Pablo Escobar is a person who most people refer to as the king of cocaine.
His indestructible moves in smuggling and transporting cocaine are what troubled the authorities until they pinned him down.
After his death, hell broke loose for his wife and her kids.
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This is probably one of the hardest decisions that she had to make.
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This incident came after years of the police trying to trace him in vain.
She was blown away by the way he would pull a naughty smile every time he looked at her.
Maria and Pablos relationship was ‘love at fight sight’.
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Maria’s parents did not approve of their union, so she decided to elope in 1976.
Seven years later, she gave birth to their daughter, Manuela Escobar, in 1984.
Pablo, however, had many concubines with whom he had affairs.
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Hours later, the headlines of many media stations read, Pablo Escobar dead.
Years later, aTV series, entitledNarcos- a story based on his life - was released.
Her husband was gunned down by a particular police unit.
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This was the start of her miseries as what followed was a life full of distress and trouble.
Escobars death was followed by a series of plagues on his family.
The investigations on his drug dealings led to his assets being confiscated.
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The police were also pursuing his wife for being a suspect in the dealings.
Victoria, therefore, had to be on her heels since she was not willing to turn herself in.
She, therefore, opted to flee Colombia.
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She detached herself from all the connections that would trace her back to her husband.
Victoria and her kids tried to seek asylum in several countries, all in vain.
She would not be allowed into Germany and Mozambique, just because people associated her with her husband.
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Luckily, she tried out Argentina, and for the first time, fate favoured her.
She made herself a home in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Maria changed her name to Maria Isabel Santos Caballero.
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Her sons new name was Sebastian Marroquin.
Pablo Escobar’s daughter has since then chosen to open a new page of her life.
That transformation marked the Manuela Escobar death, especially in that identity.
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She is reported to have buried her identity as Manuela Escobar.
According to a Colombian news website called ‘El Tiempo’, her new identity is Juana Manuela Marroquin Santos.
However, he did not submerge himself in fear of people recognising him.
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Neither was he ashamed of being referred to as the son of the king of the Medellin cartel.
To add to it, he still visits his fathers grave regularly to pay his respect.
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She graduated from Meru University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering in 2019.
In 2023, Priscillah finished the AFP course on Digital Investigation Techniques.
She has been writing articles on Briefly.co.za since 2019.
Email: pshmueni@gmail.com
