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A proposed law in Colombia's Congress seeks to ban the sale of
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merchandise and celebrates former drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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The bill wants to ban the Escobar merchandise to help put an
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end to the glorification of the drug lord who was big in
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the global cocaine trade and widely held responsible for at least 4000
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killings. I can see why the government wants to stop the
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glorification of Pablo, right?
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But do you think that like locals that make a living off
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like any Pablo merchandise and like the tours and stuff,
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like how do you think they feel about this?
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I think. It's definitely gonna hurt,
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but they just have to reshape their,
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their model of business,
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and I think that's very easy to do considering the amount of
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celebrities, singers like Shakira,
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Camilo, that they can just replace merch wise,
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Colombia isn't cocaine. I'd like that to be made clear.
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Colombia is not cocaine.
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Colombia exports over 70% of the flowers that you can
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actually find all throughout the United States.
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So thank Colombia for your Valentine's Day gifts this year.
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Additionally, we are one of the largest exporters all around the
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world when it comes to caffeine,
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coffee beans, and emeralds.
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So out of those three,
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Of people around the world rely on coffee.
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With that, obviously there's not this fun fairy tale nautical narrative
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that comes, but I wanted to ask you,
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when it comes to the narcos in Mexico,
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are they glorified the way they are in Colombia?
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I mean, I feel like the closest thing would be a
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chapo and articles like you said in general.
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I mean, there is music,
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right in the corridos and like,
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yeah, I also chapo like.
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But I feel like Pablo's in the whole like global level just
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because again Narcosa show went worldwide and just yeah you see his
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picture everywhere like the one from the White House and stuff so
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I think it's on a different level for sure.
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You know, some might say,
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why are you erasing history?
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it's history, but for many it's reality.
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Pablo Escobar didn't happen too long ago.
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There are many family members around the country that suffer the consequences
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of Pablo Escobar and are still going through them,
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so I don't think there's anything about him to be glorified anymore
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and I think there's many beautiful interesting culturally important things about
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Colombia as a country the world can learn.
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