PABLO ESCOBAR
This Soccer Team Is on a U.S. Government Blacklist for Its Ties to Narco-Trafficking
One of Colombia's main pipelines of soccer talent has long been associated with one of the country's most dangerous cartels, and the U.S. has finally taken notice.
James Rodriguez, Envigado F.C., and the Long Shadow of Pablo Escobar
More than two decades after the death of cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, Colombia and its soccer tradition is entering a new era—even as Escobar's influence remains visible.
Pablo Escobar’s Brother Is a Pretty Weird Dude
Pablo Escobar's brother, Roberto, used to be the accountant responsible for the cartel's billions of dollars. Now, he operates their old house in Medellin, Colombia, as a museum and claims he's curing AIDS by studying horses.
VICE News Capsule - Thursday, August 28
Peru's biggest cocaine bust of the year, chief assassin under Pablo Escobar freed and more.
Pablo Escobar's Notorious Hitman Is Released Amid Controversy and Fear
Jhon Jairo Velázquez, a.k.a Popeye, was a top assassin for the Medellin Cartel. He claimed to have killed 300 people and helped murder another 3,000.
Cooking with Cocaine
VICE News went to Colombia for a look inside the modern-day cocaine industry and see how its been transformed.
Cooking with Cocaine
VICE News traveled to Medellin to meet gang members—along with top cartel leaders and assassins—who revealed the inner workings of the city's modern-day cocaine industry.
Drug Traffickers Build the Best Theme Parks
To get to Hacienda Nápoles you have to take a three-and-a-half hour bus from Medellín to the small town of Doradal, and from there it’s another ten minutes on an auto-rickshaw to the main gates. They remain there as Pablo Escobar designed them.
Griselda Blanco: So Long and Thanks for All the Cocaine
Griselda Blanco was killed outside a butcher shop in Colombia yesterday when two men on a motorcycle put two bullets into her head. Despite the location, this was unlikely a beef about beef (zing!), and probably had more to do with the scores of people...
Colombia Fashion Week
Fashion Week Internationale heads to Medellin for Colombia Fashion Week. Formerly the old stomping ground of Pablo Escobar, the city is now trying to throw off his powdery legacy and push fashion up the noses of the world.
Colombia Fashion Week
VICE heads to Medellin for Colombia Fashion Week. Charlet, your host, goes to two rival fashion weeks running simultaneously and is presented with two very different ideas about what Colombian beauty is.
Colombia Fashion Week
Charlet is entertained by Roberto Escobar, brother of the late cocaine magnate, Pablo. He's blind, but that's OK because he still has a nose for pretty women. If you don't like seeing body parts being sliced into, you won't like this episode very much...