Palacio de Justicia Alfonso Reyes Echandia
Rebuilt courthouse on the site of a nineteen-eighty-five guerrilla siege that killed eleven Supreme Court justices.
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This guide to the Palacio de Justicia in Bogotá is named for chief justice Alfonso Reyes Echandía, and it opens on November 1985, when drug lord Pablo Escobar faced extradition to the United States while his case file sat inside this palace's archive awaiting a Supreme Court ruling. You'll hear what his former lover and his own hitman later testified he paid a guerrilla group to do, and what thirty-five fighters carried into the building the next morning. The guide follows the competing accounts of who set the fire that followed, and what it destroyed.
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