Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord "rigorous academic research. The model is fiction and the victims' participation won't be anything more than an anecdote. On the contrary, this kind of series eventually distorts knowledge about history in public opinion." Telemundo's July 9 broadcast of "Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal" averaged nearly 2.2 million viewers. Confirmed on June 27, 2013. The finalists were announced on July 31, 2013. Winners were announced on August 15, 2013. Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord Escobar: El Patrón del Mal (international title: Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord; also known as Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal) is a 2012 Colombian telenovela
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar a political scandal in Latin America and the Hispanic television channels in the US, due to Vallejo's description of the relationship of Pablo Escobar and the Medellin and Cali cartels with several presidents - like Alvaro Uribe, Alfonso López and Ernesto Samper - and Colombian enforcement agencies. Thanks to Vallejo's revelations, the Colombian government reopened the so-called "cases of the century": the siege of the Palace of Justice, followed by a massacre of more than 100 people, including eleven Supreme Court Justices, committed by the army; and the assassination of Luis Carlos Galan in 1989. Vallejo's book was commented by