Pablo Escobar’s son is asking for forgiveness

 
By The Associated Press
Published: November 9, 2009

BOGOTA — After notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed, the son who many thought would succeed him fled Colombia , assumed a new identity and lived a low-profile life as an architect in Argentina .

The former Juan Pablo Escobar, who was 16 when his father was shot to death in 1993, is now trading anonymity for what he calls conscience, asking forgiveness for his father’s reign of terror in the do...


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