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TIL Pablo Escobar murdered a Presidential candidate/The secretary of Justice/The inspector General/various congressman/kidnapped the future president/murdered the Chief editor of the biggest Newspaper/and bankrolled an operation that ended with the death of almost all the supreme court justices

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