Pablo Escobar's Sister Claims The Drug Lord Was Not Killed But Rather Committed Suicide

In a rare interview, Alba Marina Gaviria, the sister of the infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, made shocking revelations about her brother.

Speaking to Rafa Poveda on his podcast 'Más Allá del Silencio,' Gaviria revealed that she believes that her brother died by suicide, rather than killed by Colombian special forces while running on the rooftops of Medellín, as the traditional narrative goes.

"When I arrived, the police were celebrating. They shaved off his mustache and did terrible things. I tried to go up, but they wouldn't let me. Pablo had no blood on his body... Pablo killed himself to protect us." she said.

While her claims about the details of her brother's death remain unsubstantiated, Gaviria also told personal anecdotes of Pablo as a young man.

Gaviria recalled how Pablo taught her how to swim and ride a bicycle, and said she remembers him as a "calm person, quiet." "I rarely saw him laugh out loud. He had more of a half-smile. He was very supportive, but he was someone who rarely forgot or forgave offenses. Pablo was very intelligent, a person with a seventh sense—he was always ahead of everyone else."

However, she also detailed how his ambition led him down a criminal path as he was impatient with the traditional routes of making money. Gaviria remembers Pablo telling their mother that he "needed to make money fast" and wouldn't be able to do it legally.

From brother to drug lord

Gaviria said there wasn't as much of a negative stigma around cocaine when she was growing up. She recounted an incident where Pablo asked her to store a package of cocaine at her house, and while she was shocked, she did not see it as a sinister sign of what was to come.

"Back then, cocaine wasn't seen as evil. It was something artists and even the mayor of New York used. Nobody thought it was wrong."

However, when Forbes magazine listed Pablo as one of the richest men in the world, things began to change.

"Before we knew it, Pablo had a lot of money and luxury cars, and Forbes magazine was saying he was one of the richest men in the world. We couldn't believe it."

However, after Pablo decided to enter politics, which Gaviria calls his "biggest mistake," and the assassination of prosecutor Rodrigo Lara, came "the end of peace for Pablo Escobar and for our family."

She recounted that Pablo and the rest of her family would be pursued for the rest of Pablo's life, recounting a time when their father was kidnapped for ransom, ending in Pablo paying it and then killing the kidnappers.

However, despite her brother's infamous notoriety, Gaviria compared him to Latin American independence leader Simón Bolívar, saying that they were both "born for war."

"Some people are warriors. It was better for Pablo to die in battle, but if we think about wars, we have to reflect. I'm not justifying anything, but if we had allowed them to do to us whatever they wanted, what more would they have done?"

You can watch the full interview here