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FILE - Tourists buy souvenirs of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, featured as a statue with a sign that says one will be charged for taking photos inside a store in Doradal, Colombia, Feb. 5, 2021. Souvenirs depicting the Escobar could be banned in Colombia if legislators approve a bill introduced the week of Aug. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Colombia’s congress considers ban on Pablo Escobar souvenirs

By Manuel Rueda - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, Jhon Jairo Velasquez, a former hit man for Pablo Escobar, known by his nickname &quot;Popeye,&quot; gives his testimony while holding a book titled &quot;The True Pablo, Blood, Treason, and Death,&quot; during the trial against Alberto Santofimio Botero in Bogota, Colombia. According to authorities, Velasquez died of stomach cancer at a hospital in Bogota on Feb. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez, File)

Pablo Escobar’s hit man, known as “Popeye,” dies of cancer

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar’

By Paul Davis

Drugs were labeled with photo of late kingpin Pablo Escobar

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Clouds of dust rise from the implosion of a six-floor apartment building that former cartel boss Pablo Escobar once called home, in Medellin, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Mayor Federico Gutierrez had been pushing to raze the building and erect in its place a park honoring the thousands of victims, including four presidential candidates and some 500 police officers, killed by Escobar's army of assassins during the Medellin cartel's heyday in the 1980s and 1990s. (AP Photo/Luis Benavidez)

Medellin razes Pablo Escobar’s home in symbol of rebirth

By DIEGO ESCUDERO and CESAR GARCIA - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo, the late Pablo Escobar, former boss of the Medellin drug cartel, his wife Maria Henao and their son Juan Pablo, attend a soccer match in Bogota, Colombia. The widow of Pablo Escobar fell madly in love as a preteen with the man who would rise to be a ruthless drug lord, but says in a new book she felt raped when at age 14 he forced her to have an abortion, and over time came to view him as a cruel psychopath. (El Tiempo Photo via AP File)

Pablo Escobar’s widow describes forced abortion in new book

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this 1983 file photo, Medellin drug cartel boss Pablo Escobar watches a soccer game in Medellin, Colombia. Colombian police announced Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018 that they have shut down a small makeshift museum that showcased the life and times of notorious drug lord, saying the building's managers do not have a tourism license. The site was managed by Escobar's 71-year-old brother, Roberto. (AP Photo, File)

Colombian police shut down Pablo Escobar museum

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Colombia mad over Wiz Khalifa’s visit to Pablo Escobar tomb

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TV series on Escobar written by victims’ children

By CESAR GARCIA - Associated Press

Colombia TV network cancels Escobars documentary

By LIBARDO CARDONA and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press