Surviving Escobar to surrender to justice. Already in prison he must face his enemies and use all his tactics not only to survive, but to establish again as a great capo inside the prison and continue his reign of terror, returning to be a feared drug trafficker from the prison. Surviving Escobar Surviving Escobar (stylized onscreen as Surviving Escobar: Alias JJ), is a Colombian drama television series created by Caracol Televisión. The series is based on the book written by John Jairo Velásquez, alias "Popeye", lieutenant and chief of the band of assassins of Pablo Escobar. It stars Juan Pablo Urrego as
Pablo Escobar October 2006, at the request of some of his relatives in order to take a DNA sample to confirm the alleged paternity of an illegitimate child and remove all doubt about the identity of the body that had been buried next to his parents for 12 years. A video of the exhumation was broadcast by RCN, angering Marroquín, who accused his uncle, Roberto Escobar, and cousin, Nicolas Escobar, of being "merchants of death" by allowing for the video to air. After Escobar's death, the ranch, zoo and citadel at Hacienda Nápoles were given by the government to low-income families under