![]() "They want to be that criminal, they send me photos dressed up like him, with his moustache, his hairstyle." "I receive tons of messages from youths asking for help to be like my dad," he revealed to the newspaper. He went on to reveal that in his eyes, thanks in part to Narcos, kids contact him regularly with questions about how to live a similar lifestyle as Escobar had once had. He was responsible for his actions and I will not tire of apologizing for it. Whoever reads what I have written about my father will realize that the last thing I pursue is to save his face or justify him. Instead of condemning Netflix for painting his father in a bad or untrue light, Marroquin has reportedly criticized the streaming service for "glorifying" his father’s life: Series about narcos have turned my father into a hero and given young people the idea that it is cool to be a drug trafficker. Unlike Santos, though, Marroquin is more vocal than ever about their family and their father. There’s a lot less out there about Santos, but there have been reports about her having inherited the bulk of Escobar’s estate that wasn't seized due to his criminal activities. She’s also apparently chosen to stay out of the spotlight for the most part. Santos was just 10 years old at the time of their father’s death, and as a small child during her father’s reign as a multi-billionaire drug kingpin, she likely remembers a lot less than her older brother. But with Escobar’s daughter Santos, her life continued in a very different way. Since Marroquin was 17 at the time of his father’s death, he clearly remembers a lot of what Escobar did and who his enemies were. But if so, I’m the last person in Colombia who deserves any sympathy." ![]() "Reconciliation is not usually part of a Colombian’s vocabulary." That surprise carried over when Marroquin said the families of the slain politicians told him, "You were also a victim of Pablo Escobar," but Marroquin added, "I don’t know if that’s true. "I was surprised when they agreed to sit down with me," Marroquin told The Independent. In 1999, he even sat down with the children of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara and the former Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, who were both allegedly killed by Pablo, and asked them for forgiveness on his family’s behalf. According to The Independant, he travels around the world as a professional speaker, giving talks and lectures on drug policy reform and violence prevention. In fact, it seems to be Marroquin’s mission as an adult to right his father’s wrongs in whatever way he can. In a recent interview on Norwegian-Swedish talk show Skavlan, Marroquin revealed that one of the reasons he changed his name from Juan Pablo Escobar was to stay alive. Although he changed his name, Marroquin didn’t necessarily do it to distance himself from his father’s memory, but instead to try and live a relatively normal life. Marroquin is now an architect and public speaker, but has also written about his father in his best-selling book, Pablo Escobar: My Father. Since fleeing Columbia for Argentina with Manuela (whose name was changed to Juana Manuela Marroquin Santos) and their mother after his father’s death, Juan Pablo changed his name to Sebastian Marroquin and went a completely different route of his father in terms of a career choice. But where are Pablo Escobar's kids now? Manuela and Juan Pablo are living different lives from each other, with one in the relative spotlight and the other enjoying a quieter lifestyle. His children, Manuela and Juan Pablo Escobar, are even portrayed in the series and his close relationship with them is apparent. Before Narcos, not many people probably thought of Pablo Escobar as a family man, but according to the way he’s portrayed in the Netflix series, that’s exactly what he was, next to Colombian drug lord.
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