Tuesday, October 16, 2007

T-shirts of a drug-star as souvenirs

I couldn't resist the temptation of posting this, even if it's in Spanish (I guess some of you can read it anyway). Just as a contextual note: Pablo Escobar is the single most famous colombian person after Shakira (or viceversa). He was the most important and powerful drugdealer in Colombia during the 80's, when he was even capable of offering the president to pay the external debt of the country (which would have entailed, off course, legalization of the trade and therefore the breaking of the relationship with the US). He commited several terrorist attacks against colombian elites after having been rejected from almost every "traditional" stage of social power, and was finally "killed" in 1993 (there are several stories about how everything was an agreement between him, the media, the president, or whoever to just disappear and live his life in peace).

This is my favorite excerpt of the article: "Dicen que era un asesino, pero no me consta. Igual está muerto" (They say he was a assassin, but I have no proof. Anyway he's dead) This is the answer of the guy that sells the T-shirts with the picture that was displayed on the "Wanted" posters, when asked about the ethics of selling such a souvenir for tourists...

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