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
Pablo Escobar in the book "Escobar"). Roberto Escobar also claimed that, in addition to using planes, his brother employed two small submarines to transport the massive loads. In 1982 Escobar was elected as an alternate member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, as part of a small movement called "Liberal Alternative". Earlier in the campaign he was a candidate for the "Liberal Renewal Movement", but had to leave it because of the firm opposition of Luis Carlos Galán, whose presidential campaign was supported by the "Liberal Renewal Movement". Escobar was the official representative of the Colombian government for the swearing-in of