-Pablo Escobar was born the 1st of December of 1949, He was the founder of the cartel of Medellin, this cartel supplied an estimated 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, His personal income in a year was US $21.9 billion at the top of his career . He was often called "The King of Cocaine" and was the wealthiest criminal in history, with an estimated known net worth of US $30 billion by the early 1990s equivalent to about $55 billion as of 2016, making him one of the richest men in the world in his prime.
-Up until now his death is a mystery since there is the word around that his so called killer wasn’t actually the one who pulled the trigger but there are so many other theories that state that even Pablo himself committed suicide, this documentary tries to show new versions of Pablo Escobar`s death, it is well known that on December second of 1993 he was found with three shots in his body on the roof of a house in Medellin, what is currently a mystery is who was the responsible of his death, there are three possible options, Los Pepes, The Search Bloc or himself, this magnificent documentary explain each one.
-Los Pepes: In January of 1993 a group of people joined the search of Pablo Escobar, "Perseguidos por Pablo Escobar" or better known as Los Pepes, this group was formed by rival drug traffickers, paramilitaries, and others scorned by the Medellin cartel kingpin, their only purpose was to kill Escobar, this group was financed by the Cali cartel that was the biggest rival of the Medellin cartel, also this group had the support of the national government, According to some of the DEA documents the Colombian police cooperated with information, In early 1993 Los Pepes started killing people related with Escobar with the purpose of finding him, there were up to six killings a day. Diego Fernando Murillo an integrant of the “Autodefensas Unidas De Colombia” (AUC) and also a member of Los Pepes tells that his brother Rodolfo was the one who delivered the coup de grace, shooting Escobar in the head with an M-16, Murillo tells this story in his two books "Así matamos al patrón" and "la cacería de Pablo Escobar".
-Search Bloc: In 1989 after many violent attacks from Escobar to the forces and officials of the Colombian government, Virgilio Barco created a special police unit to deal with the kingpin and his cartel, this unit was supported by US special forces, US Army intelligence, and members of the CIA and Drug Enforcement Administration. On December 2 of 1993 one day after Escobar's birthday, The Search Bloc was able to converge on the house where Escobar was speaking on the phone with his son, then the unit enter into the house and find Escobar in the roof of the house, then he received three shots that killed him, then the coronel Hugo Martinez heard on his radio “!viva Colombia!”, “!Acabamos con Escobar!”, Mark Bowden tale all this story on his book “Killing Pablo”
-Himself: His son, Juan Pablo Escobar , who has changed his name to Sebastián Marroquín because he is living in Argentina, says that his father took his own life on that rooftop, "I have no doubt" that PEscobar planned his own death, Marroquín said in a 2014 interview, In his book, "Pablo Escobar: My Father" he detailed the basis for his claim. Escobar told his son numerous times that he would shoot himself in the head to avoid being captured alive, he said.
Juan Camilo García - 8C
Who killed Pablo Escobar?
In this documentary we're allowed to understand how children's live with this syndrome. But first, what is Tourette? Tourette is a nervous sister disorder which consists on unwanted movements or sounds, there's no cure but they're treatments. We followed three boys trough behavioral therapy at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, Callum, nine years old. Connor, twelve years old. Marco, ten years old.
Callum has uncontrollable movements, Connor says bad words and Marco produces briefing noises.
They assist to a especially national clinic were they make group therapies such as the anger therapy, which consist of letting go out the anger of not being able to control their actions.
Therapies used were: exposure and response prevention, used with Callum and Connor they're preventing the response and the response is a tic, Marco had habit reversal training.
Through first therapy Callum couldn't control it, Connor did it very well, he sat ayer 4 minutes without a tic and Marco, had a very stressed time by controlling his tics. They continued with their therapies at home and three weeks later, they went to their 2 lesson and they improved a hundred percent, they got the possibility of not having any tics for a time.
To the last session they all learned and forget about their problem for a moment, they lived a moment when they forgot they had tics and that the had Tourette.
Two months later, they got too far, they controlled their tics for so long, for example Callum which achieved being one hour without having any tic.
So, with this short film, in my opinion we learned that anything is possible, that you can achieve anything you want, you just have to make your best and give your best. They teach us that no matter what, you can be happy and you can do anything in life, that there's always some hope. They found out a way to stop tics for a moment, to control themselves, it’s a very good lesson for everyone. Science helped by trying to find out a way they could have a better life, they helped by promoting different therapies, definitely one of the best documentary of all.
Laura Gaitan 8c
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Kids with Tourette's: In their own words.