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Escobar always had a soft spot for his family; his children were his Achilles' heel, and the authorities planned to exploit this weakness. The lingering threat was palpable, as Escobar himself had been on the run for 16 months. He was no longer the omnipotent drug lord who could once orchestrate terror across Colombia but rather a man forced to live without the power he once wielded. The Colombian police considered the Escobar family bait, calculating that Escobar would make a critical mistake in his desperation to reunite with them.