:01:50 > 1:01:55People don't mind if you go and hit a frog over the head, or if you
1:01:55 > 1:02:02go and poison a couple of insects, but if you go and shoot a hippo, then everyone's going to react.
1:02:02 > 1:02:05Are we really so dangerous?
1:02:05 > 1:02:09We can be. But we are nothing compared to the humans.
1:02:09 > 1:02:12We only attack when we are forced to.
1:02:12 > 1:02:15They, they are a vicious species.
1:02:15 > 1:02:17Blood is in their blood.
1:02:17 > 1:02:19Not El Patron though.
1:02:19 > 1:02:22He was like us, he only killed
1:02:22 > 1:02:29when it was absolutely necessary, and he never took pride in it.
1:05:34 > 1:05:39I was told that they were certain they had been killed by the Bloque
1:05:39 > 1:05:43de Busqueda, and then the other information came through the radio.
1:05:43 > 1:05:48That always happens in Colombia. If you want to be well informed, it's better that you hear the radio...
1:05:48 > 1:05:52than wait for the authorities to tell you!
1:05:56 > 1:06:00First of all, it's a very strange sensation, because I was,
1:06:00 > 1:06:04I was very satisfied, but I could not show to be happy.
1:06:04 > 1:06:07You could not look to the people that you were happy because you'd
1:06:07 > 1:06:10killed someone, no matter that it was the worst criminal.
1:06:10 > 1:06:13It was quite a strange feeling.
1:06:59 > 1:07:03I still remember the day he died.
1:07:03 > 1:07:05Part of me died that day too.
1:07:07 > 1:07:12In my heart, I knew it would happen eventually,
1:07:12 > 1:07:17but part of me thought he would live forever!
1:07:17 > 1:07:22Since that day, life has been tough here at the lake,
1:07:22 > 1:07:25but we will prevail!
1:07:25 > 1:07:29They will never take us away from here!
1:07:30 > 1:07:32Argh!
1:07:32 > 1:07:33Grandpa!
1:07:33 > 1:07:35Argh!
1:11:47 > 1:11:52We have to get rid of the animals some way or another, so if somebody
1:11:52 > 1:11:56turns up and says they are willing to take them, please take them.
1:12:30 > 1:12:33Grandpa, is it you?
1:12:33 > 1:12:35Are you alive?
1:12:35 > 1:12:39Oh, it doesn't work that way.
1:12:39 > 1:12:43Huh... This is nature's way, we all die.
1:12:43 > 1:12:48The lions, they call it the circle of life,
1:12:48 > 1:12:52and the humans have never been able to accept that.
1:12:52 > 1:12:58Don't worry, one alpha male will always be replaced by a new one.
1:12:58 > 1:13:00Like with El Patron.
1:13:00 > 1:13:04There will always be someone else,
1:13:04 > 1:13:09there will never be an end to this herd.
1:13:09 > 1:13:12Where are you going?!
1:13:12 > 1:13:16To see my old friend.
1:13:16 > 1:13:19It's now up to you and the others
1:13:19 > 1:13:22to continue the legacy.
1:13:53 > 1:13:57Every month, every two months, a drug lord is captured or jailed,
1:13:57 > 1:14:02or extradited to the United States, and three or four more candidates are eager to take that place.
1:14:02 > 1:14:06The problem with drug trafficking is that it always gets worse.
1:14:06 > 1:14:09I mean, it's a society that is unable to stop.
1:14:09 > 1:14:12You know? So it finds ways.
1:14:38 > 1:14:42After 40 years and billions of dollars spent,
1:14:42 > 1:14:45thousands of people killed,
1:14:45 > 1:14:48the result is that more cocaine is being produced.
1:14:48 > 1:14:52And the tragedy is that the war on drugs
1:14:52 > 1:14:54has been an utter failure.
1:14:57 > 1:15:02What we have to ask is if what we are doing is working.
1:15:02 > 1:15:04Is the policy in place effective?
1:15:15 > 1:15:19We tried everything and nothing worked.
1:15:19 > 1:15:22And we're even worse now than we were in Escobar's time.
1:15:22 > 1:15:27Maybe then it was, like, more naive, if you like.
1:15:29 > 1:15:34You know that won't finish in our country unless we
1:15:34 > 1:15:39solve the problem of drugs, and that cannot be solved just by ourselves.
1:16:20 > 1:16:25And at the end of the empire of Escobar, the only thing left really, the only thing left
1:16:25 > 1:16:28are the wild hippopotamus. There is nothing else.
1:17:50 > 1:17:53What a vision you had!
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