So I’ll do it in the movies.”Velásquez’s isn’t the first case of on-screen talent with possible ties to organized crime – several actors from the Italian film “They killed people at stoplights, in streets,” he recalls. Get TMZ breaking news sent right to your browser! The estate belonged to a former associate of late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who was killed in 1993, reportedly by Colombian police Since his release, Velásquez has become a controversial celebrity in Colombia and there are Now, the former assassin wants to relive his violent past by acting in movies too.Sitting on the patio of a garden cafe, where middle-aged women perform outdoor yoga a few yards away, Velásquez, dressed in all black, explains how acting quenches his thirst for mob life.
Velasquez was known as Escobar's right hand man, commanding the drug kingpin's army of hitmen. 8/18/2020 7:02 AM PT 8/18/2020 12:01 AM PT “Generally I don’t like these types of programs,” she says. He argues that these types of series have a negative effect on society because they inherently glorify the bad guys. Medellín transferred that [experience] to film.” Velásquez is unapologetic about his past and according to him, movies and TV series about the Medellín mafia are successful because of the “magic surrounding the mafia life [the city] lived.” “Everyone says, how are you going to make a movie with a gangster like Popeye?” he says. On a sunny Saturday in February, two policemen on a motorcycle stop Jhon Jairo “Popeye” Velásquez as he walks down the driveway of a dilapidated mansion near Medellin, Colombia. It will be an army of the ultra-right.” But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that there are still hearts and minds to win over in his country. Pablo Escobar's main hitman, simply known as 'Popeye,' has died following a battle with stomach cancer. But can he move on from his hitman past? Pablo Escobar's favorite hit man is a YouTube star in Colombia, and now he's going into politics. 8/18/2020 7:18 AM PT © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Convicted of terrorism and murder, Velasquez was released from prison after 23 years and has big plans.

“I’m looking for my second chance in society [through film]. Homicides have dropped over Velásquez uses his celebrity to voice his distaste for the State’s peace deal with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the big screen and social media may just be his launchpad for far more ambitious goals. 8/18/2020 12:20 AM PT I no longer want to do it in the streets; I don’t want to kill anyone else. He claimed in a It’s unclear if Velásquez is still capable of the atrocities he committed when he worked for Escobar, but two analysts close to the Medellín underworld, who asked to remain anonymous for this story, told of whispers that Velásquez is forming alliances with criminal gangs in Medellín. Velasquez, right, with his former boss Pablo Escobar. He has confessed to killing upwards of 300 people in Colombia during his time working for Escobar's cartel. “I like to shoot and I like the mafia,” he says. He had more than 1 million subscribers on his channel. Rosalba Albes is a former police officer who lost her hand in a 1990 anti-kidnapping operation, when a young cartel member detonated a fragmentation grenade near her. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. 8/18/2020 12:40 AM PT 8/18/2020 6:54 AM PT 8/18/2020 12:50 AM PT Popeye, exjefe de sicarios del Cartel de Medellín, asegura que El Chapo volverá a caer - Duration: 3:57. Their deaths hurt me profoundly.” In the late 1980s, Escobar and his most prominent associates, known as “The Extraditables,” Since Escobar’s death, there have been power struggles between criminal gangs, but Medellín has experienced relative peace. Seguramente la entrevista mas reveladora del ex jefe de sicario del Cartel de Medellin y mano derecha de Pablo Escobar Jhon Jairo Velasquez.

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Under drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, John Jairo Velasquez killed over 250 people and masterminded the deaths of 3,000 more.


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