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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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According to Luis Fernando Quijano of social development NGO Corpades, this was more telling of a "mafia peace" than of any real progress. There were "pacts," he said, between narco gangs and some local authorities to allow drug trade in exchange for relative security in their areas.