Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar of the journalist is played by Penélope Cruz, while the drug kingpin by Javier Bardem, both winners of the Oscar of the Academy of Hollywood as best supporting actors. Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar is the translation of the title ""Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar"", a memoir of the Colombian author and journalist Virginia Vallejo. It was originally written in Spanish and was published by Random House Mondadori on 22 September 2007, and Random House Inc. of New York on 4 October 2007. The book describes the five years-long (1982-1987) romantic relationship of the author with
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is also her personal intimate biography of Pablo Escobar; a moving and terrible love story with many facets, but also a historical document about Colombian tragedies and political corruption in the second part of the 20th century.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