Colombian army unit seized the luxurious building 'Monaco' of Pablo Escobar in Medellin, Colombia, august 1989. The concrete 'Monaco' building in the Colombian city of Medellin, once home to drug baron Pablo Escobar, is set to be razed to the ground on February 22, 2019 with explosives to make way for a park dedicated to the victims of the Colombia's drug war. The city was at the centre of the conflict largely due to Escobar, who ran the cartel that at its peak supplied 80 per cent of America's cocaine. Appearing like a fortress with a penthouse apartment on top, the Edificio Monaco was home to Escobar and his family until rivals set off a car bomb outside in 1988. They vacated not long after. In the place of the uninhabited structure in El Poblado, an exclusive neighbourhood of Medellin, will be built a 5,000 square meter commemorative space to honor the thousands of victims killed during the 1980s and 90s as drug traffickers fought a bloody war against the authorities. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM