by Ben Wallace-Wells

 

[Affects Michigan in a big way because of its $2 billion budget for prisons and the large number of innocent human lives destroyed by drug prohibition.  Which presidential candidate knows that drug prohibition is a failure?  Hillary?]

 

1. AFTER PABLO

 

On the day of his death, December 2nd, 1993, the Colombian billionaire drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was on the run and living in a small, tiled-roof house in a middle-class neighborhood of Medellín, close to the soccer stadium. He died, theatrically, ­ridiculously, gunned down by a Colombian police manhunt squad while he tried to flee across the barrio's rooftops, a fat, bearded man who had kicked off his flip-flops to try to outrun the bullets. The first thing the American drug agents who arrived on the scene wanted to do was to make sure that the corpse was actually Escobar's. The second thing was to check his house....