Colombian necktie Colombian necktie A Colombian necktie (), is a post-mortem mutilation used in South America wherein the victim's throat would be slashed horizontally, with a knife or other sharp object, and his or her tongue pulled out through the open wound. The Colombian necktie is sometimes credited to drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. However, it appeared decades earlier, during La Violencia (1948–1958), as a method of psychological warfare, meant to scare and intimidate. During the trial of O. J. Simpson in 1994, an alternate murderer theory claimed hitmen murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The theory supposes that the hitmen were
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar translated to sixteen languages, and inspired the movie "Loving Pablo" (2017). Vallejo's memoir is also her personal intimate biography of Pablo Escobar; a moving and terrible love story with many facets, but also a historical document about Colombian tragedies and political corruption in the second part of the 20th century. The book is divided in an introduction and three parts: The Days of Innocence and Dreams; The Days of Splendor and Terror; and The Days of Absence and Silence. In the Introduction, Virginia Vallejo describes her departure from Colombia on 18 July 2006 in a special flight of the US