Pablo Escobar’s favorite assassin is now a YouTube sensation

In the heyday of Colombia's cartel wars, one of the most feared sicarios, or hitmen, went by the name of Popeye. His chin jutted out like the cartoon character's. He was Pablo Escobar's right-hand man, helping him uphold the drug-running Medellin cartel's vengeful stranglehold over Colombia in the late 1980s. He enjoyed years of impunity during which he […]

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