Medellin, Colombia - The daily life in the barrio that was build by Pablo Escobar. Medellin is Colombia’s second largest city (with almost 2.5 million residents), but it is, and always will be, linked by name to the legacy of Pablo Escobar’s cocaine cartel. To many of the city’s poorest people, Escobar whom they called Don Pablo was nothing short of Robin Hood in the flesh, a reputation he enjoys among some to this day. In his prime, he was undeniably a public works tour de force, establishing food programs, building parks and soccer fields, but his masterstroke may have been Barrio Pabl
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4928 x 3280 px | 41.7 x 27.8 cm | 16.4 x 10.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
1 August 2013Photographer:
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Medellin, Colombia - The daily life in the barrio that was build by Pablo Escobar. Medellin is Colombia’s second largest city (with almost 2.5 million residents), but it is, and always will be, linked by name to the legacy of Pablo Escobar’s cocaine cartel. To many of the city’s poorest people, Escobar whom they called Don Pablo was nothing short of Robin Hood in the flesh, a reputation he enjoys among some to this day. In his prime, he was undeniably a public works tour de force, establishing food programs, building parks and soccer fields, but his masterstroke may have been Barrio Pablo Escobar, a neighborhood of 450 red brick homes housing a couple thousand of Medellin’s most indigent. Did they pay rent? Nope. Property taxes? No way. Fifteen years ago Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin drug cartel, was killed as he tried to flee across a rooftop in what officials say was the most dangerous city in the world. But today Medellin is a boom town that is safer than some US cities and has tourists queuing up to learn about its violent past. (Photo by Robin Utrecht/Sipa USA)