ColombiaS Notorious Fugitives
In the gritty underworld of 1980s Colombia, the notorious Pablo Escobar and his band of drug kingpins, dubbed “Los Extraditables,” fiercely opposed U.S. extradition with a chilling credo: “Better a tomb in Colombia than a cell in the U.
S.” Their battle reached a fever pitch in 1985 when the M-19 guerillas, allegedly backed by Escobar, launched a deadly assault on Colombia’s Supreme Court, obliterating extradition documents and leaving half the judiciary slain in a bid to rewrite the nation’s laws with blood..