The terrorist group, who claimed “we prefer a grave in Colombia to a prison in the United States,” launched a bloody intimidation campaign with the goal of signing legislation into law that would prevent the extradition of the drug lords to the United States. Later in the day, another news network received a call from the perpetrators behind the deadly bombing: the dreaded Extraditables.Ĭonsisting of the Pablo Escobar, Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, and other prominent cartel leaders in Colombia, Los Extraditables had declared “total war” on the Colombian government in August of 1989. The vehicle had been packed with 220 pounds of explosives and the resulting blast, which was felt as far as nearly twenty miles away, left a crater 10-feet deep in the middle of the city.Įl Espectador’s headquarters were destroyed, the presses damaged, and windows shattered. 3rd, 1989, the relative silence of the early morning on the streets of Bogota was shattered when a truck parked in front of the headquarters of El Espectador, the country’s oldest newspaper, and exploded with horrifying force. Wikimedia Commons/Getty Images Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Pablo Escobar, and Fabio Ochoa Vásquez.Ī little before 7 a.m.
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