Carlos Mauro Hoyos of the government of Virgilio Barco was issuing a severe anti-terrorism penal regimen that was named Statute for Defending the Democracy. At the same time, the government promised that the crime would not go unpunished. However, this was just the starting point of a narcoterrorist continuous period perpetuated by Pablo Escobar Gaviria and his henchmen to stain Colombia with blood. In 2012, the Colombian private channel Caracol Televisión premiered the series "Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord", inspired by the life of Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellín Cartel. The character of Carlos Mauro Hoyos was performed by the actor Carlos
Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord focuses on Escobar's contradictory drives to be a good husband; a decent, upstanding, Colombian citizen; a left-wing politician; a supporter of the poor; and a wealthy, powerful "bandido" (an endearing term for criminal, like "rascal"), all while seeking ever more political power, wealth, and sexual exploits. The series was created by Camilo Cano and Juana Uribe, vice president of Caracol TV and the series' producer. Cano's father, Guillermo Cano, who was publisher of newspaper "El Espectador", was murdered by Escobar in December 1986. Uribe's mother, Maruja Pachón, was kidnapped on Escobar's orders, and her uncle, presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán,