Now a major motion picture! Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the
last century. In the decade before his death in 1993 he reigned as the head of a multinational
cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees killing thousands of politicians
media personalities police and unarmed citizens. In the 1980s Virginia Vallejo was
Colombia's most famous television celebrity: a top-rated anchorwoman and a twice-divorced
socialite who had been courted by the country's four wealthiest men. In 1982 she interviewed
Pablo Escobar on her news program and soon after they began a discreet-albeit stormy-romantic
relationship. During their five-year affair Escobar would show Vallejo the vulnerability of
presidents senators and military leaders seeking to profit from the drug trade. From
Vallejo's privileged perspective and her ability to navigate the global corridors of wealth and
high society Escobar gained the insight to master his manipulation ofColombia's powerful elite
and media. Loving Pablo Hating Escobar chronicles the birth of Colombia's drug cartels: the
kidnappers the guerilla groups and the paramilitary organizations. It is above everything a
great love story-a deep and painful journeythrough a forbidden relationship-that gives us an
intimate vision of thelegendary drug baron who left his mark on Colombia Latin America the
United States and the world forever.
