La parábola de Pablo. Auge y caída de un gran capo del narcotráfico / Pablo's Parable: The Rise and Fall of a Major Drug Kingpin

La parábola de Pablo. Auge y caída de un gran capo del narcotráfico / Pablo's Parable: The Rise and Fall of a Major Drug Kingpin

About the Book

Biografía definitiva de Pablo Escobar. Con realismo y gran sentido narrativo compone los claroscuros de uno de los peores criminales de la historia.

En La parábola de Pablo, Alonso Salazar presenta dimensiones íntimas, cuadros complejos, humanos y brutales del hombre que se convirtió en el mayor capo de la droga del mundo moderno y en un sanguinario que arrinconó a la sociedad en la que vivió con su imperio de poder, riqueza y delirio y su posterior caída.

Este libro inspiró la famosa serie El patrón del mal, cuya aparición 2012 le dio un segundo aire al libro. Para la presente recuperación en Debate tendremos un prólogo de Andrés Parra, el actor que hizo de Escobar en la serie.

Alonso Salazar es uno de los cronistas más lúcidos del país. No nacimos pa'semilla, Luis Carlos Galán, profeta en el desierto y No hubo fiesta. Crónicas de la revolución y la contrarrevolución, prueban su capacidad como periodista y su agudeza para abordar los temas más oscuros de la realidad nacional.

Descubre más sobre Pable Escobar en How to Become a Mob Boss, ahora una serie en Netflix.

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The complete biography of Pablo Escobar. With great realism and a great narrative sense, Salazar composes the chiaroscuro of one of the worst criminals in history.
 
In Pablo's Parable, Alonso Salazar presents intimate insights and a complex and brutal, yet human, picture of the man who became the biggest drug lord in the modern world, a bloodthirsty man who cornered the society in which he lived with his powerful empire, wealth, delusion, and his subsequent downfall.
 
This book inspired the famous TV series El patrón del mal / Pablo Escobar, the Drug Lord, whose 2012 launch gave new life to the book. This new edition now in Debate includes a prologue by Andrés Parra, the actor who played Escobar in the television series.
 
Alonso Salazar is one of Colombia’s most lucid chroniclers. We Were Not Born to Crop, Luis Carlos Galán, a Prophet in the Desert, and There Was No Party. Chronicles of the Revolution and the Counterrevolution, attest to his ability as a journalist and his sharpness when addressing the darkest issues in Colombia’s reality.

Discover more about Pablo Escobar in How to Become a Mob Boss, now streaming on Netflix.
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Alonso Salazar Jaramillo
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