Bed bugged?
Edgar Jimenez, aka El Chino, was a puny classmate of Pablo Escobar’s at Antioqueno Junior High School in Colombia back in the ‘60s. While Escobar used the ensuing years to become his generation’s greatest murderous drug-lord superstar, El Chino slunk off to a dull life as a local wedding photographer.
In plane sight
But after a chance reunion in the early ‘80s, Escobar recruited El Chino to become his personal picture taker, documenting his political campaigns, his private parties, and the various goings-on at Escobar’s outlandish 4,500-acre estate, Hacienda Napoles.
'El-if-I-know
El Chino spent the next decade in Escobar’s employ, enjoying total access and fussing over which of the drug lord’s associates was open to having his picture taken. This continued until the CIA, Los Pepes, Delta Force and a bunch of other people who wanted Escobar’s head on a platter converged to dismantle the Medellin Cartel.
Dis'nae abou' tha like
Recently Jimenez invited VBS to El Chino’s home in Medellin.
Beak the habit
Source: Colectiva
Tags: Drugs, Pablo Escobar, Photography
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