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Will Taking Out El Mencho Actually Fix Anything? Colombia Knows
Pablo Escobar died in December 1993, and whether that made things better is still genuinely open. You've seen a new cartel leader taken out recently and you're watching to see how it lands. The 1993 playbook exists. The result is documented. And it's more complicated than the headline suggested.
Shane draws a direct line between Escobar's takedown and a recent cartel assassination, calling the parallel "eerily similar." His question isn't rhetorical: was Colombia actually better off? The answer splits completely depending on whether Escobar was protecting your neighborhood or running violence…
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