Virginia Vallejo – Official website

Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar 2007 & 2017

Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar 2018

Introduction

 

First part

The Days of Innocence and Reverie

Second part

The Days of Splendor and Horror

Third part

The Days of Absence and Silence

Virginia Vallejo y Pablo Escobar haciendo política en 1983.

Virginia and Pablo Escobar in his political campaign, 1983

Promoción del libro en el catálogo de un club de libros, 2008.

Promotion of Virginia’s book in a club catalog, 2008

Rafael Correa, presidente de Ecuador, enseña el libro de Virginia Vallejo a la prensa en 2008 y 2009.

Ecuador President Rafael Correa shows Virginia’s book in camera, 2008 and 2009.

Bestselling books of 2007 – 2008 in the United States: Obama’s, Hillary’s, Clinton’s, & Virginia’s

Bestselling books of 2007 – 2008 in the United States: Obama’s, Hillary’s, Clinton’s, & Virginia’s

Pablo Escobar is possibly the most famous criminal in recent history, and also the richest. He was a peasant, a novice politician, a billionaire, a terrorist, and the No. 1 enemy of the United States. During his reign as the head of the Medellín cartel, from 1978 to 1993, he amassed a fortune estimated at 25 billion dollars today.

Virginia Vallejo met Pablo Escobar in mid 1982, and they were lovers from 1983 to 1987. Her bestselling memoir, Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar translated to 15 languages – besides English and Spanish – is the only truly intimate biography of the head of the Medellín cartel, the only book that explains how he became so incredibly rich in just a few years, and the only love story about the legendary criminal.

Virginia Vallejo is also the only biographer of the narco terrorist that has endured brutal reprisals from the Colombian government, four presidential families in the payroll of the founder cartels, the army, the paramilitary squads, and the billionaires involved in massive money laundering.

When Random House Mondadori launched her book in Spanish on October 2007, it caused media frenzy. It was commented by heads of state, the FARC, human rights organizations, and international media like The New York Times, Time, and Newsweek.

Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar is also a historical document about the corruption of political Colombian dynasties, like the Santos and López families, that control the leading media and have become increasingly rich and powerful with their control of the media, and their association with the drug cartels, oil companies, and recently Odebrecht.

After Virginia ended her relationship with Escobar in 1987, she began cooperating with European anti-drug agencies.

On July 18th 2006, a special plane of the DEA took her out of Colombia to save her life and testify in high-profile criminal cases: the trial against the Cali Cartel bosses, the assassination of Senator Luis Carlos Galán in 1989, and the siege of the Palace of Justice in 1985.

In 2009, she survived a brutal attack from the government of President Álvaro Uribe and his defense minister, Juan Manuel Santos. She’s now a political asylee in the United States, and will never return to Colombia.

 

“Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar”
translated to 15 languages

Español 1ra edición, 2007

Spanish 1st edition, 2007

España y L. América, 2018

Spain and Latin America, 2018

Alemania, 2017

Germany, 2017

EE.UU. y Reino Unido 2018

U.S.A. and United Kingdom, 2018

Español EE.UU. 2018

U.S.A. Spanish 2018

Italia, 2017

Italy, 2018

Polonia, 2017

Poland, 2017

Eslovaquia, 2017

Slovakia, 2017

Finlandia, 2017

Finland, 2017

Holanda, 2017

The Netherlands, 2017

Portugal, 2018

Portugal, 2018

Grecia, 2017

Greece, 2017

Dinamarca, 2017

Denmark, 2017

Rusia, 2018

Russia, 2018

República Checa, 2017

Czech Republic, 2017

Hungría, 2017

Hungary, 2017

Brasil, 2017

Brazil, 2017

Rumania, 2018

Romania, 2018

France, 2018

France, 2018

 

Bestseller #1 in United States in 2007 & 2015