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Entertainment June 26, 2017
Sebastian Marroquín is an architect by trade, but his birth name might raise some eyebrows. He was born Juan Pablo Escobar in 1977.
Marroquín experienced a unique childhood upbringing as the son of Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar and Maria Victoria Henao. “We had many cars, houses, helicopters and airplanes,” Marroquín admits to a crowd a people at a speaking conference in Aguascalientes, Mexico. “We had every type of luxury you could imagine.”
His purpose for speaking out is not to justify his father’s crimes, but to rather tell the truth and to make sense of his past and everything he’s learned about his family’s violent legacy, reports NPR. He states, “I feel I have a moral responsibility to go before society, recognize my father’s crimes and to apologize to the victims of these crimes.”
ENTITY explores how Marroquín has come to terms with his father’s sins in the following ways.
Marroquin’s autobiography, “Pablo Escobar: My Father” became a bestseller in Latin America. The book details his deeply personal and painful reflections from being the son of the world’s most infamous drug lord.
Amazon describes it “as a shocking look at the consequences of violence and the overwhelming need for peace and forgiveness.”
Marroquín now finds himself on a path of healing by reconciling with those who’ve lost family members.
In 2008 Marroquín returned to Colombia for the first time with bodyguards in an armored car, to meet with Jorge Lara, the son of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara. Lara watched his father get pulled out of his limousine and die of gun wounds at the age of six when Escabar ordered his lead assassin to end Rodrigo’s life because he was avidly against drug crime.
Nicolas Entel turned Pablo Escobar and Marroquín’s story into a documentary called “Sins of My Father” capturing one of the most compelling and poignant scenes of Marroquín embracing one of the sons of Escobar’s victims. Both sons “realizing they all are victims of the malicious drug trade.”
Sincerity and integrity are never for purchase. They’re rare qualities that allow a person to live their fullest and most genuine selves.
Marroquín hasn’t been shy about revealing the truth behind his family’s filthy rich lifestyle. The man who could’ve easily turned into his father instead learned about the violence and hardships that go hand-in-hand with drugs.
He admits that they had no freedom during an interview with CNN. For instance, on his 14th birthday he received a Ferrari Testarossa, but he could never enjoy it because the Escobars were always on the run.
“We had millions but we could not go outside to buy a piece of bread,” he states. Not a very glamorous way to live for the son of a man worth 30 billion dollars in net worth.
Thankfully, Marroquín has made it his mission to perform the very act that put most Columbians in life-threatening danger throughout the 70’s and 80’s by speaking out against drug violence and revealing the truth about his family legacy.
