In it, he holds onto window bars and wears a Russian wool hat, given to him by his mother after her visit to Moscow to make sure her son would keep warm during the cold nights up on his mountain.Near this large photograph we see a preserved area of ruins. He was a man succumbing to the constant pressure of being hunted.Six months of secret negotiations brought a deal with the Colombian government. Rumors of buried bins filled with millions of dollars enticed thousands of hunters, including soldiers and police — one treasure-seeker even brought a psychic to aid in the search. Escobar balked.
Tracked down after staying on the phone too long with his son, Escobar was shot on a rooftop in Medellin’s Los Olivos neighborhood by members of the Search Bloc.Like many of the other properties formerly owned by Escobar that still dot Medellin’s cityscape, La Catedral lay vacant for many years as the city ignored it.

The last stretch before arriving at the prison levels out after the steep climb, bringing you to the access gate.From the gate, the main road empties into a parking lot where you are greeted by a gray and white cat with a barroom brawl nose, who now watches over the grounds instead of 40 prison guards. Plaques dot the grounds making not-subtle-at-all allusions to its famous denizen. La Catedral was so extravagant, in fact, that it also boasted an industrial kitchen, a billiards room, several bars with big-screen TVs, and a disco where the drug kingpin actually hosted wedding receptions during his imprisonment. The Honey Valley rests southeast of Medellin in the mountainous outskirts of the neighboring town, Envigado. Bathtubs, pipes, tiles and roof materials were stripped; many of the homes in the El Salado neighborhood of Envigado are made with building materials from the prison. There was a waterfall. The first encounter with Escobar’s era as you approach the compound is a preserved concrete lookout tower a few hundred meters below the main building complex. It had cellular phones, radio transmitters and a fax machine to allow him to continue with business, which at its peak brought his cartel $60 million dollars a day and oversaw control of up to 80 percent of the cocaine shipped to the United States.While Escobar was living at La Catedral, his family made the trip up from Envigado to visit him three or four times a week, as did friends, professional soccer players and prostitutes when he wished. SiccasGuitars 5,455,569 views 8:11 Things eventually came to something of a deadlock with both sides refusing to give up any ground until a new policy was tentatively agreed upon: negotiated surrender.The terms of surrender stipulated that Escobar and his cronies would cease their domestic terrorism and give themselves up to the authorities in exchange for the promise that they would not be extradited to the United States. One reads: “He who kills another without authority or just cause, condemns himself to death.” A restored prison watchtower complete with a watchman mannequin bears another: “He who is envious and is envied suffers a double torment.” A photograph of Escobar sits overlooking the main parking lot, part of a montage of images mostly of the newly built asylum. Walls were dismantled, the grounds dug up. Published on Oct 18, 2012. Exactly how he was able to do so remains an open question. As Escobar and several other drug traffickers debated their murder, two explosions and gunfire bursts rang out. It’s generally one of condemnation — except in the poor neighborhoods that Escobar literally built or donated soccer fields and hospitals to — but it’s a condemnation lined with curiosity.