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
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