Escobar, his brother Roberto and a half dozen other inmates apparently got away. The hostages were freed by soldiers who stormed the prison before dawn, but as many as six people have been reported killed. Escobar was said to have taken two high-ranking government officials and the prison warden hostage. Seven other provincial governors elected in 2003 were sentenced to prison for courting AUC support in areas where the paramilitary group had influence.Īguilar commanded the elite police operation that killed Escobar on December 2, 1993, after an intense, years-long search aided by the United States.Įscobar was the head of the Medellin cartel which dominated cocaine trafficking from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s.President Cesar Gaviria of Colombia said last night that Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers, had escaped from the resort-like prison where he has been held for the last year.Īfter an attempt to move the notorious drug trafficker to a more secure prison, Mr. One of the other politicians present, former senator Luis Alberto Gil, was sentenced to seven years in prison and has already regained freedom. In 2011, Colombia's inspector general, who oversees the conduct of public officials, said Aguilar was ineligible to serve in public office for 20 years for promoting and collaborating with the AUC.Īccording to ex-paramilitary chief Edgar Cobos, who went by the alias Diego Vecino, Aguilar "joined the AUC's political project" at a summit of paramilitary leaders that he attended with other politicians. The right-wing organization, whose 31,000 combatants were demobilized in 2006, is accused of carrying out killings and other rights abuses in a secret war against leftist guerrillas. The Supreme Court Wednesday determined that retired colonel Hugo Aguilar had been elected governor of the northwest Santander department in 2003 with the support of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group. A Colombian police colonel who led the operation that took down notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar has been sentenced to nine years in prison for ties to a paramilitary group.
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