Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's former chief hitman Jhon Jairo 'Popeye' Velasquez has died of cancer today at the age of 57.

Velasquez served a life sentence after admitting to killing 300 people and ordering the deaths of 3,000 more as he violently enforced Escobar's legendary reign of terror.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7974383/amp/Drug-lord-Pablo-Escobars-feared-chief-hitman-Jhon-Jairo-Popeye-Velasquez-dies-cancer-aged-57.html

The heartless assassin - who once described killing as 'like a day at the office' was jailed in 1993 the year Escobar was gunned down by police in his home town of Medellin but was released in 2014.

Velasquez then went into hiding for several years fearing reprisals from his victim's families and members of the Medellin Cartel he helped to convict in return for a lighter sentence.

He was arrested again in May 2018 on suspicion of extortion and conspiracy and had been back behind bars since then.

Heartless: Escobar's right-hand man, Vasquez (as a young man) says he feels no guilt for the hundreds he murdered because they were all casualties of 'the war'

He said: 'I'm also a victim of Don Pablo. I was not responsible for the assassinations.

I was a professional killer and nowadays I have reconsidered it. I am a repented and reformed man.'

As Escobar's head hitman, 'Popeye' executed either personally or on his orders thousands of people deemed to be a threat to his cocaine trafficking empire, including policemen, journalists, politicians and judges, while innocent civilians were also inevitably caught up in the carnage.



Velasquez, aka 'Popeye', visits the tomb of his former boss Pablo Escobar at the Montesacro Cemetery in Medellin in 2015.

Escobar was shot dead by police in Medellin in 1993.

He kidnapped and tortured a future Colombian president and vice-presidents, he killed an Attorney General, and helped plot the murder of Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, the only murder out of thousands for which he was actually convicted.

By the time he was arrested in 1992, he had killed over 250 people with his own hands including his own girlfriend detonated over 250 car bombs.


He was linked to the 1989 bombing of an Avianca jet, which killed 107 people, just to assassinate one traveller, another presidential candidate.

He'd be Burning in the deepest part of hell as we speak

Igbos drug lord disgracing Nigeria abroad may y'all end like this. insha Allah

Even the deadliest of them all also dies... No man good or evil lives forever!

My uncle was also a hit man

Braintrain:
My uncle was also a hit man

Do you mind sharing his story while keeping his identity anonymous ?

tyup:
He'd be Burning in the deepest part of hell as we speak

Igbos drug lord disgracing Nigeria abroad may y'all end like this. insha Allah

Aboki , e na adi ka nsi efi
Ezi

Kpokrikpo:
Aboki , e na adi ka nsi efi Ezi

you don't even know what ur saying

tyup:


you don't even know what ur saying

U don't understand what I'm saying
Ezi

There’s never going to be a drug lord like Pablito, that man was a dynamo!!

If not for the killings he for be my mentor!

Welcome to KarmaLand!

Explorers:


He was linked to the 1989 bombing of an Avianca jet, which killed 107 people, just to assassinate one traveller, another presidential candidate.

This is Deep!

tyup:
He'd be Burning in the deepest part of hell as we speak

Igbos drug lord disgracing Nigeria abroad may y'all end like this. insha Allah

Will you keep quiet!! Who is talking about IPOB here?

Explorers:
He kidnapped and tortured a future Colombian president and vice-presidents, he killed an Attorney General, and helped plot the murder of Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, the only murder out of thousands for which he was actually convicted.

By the time he was arrested in 1992, he had killed over 250 people with his own hands including his own girlfriend detonated over 250 car bombs.


He was linked to the 1989 bombing of an Avianca jet, which killed 107 people, just to assassinate one traveller, another presidential candidate.

Nahh ,this man is satan in human form.

This one strong oo

Lets see if he will hide from his victims in hell

tyup:
He'd be Burning in the deepest part of hell as we speak

Igbos drug lord disgracing Nigeria abroad may y'all end like this. insha Allah

Ya diri gi ka I si cherem MNK
Iseeeeeee!

It takes a psychopath to kill that many people and not be troubled by it.

Reminds me of the movie Goodfellas.

Explorers:
He kidnapped and tortured a future Colombian president and vice-presidents, he killed an Attorney General, and helped plot the murder of Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, the only murder out of thousands for which he was actually convicted.

By the time he was arrested in 1992, he had killed over 250 people with his own hands including his own girlfriend detonated over 250 car bombs.


He was linked to the 1989 bombing of an Avianca jet, which killed 107 people, just to assassinate one traveller, another presidential candidate.

Damn!! This dude needs be brought back to life ND RE-killed again but this time in a slow but very excruciating manner.....This dude really was a beast in human form!!

RIP? Nah.

This man brutal

Pablo Escobar my hero


I so much love that man

DelTel:


This is Deep!

Baba don't Bleep with a drug cartel oh! Those guys are ready to lose 10mil in order to recover just 1m.


Crazy sets of people

tyup:
He'd be Burning in the deepest part of hell as we speak

Igbos drug lord disgracing Nigeria abroad may y'all end like this. insha Allah

just say Igbos. Stop being a coward

Explorer on the beat.


Trapping like the narco
Got dope like Pablo
Cut throat like Pablo
Chop trees with the Draco
On the Nawf, got Diego
Saying hasta luego (luego)
Muy Bien wrapping kilos
Snub nose with potatoes


Pablo Escobar was just too ruthless

Dare devil. Even devil is marveled

There is actually a movie series about him, telling his story shortly after Pablo’s death.....too bad I can’t recollect the name again but it’s in Spanish and subtled to English

tyup:
He'd be Burning in the deepest part of hell as we speak

Igbos drug lord disgracing Nigeria abroad may y'all end like this. insha Allah

Hell fire prepared by you abi? My friend wake up this is 2020