Real Life ‘Narcos’ Recount Capture & Killing of Pablo Escobar

The two DEA agents who hunted down drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and are featured on the Netflix hit series ‘Narcos’, sit down with CGTN to share their story.

Javier Peña and Steve Murphy tell CGTN Americas Now how they traced Escobar for months until they tapped his phone and located him in a neighborhood in his home town of Medellín. On December 2, 1993, Escobar died during a shooting with Colombian forces.

In the late 80´s, Peña and Murphy volunteered to work on a secret operation that ended up taking down the “Medellin Cartel,” the world’s wealthiest criminal empire of the time.

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