I was a professional killer and nowadays I have reconsidered it. I was not responsible for the assassinations.
He said: 'I'm also a victim of Don Pablo. Heartless: Escobar's right-hand man, Vasquez (as a young man, left and in 2015, right) says he feels no guilt for the hundreds he murdered because they were all casualties of 'the war' He had been diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus which had spread to his lungs, liver and other organs and had been hospitalised since December 31. He was arrested again in May 2018 on suspicion of extortion and conspiracy and had been back behind bars since then.Ĭolombia's National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC) confirmed that Velasquez died in the early hours of the morning in the National Cancer Institute in the capital Bogota. Velasquez then went into hiding for several years fearing reprisals from his victim's families and members of the Medellin Cartel he helped to convict in return for a lighter sentence. The heartless assassin - who once described killing as 'like a day at the office' - was jailed in 1993 - the year Escobar was gunned down by police in his home town of Medellin - but was released in 2014.
Velasquez served a life sentence after admitting to killing 300 people and ordering the deaths of 3,000 more as he violently enforced Escobar's legendary reign of terror. “I wake up daily and with the decision to show the scars that make me what I am but do not define what I will be today and tomorrow.Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's former chief hitman Jhon Jairo 'Popeye' Velasquez has died of cancer today at the age of 57. “I am repentant and determined to help build the truth for those who lived the reality of the Medellin of the ’80s and ’90s firsthand,” he wrote. On his website, he described himself as “another person,” who learned from his life of crime. Velásquez also had a book, “Surviving Pablo Escobar: ‘Popeye’ The Hitman 23 Years and 3 Months in Prison,” published in 2005, and a YouTube channel, POPEYE_Arrepentido, with more than 1.2 million subscribers. Velásquez had an immense criminal record under the orders of multibillionaire drug lord Escobar - dubbed “The King of Cocaine” - who was the founder and leader of the Medellín cartel.Įscobar was shot dead by Colombian security forces in 1993. Once authorities learned of the seriousness of Velásquez’s illness, he was transferred to Bogotá for palliative care, El Colombiano reported. Velásquez, who had confessed to killing 300 people, was behind bars in the past - but was recaptured in May 2018 when he continued a life of crime and extortion through the Medellín cartel, according to the report. He was hospitalized on New Year’s Eve for esophageal cancer, which metastasized to his stomach, the outlet reported. Velásquez, 54, died in the early morning hours at the National Cancer Institute in Bogotá, Colombian outlet La FM reported, citing a statement from the country’s National Penitentiary and Prison Institute. Pablo Escobar’s top hitman, Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez - nicknamed “Popeye” - died Thursday after a battle with esophageal cancer, according to new reports. Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos legally 'people': US judgeĬolombia begins sterilizing Pablo Escobar's hippos The farmer who faked his own death to work for Pablo Escobar - and the CIA
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