With money from drug trafficking, the Cali Cartel corrupted the Colombian justice system and helped to bring down Pablo Escobar.

Judge Ana Cecilia Cartagena was assassinated in Medellín by Pablo Escobar’s hitmen.

Colombian Congress approves the extradition treaty signed between Colombia and the United States in 1979 and includes it in Law 27/1980.

Pablo Escobar’s political career started on the streets of Medellín and reached its peak when he obtained a seat in the Chamber of Representatives. Paradoxically, this promotion meant the end of his aspirations. Colombia could not have a drug trafficker making laws.

Around 203 drug traffickers participated in the creation of the Muerte a Secuestradores group, which ordered dozens of crimes to avenge and stop the kidnapping of influential and wealthy people.

The hitmen were responsible for attacking politicians, police officers, judges, journalists, lawyers and civilians in the middle of the narcoterrorism war in the 1980s and 1990s.

Hired killers of the Medellín Cartel ended the minister of justice’s life for daring to connect Pablo Escobar with drug trafficking and for disclosing other truths.

Magistrate Álvaro Medina Ochoa was assassinated after taking the first measures to arrest Pablo Escobar.

Judge Tulio Manuel Castro Gil, responsible for the investigation into the homicide of Minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was assassinated in Bogotá.

The Palace of Justice siege by the M-19 guerilla group, was one of the most violent episodes in Colombian history. During the confrontation with the military forces, there were killings, tortures and abductions.

Magistrate Hernando Baquero was assassinated for being the main supporter and writer of the Extradition Treaty.

On September 17, 1986, journalist Raúl Echavarría Barrientos was assassinated by the passenger on a motorcycle in front of his house in San Fernando neighborhood in south Cali. The deputy director of the Diario de Occidente newspaper was a staunch critic of drug trafficking.

On October 30, 1986, Magistrate Gustavo Zuluaga Serna was assassinated by three hitmen who shot him seven times when he was traveling in his vehicle with his wife Carmelita Valencia de Zuluaga down Bolivariana Avenue in west Medellín.  His wife, who was eight months pregnant, was shot three times and was taken to Conquistadores Clinic, where she recovered.

Between 1986 and 1991, Colombian drug traffickers exhausted every means to avoid being extradited. As well as influencing legal decisions, they planted tens of car bombs and killed politicians, judges, journalists, police officers and citizens to destabilize the country.

Colonel Jaime Ramírez Gómez led important operations against drug trafficking. His resolve and refusal to participate in corruption led to his assassination by the Medellín Cartel.

The Medellín Cartel silenced this journalist, who was the first to publish the background of the alternate congress member, Pablo Escobar, and link him to drug trafficking.

Ambassador Enrique Parejo González was attacked by a man who shot him outside his residence in Budapest.

The drug trafficker Carlos Lehder Rivas was extradited to the USA after being arrested in Eastern Antioquia. He was the first member of The Extraditables group to go on trial in the USA.

The presidential candidate Jaime Pardo Leal, one of the most protected men of the country, was assassinated by extreme right-wing groups as part of a plan to eliminate the Patriotic Union.

The attack on the building where the drug trafficker Pablo Escobar lived was ordered by the Cali Cartel starting the war between two drug cartels.

The captors sent by Pablo Escobar kidnapped him at his political office. With this act, they wanted to pressure the government to ban extradition to the USA.

Thanks to citizen collaboration and the exchange of the police officer Roberto de Jesús Zapata, Andrés Pastrana returned to freedom. Moments later the officer was released.

He was attacked close to José María Córdova Airport and remained kidnapped for more than six hours with serious injuries. He was murdered on Pablo Escobar’s orders.

Pablo Escobar ordered an attack against El Colombiano newspaper in Medellín.

With the fire at one of the Drogas la Rebaja pharmacies, the Medellín Cartel started a new form of terrorism that exacerbated the war between these two organizations dedicated to drug trafficking.

The lawyer on the homicide case of the journalist Guillermo Cano who demonstrated Pablo Escobar’s involvement in the crime was murdered by the Medellín Cartel.

The Medellín Cartel ordered the detonation of a car bomb against General Miguel Maza Márquez, Director of the DAS.

When he was on his way to a security council meeting, he was the victim of a car bomb that was meant for police colonel Valdemar Franklin.

Hitmen of the Medellín Cartel assassinated the judge, who was leading several proceedings against Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha.

In light of the impossibility of protecting society against terrorist attacks, there was a series of restrictions in Medellín, which led to new attacks.

After several frustrated attempts, the Medellín Cartel murdered the liberal politician in an attack at Plaza de Soacha.

The Extraditables assassinated the commander of the Antioquia Police. The operations he led against drug trafficking and his opposition to paramilitary forces cost him his life.

The Extraditables detonated a bomb in front of the Pintuco warehouse in Medellín.

On September 2, 1989, at 6:43 am, a truck loaded with 55 kg of dynamite exploded in the Guadalupe gas station, next to the El Espectador headquarters in west Bogotá.

The former mayor of Medellín and CEO of Holasa, Pablo Peláez González, was assassinated upon the order of the city’s drug traffickers.

In Medellín, The Extraditables murdered the newspaper’s circulation manager, which became a target because of its critical position about drug trafficking.

Her homicide was part of the Medellín Cartel’s aim to censor the newspaper. She was murdered when she entered her home in El Poblado neighborhood for being one of the managers of this media agency.

A car bomb loaded with approximately 100 kg of dynamite exploded outside the headquarters of the Vanguardia Liberal newspaper in Bucaramanga.

Due to his support of extradition, the magistrate of the Criminal Court of the High Court of Medellín, Héctor Jiménez Rodríguez, was assassinated.

The magistrate of the High Court of Medellín was murdered by The Extraditables after receiving threats and surviving a bomb planted in her vehicle.

Journalist Jorge Enrique Pulido was assassinated by Pablo Escobar’s hitmen for his opposition to drug trafficking.

A bomb planted by Los Extraditables exploded on flight 203 to Cali with the aim to murder the presidential candidate César Gaviria, who did not take the flight.

At 7:30 am on December 6, 1989, a bus loaded with 500 kg of blasting gelatin exploded in front of the east side of the DAS building in Bogotá.

In an operation by the Colombian police’s Cuerpo Élite, the drug trafficker Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, one of the leaders of the Medellín Cartel, was taken down.

The national government created this institution to give opportunities to the most vulnerable sectors of Medellín, which were stigmatized because of drug trafficking.

A truck transporting members of the Colombian Police’s Cuerpo Élite was attacked by a car bomb near El Pandequeso Bridge.

Men working at Pablo Escobar’s service detonated a car bomb in the Quirigua neighborhood in Bogotá. The victims were mainly passers-by in this busy commercial area. Another two narcoterrorism attacks occurred on the same day.

The Liberal Party senator Federico Estrada Vélez was assassinated by hitmen hired by Pablo Escobar.

A party night at Oporto Bar was interrupted by the arrival of armed men who killed 19 people. This massacre was during a weekend that more than two decades later, is still remembered as one of the most violent in the city’s history.

A car bomb exploded on one of Medellín’s main roads with the aim to attack the Colombian police officers who were in the area to reinforce security. The amount of narcoterrorism attacks made June 1990 one of the most violent months.

She was kidnapped by The Extraditables together with five members of her press team when they were made to believe that they would be interviewing the leader of the ELN.

The journalist Francisco Santos was kidnapped in Bogotá by The Extraditables. He was released eight months later.

On November 7, 1990, the manager of Focine, Maruja Pachón, and the press officer of the same entity, Beatriz Villamizar de Guerrero, were kidnapped when they were traveling in a car. The hitmen blocked the vehicle and killed the driver, Ángel María Roa.

Faceless justice was a measure adopted by the Colombian government to protect members of the judiciary from the threats and terrorist attacks committed by drug traffickers to pressure judges to rule in their favor.

After five months of being kidnapped and as a way of putting pressure on the government to ban the extradition treaty, The Extraditables killed her in a rural area of the Copacabana Municipality.

After gaining the Colombians’ support, more than 70 representatives worked for five months on reforming the Political Constitution of Colombia.

Two hundred kilos of dynamite exploded in front of a police patrol unit close to the bull ring. Twenty-two people died and 155 were wounded.

The former minister of justice was assassinated by Pablo Escobar’s hitmen. Even though he had requested the protection of the Colombian government, he was alone at the time of his death.

Six months after her kidnapping, The Extraditables released her in the north of Bogotá to the sister-in-law of the murdered presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán.

Francisco Santos returned to freedom after being kidnapped by The Extraditables for eight months. Upon his return, he announced that Pablo Escobar would soon turn himself in.

After several weeks of negotiation with the Colombian government, the head of the Medellín Cartel turned himself in and was incarcerated at the prison called “Catedral” in Envigado.

One year after he turned himself in, the drug trafficker escaped the prison where he lived an eccentric life of luxury and continued his criminal activity with the collusion of some guards.

With the aim to halt the wave of violence created by Pablo Escobar, legal and illegal armed groups joined forces using the same methods of their enemy.

A special commando was created comprised of the army, Administrative Department of Security (DAS, for the Spanish original) and police to combat the Medellín Cartel and to catch Pablo Escobar dead or alive.

The sixth law enforcement judge, Myriam Rocío Vélez Pérez, was shot to death when traveling in her vehicle to her office in La Alpujarra Administrative Center on September 18, 1992.

On December 2, 1992, the threats to commit a terrorist attack in Atanasio Girardot Stadium were fulfilled. Thirteen people were killed and 19 were injured in this attack.

At around 3:30 am on December 19, 1992, approximately 60 armed people traveling in ten vehicles detonated 20 kg of dynamite at the entrance of the home of Captain Fernando Posada Hoyos in El Nogal neighborhood, in west Medellín.

In a lapse of ten days, residents of the Valderrobles Urbanization were victims of the explosion of two car bombs, which killed five people, injured more than 40 and caused countless material damage.

In a lapse of ten days, residents of the Valderrobles Urbanization were victims of the explosion of two car bombs, which killed five people, injured more than 40 and caused countless material damage.

A Car bomb exploded in front of Los Corales Building in El Poblado. The attack injured two people and caused numerous damage.

A car bomb loaded with 100 kg of dynamite exploded in the Veracruz neighborhood in downtown Bogotá. Twenty people died and more than 70 were injured.

In Medellín, near the buildings of Telecom, Banco de la República and Banco Cafetero, a car bomb exploded, producing losses of COP 372 million.

On March 31, 1993, Lisandro Ospina Baraya was killed during a rescue operation by the Special Operations Group of the Colombian Police (GOES, for the Spanish original).

There are many versions about the death of the head of the Medellín Cartel. It is said that it was a military achievement, but the people close to him insist it was suicide.

An own goal in the match against the USA and the bets on this match were the reasons they took the life of the Colombian soccer team’s player.