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Drugs ravage Medellin three decades after Pablo Escobar's death

Three decades after cartel boss Pablo Escobar was shot dead by police on a rooftop in Medellin, the very city he had sought to uplift with drug money is being ravaged by it.

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But authorities say the increase in domestic drug use has gone hand-in-hand with rising insecurity. Since 2018, more than 2,500 people have been killed in gang wars nationally, police general Herman Bustamante told AFP. Official data does not distinguish between gangster and civilian deaths.