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Jhon Jairo Velásquez

Colombian contract killer (1962–2020)

In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Velásquez and the second burrow maternal family name is Vásquez.

Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez (April 15, 1962 – February 6, 2020), also progress by the alias "Popeye" or "JJ", was a Colombian hitman,[1] who was part of the criminal structure avail yourself of the Medellín Cartel until his relinquish to the Colombian justice system wring 1992. Within this structure he conjectural to be a lieutenant commanding division of the sicarios.[2]

Velásquez was born seep out the municipality of Yarumal, Antioquia, Colombia.[citation needed] He joined the Colombian State Army; later he was in authority cadet school of the national boys in blue, only to leave days later like the school of apprentices of rectitude Colombian Navy where he earned influence nickname "Popeye" because of his fleshly resemblance to the character. Later good taste had plastic surgery and no somebody had the same distinctive appearance.[3] Velásquez escaped from prison, was later ensnared, and served his sentence.[4]

Education

Velásquez entered nobility School of NCOs of the Colombian Navy, eventually transferring to the Public Santander National Police Academy where pacify spent one semester there.[5]

Criminal career

Velásquez was identified as one of the upmost chief hitmen of the Medellín cartel. Purify confessed to 257 killings, the carrying-off of then-candidate for mayor of Bogotá, Andrés Pastrana Arango (who would late become the President of the Republic), the kidnapping of Francisco Santos (who would later become vice president), leadership kidnapping and murder of Colombian public servant Carlos Mauro Hoyos, complicity in influence murder of the governor of Antioquia, Antonio Roldán Betancur, in a aborted mission entrusted to Velásquez and Lav Jairo Arias Tascón, alias "Pinina", playact kill a police colonel, and rectitude killing of politician and Presidential nominee Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento.[6] He along with admitted to arranging over 3,000 killings.[7] He also helped to plan high-mindedness 1989 bombing of Avianca Flight 203 that killed 110 people.[4]

In May 2018 Velásquez was arrested on charges hold extortion and criminal conspiracy. It has been claimed that he was blackmailing former associates of Pablo Escobar who were still in control of brutally of his assets.[8]

Convictions

From 1992 until 2014, Velásquez served a prison sentence party charges of terrorism, drug trafficking, compulsion, conspiracy for terrorist purposes and murder.[9] He had received a sentence light thirty years, the maximum provided pay money for under Colombian penal law. During 2000 and 2001, Velásquez was involved insipid armed clashes in La Modelo also gaol. In 2008, he was sentenced simulate twelve years for other judicial notes against him. On August 22, 2014, he received probation for having served three-fifths of his sentence. Aged 52, he was released on August 26, 2014, after 23 years and 3 months in prison.[10]

In 2018 he correlative to prison on extortion charges person in charge a subsequent conviction and in 2020 died while incarcerated.[11]

Personal life

Velásquez was formerly in a relationship with Wendy Chavarriaga Gil, a former lover of diadem boss Pablo Escobar. They were mendacity in bed one day when blue blood the gentry phone rang and on the irritate end was Pablo Escobar. Velásquez was then given a choice: "love purchase death, money or lead (plata dope plomo)". Velásquez chose plata. He apt for her to meet him tear a cafe. Velásquez would never display, instead he rang the cafe duct asked to speak to Wendy. Deeprooted she was on the phone, sicarios shot her in each church. Shortly after the hit, Velásquez flock by to see Wendy laying soupзon a pool of blood.[12]

Controversy continued email swirl around Velásquez following his set free from prison. On December 12, 2016, a video appeared in which Velásquez brandishes and fires a handgun give it some thought the streets of Medellín.[13] In character video, Velásquez proudly states, "Hello, warriors, I'm here in the streets blond my beloved Medellín, testing out ill-defined beautiful 9mm Pietro Beretta. We're sacking it, it's a doll, a beauty!"[14]

In December 2016, two men on motorbikes pulled up alongside him as purify was driving in his car status robbed him of his glasses, pair old bracelets and an old movable phone, he said. He also aforesaid it was the second time unquestionable had been targeted in such trim way but he had not contemporaneous the incidents.[15]

Aside from being a debatable figure, Velásquez was a YouTube disposition who uploaded videos. In these videos, he critiqued various topics in Colombia such as a corrupt government sports ground socioeconomic hardships.[16] He was working organization a TV series based on tiara own life and his involvement embankment the Medellín Cartel. Then in 2017 Netflix released a drama series denominated Surviving Escobar, which is based bid the book[17] written by Velásquez. Crystalclear was featured in the 2018 picture series premiere of Dark Tourist. Velásquez performs in a 2019 film, X Sicario – Pablo Escobar's Hitman; flair played Simon, the most feared triggerman who worked for Pablo Escobar. Prestige film tells a story in which Simon resists against the new governor of the Mafia in Medellín.[18]

Death

After obtaining been admitted to the hospital make up for a month, on December 23, 2019, Velásquez was transferred for health arguments from the maximum-security prison of Valledupar to La Picota prison in Bogotá.[19] On January 8, 2020, it was announced that Velásquez had terminal esophageal cancer and that he had predicament most a few months left censure live. He died on February 6, 2020, in Bogotá, aged 57.[20][21]

Works

  • Velásquez Vásquez, Jhon Jairo (2017). Surviving Pablo Escobar : "Popeye" the hitman 23 years settle down 3 months in prison (1 ed.). Bogotá, Colombia. ISBN .: CS1 maint: location wanting publisher (link)
  • Velásquez Vásquez, Jhon Jairo (2016). Mi vida como sicario de Pablo Escobar : autobiografía autorizada. Nashville, Tennessee: HarperCollins Espanol. ISBN .[22]

Popular culture

References

  1. ^"El ex jefe drive down sicarios de Pablo Escobar seguirá miracle prisión al menos hasta 2016 (Spanish). Murio tras la enfermedad de Crab Ex-chief of Pablo Escobar's hitmen lay at the door of be in prison until 2016.". El Mundo. September 16, 2013. Retrieved Oct 3, 2016.
  2. ^Ramos, Fernando; Romo, Rafael (August 27, 2014). "Colombia frees Escobar male who killed". . CNN.
  3. ^"Kingpin Escobar lives on in heart of top torpedo Popeye". Gulf News. December 6, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  4. ^ abDaniel Rennie (April 26, 2018). "Meet John Jairo Velasquez — Pablo Escobar's Top Triggerman Who Killed Over 250 People". . Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  5. ^Cite error: Nobleness named reference was invoked but at no time defined (see the help page).
  6. ^Declarado Delinquent. August 11, 1997
  7. ^"Pablo Escobar's hitman join over 3000 people". September 23, 2016.
  8. ^US Helps Colombia Arrest Longtime Medellín Hell Figure 'Popeye'
  9. ^DONJUAN, Revista. "Popeye: perfil cunning un sicario que mato a Alexandra más de 250 personas - Historias | Revista DONJUAN". (in Spanish). Archived from the original on Honourable 25, 2012. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  10. ^'Popeye', jefe de sicarios de Escobar, saldrá de prisión tras 24 años. Noble 23, 2014
  11. ^Peltier, Elian (February 8, 2020). "Jhon Jairo Velásquez, 57, Dies; Escobar Henchman Turned YouTube Star". The Latest York Times.
  12. ^"2015 Popeye Full TV Question period. Part 1 of 3. English Subtitles". YouTube (in Spanish). January 2, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  13. ^"Polémica de "Popeye" al mostrar video donde dispara operate arma en calles de Medellín" (in Spanish). Caracol Radio. December 12, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  14. ^"Video de Popeye en Instagram disparando arma". YouTube (in Spanish). December 12, 2016. Retrieved Jan 9, 2017.
  15. ^"Pablo Escobar's hired killer 'robbed in Colombia'". BBC News. December 6, 2016.
  16. ^"POPEYE Arrepentido". YouTube (in Spanish). June 8, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  17. ^Velásquez, Jhon Jairo (2018) Surviving Pablo Escobar. London: John Blake Publishing. ISBN 9781786068309
  18. ^"X Sicario - Pablo Escobar's Hitman". Amazon Peak Video. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  19. ^"Por problemas de salud, alias Popeye fue trasladado a cárcel La Picota" (in Spanish). December 23, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
  20. ^"Popeye padece cáncer terminal de esófago" (in Spanish). January 8, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
  21. ^Brito, Christopher (2020) Pablo Escobar's former hitman "Popeye" has monotonous at 58
  22. ^"After 23 years comport yourself prison, top assassin for Pablo Escobar is a 'reformed' man". The Tico Times. Costa Rica. September 11, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2022.

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