Are there people who still regard Pablo Escobar as a hero?

I can only assume the answer but surely many people thinks he was a hero, he “helped” many people, and I put that in quotation marks because he only did it to take benefit from this, but it's like Chavez in Venezuela who helped many people but just as any other populist do, to keep them allied with him. read more

But, at least in Medellin, it is not difficult to find T-shirts bearing Escobar's face, or Colombians who still see the founder of the Medellin cartel as a sort of hero willing to buy them. "People really like them because it's like wearing a [picture] of a Saint you have faith in," explains Jenny Zapata, who sells Escobar-themed T-shirts at Pasaje Junin in Medellin. read more