"ln the 1980s, the nation Colombia is ravaged by violence, terrorized into submission by the world's most dangerous narcoterrorist, Pablo Escobar." "When the Colombian army fails to stop him," "United States Navy SEALs are sent in to help." "The mission to train the Colombians quickly spirals out of control and the SEALs find themselves in the line of fire." "ln 1961, an elite team of Special Forces was created for cover operations on the sea, air and land." "Their missions have been kept secret for national security reasons." "Who they are and what they do has remained shrouded in secrecy." "Now based on firsthand accounts of classified operations these are the untold stories of the Navy SEALs." "Medellin, Colombia, 1992." "The people of Colombia enjoyed what little peace they could find in a nation plagued by a drug war." "Once again, terror struck." "Another bombing." "After a decade of violence, the Medellin Drug Cartel had the government of its knees." "The man responsible was Pablo Escobar." "As the leader of the cartel, Escobar's power was unrivaled." "His three billion dollar cocaine empire made him one of the richest men in the world." "Escobar bought government officials like commodities." "Those who could not be bribed were assassinated." "The Medellin Cartel murdered 400 police officers and public officials in a six month period." "ln the early 1980s, the government of Colombia cracked down on the cocaine trade." "They began extraditing cartel leaders to the United States to stand trial." "Enraged by the threat of extradition," "Escobar retaliated with unbridled violence." "He launched a campaign of assassination, kidnapping and bombing." "Anyone who tried to investigate Pablo Escobar was systematically gunned down." "On November 6, 1985, he hired paramilitary guerillas to launch an attack on the Supreme Court in Bogota." "During the three day siege, over 90 people were killed, including 12 Supreme Court Justices." "All files relating to Escobar's pending extradition case were destroyed by fire." "During the 1989 Colombian elections, presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan was assassinated during a televised campaign rally." "He was an outspoken supporter of extradition." "Two other candidates were also murdered." "Assassins tried to kill a fourth candidate by putting a bomb on a commercial airliner." "The candidate wasn't on the plane." "130 innocent people paid for Escobar's mistake with their lives." "ln June of 1991, the Colombian government and Escobar made a deal." "Escobar agreed to end the violence and turn himself in." "ln exchange, the government banned extradition." "But Escobar had terms." "The prison would be of his design." "He built a compound he called "La Catedral" or "the Cathedral."" "Que vas a hacer esta noche, ah?" "The prison's amenities included a bar, a soccer field, a gym and several guest houses." "Si." "Even the guards were on Escobar's payroll." "The terms of the deal kept national police at least 12 miles away." "Despite his incarceration, the drug lord was as powerful as ever." "Anything and anyone Escobar wanted came and went without question." "Tenemos que tener la fiesta..." "For Escobar, La Catedral wasn't a prison, it was a fortress." "It saved him from extradition and protected him from rival drug cartels." "It also allowed him to conduct business as usual," "Que no me maten, por favor." "Come on." "No, no, no!" "even if that business included punishing disloyal associates." "Por favor, no me maten." "Pablo, Pablo, Pablo, por favor, mira." "Dicelo!" "No!" "Despite his deal with the government," "Escobar was still the most feared man in Colombia." "Stories about the drug lord's excesses appeared in the newspapers." "The Colombian public was outraged." "It was obvious to President Cesar Gaviria that appeasement and containment had failed." "...organizacion criminal que asesina..." "He was now determined to put Escobar in a real prison." "Gaviria ordered a massive raid on La Catedral to capture Escobar." "An entire army battalion was sent in, 400 troops in all." "But as the battalion approached the compound," "Escobar was already making his way down the other side of the mountain." "Habla." "The most dangerous narcoterrorist in history had just escaped from prison in an SUV." "Ah, esta Buena, verdad?" "Aja." "Y cuidado..." "Escobar's spies in the Colombian army had warned him in advance." "They also made sure his escape route wasn't covered." "Sicario." "Que lo estan buscando." "Escobar was now a fugitive and free to wreak havoc on Medellin." "The Colombian government turned to U.S. Ambassador Busby for help." "The ambassador was more than just a diplomat." "He was also an expert in counter terrorism." "Bienvenido, Embajador Busby." "It's a pleasure to see you again." "Nice to see you." "Busby was about to receive an unprecedented request from President Gaviria." "El Embajador Busby quiere verlo, senor Presidente." "Ah, muy bien." "Ahora lo atiendo." "Okay, he'll see you now." "Good." "He wanted U.S. troops to secretly assist in the capture of Pablo Escobar." "The American government had grave concerns about official military involvement in Colombia." "But U.S. President George Bush approved a small, covert mission as part of his administration's drug interdiction policy." "Within days, an unmarked private aircraft landed at a remote airstrip in the Colombian jungle." "lts cargo, a team of highly trained commandos from the U.S. Navy SEALs and the Army's Delta Force." "The men were taken to the United States Embassy in Bogota." "If you have any questions, just let me know." "All right?" "Fine, that sounds great for me." "Good." "To assure secrecy, Ambassador Busby briefed the team in a soundproof, windowless vault." "Good morning, gentlemen." "Frank, you will be working directly with Colonel Mejia." "Commanding the mission, Navy SEAL Lt. Frank Venegas, was a second generation Colombian American." "He would work closely with the head of the Colombian Secret Police." "Torrez, you will be in charge of providing..." "Second in command, Chief Pettty Officer Andre Torrez was an expert in covert operations." "Ortiz and Hicks are on loan from Delta Force." "He would provide tactical training to the Colombian forces." "ln a nutshell, what that means that no U.S. personnel participate..." "Members of the U.S. Army Delta Force would provide training on state-of-the-art surveillance and communications equipment." "All right." "Let's sit down..." "The team would have a strictly advisory role... to help the Colombian Secret Police capture Pablo Escobar." "U.S. personnel could train, advise and gather intelligence." "Had some Escobar activity..." "They were prohibited from participation in combat." "That's fbi's section of the city." "Also over here in..." "The American commandos were ordered to confront the world's most dangerous narcoterrorist... with both hands tied behind their backs." "...and old dilapidated buildings in this area." "All right, let's move on now to..." "They would work with an elite unit of the Colombian Secret Police, the Search Bloc." "It was created with one purpose, to capture Pablo Escobar." "Members of the Search Bloc were considered untouchable." "They were beyond the reach of Escobar's bribes." "Col. Hugo Mejia, the commander, handpicked his officers." "Their identities were kept secret to protect them and their families from assassination." "Colonel Mejia was a hardened veteran of Colombia's drug war." "Sigan practicando, muchachos." "He was skeptical of involving the Americans in the hunt for Escobar." "But he needed their stat of the art surveillance technology if he hoped to captured the drug lord." "La tecnologia esta muy avanzada." "Hemos capturado muchos..." "The Americans presented Mejia with their secret weapon." "Este avion parece un avion... lt looked like an ordinary Beechcraft commuter plane." "...meter 50 pasajeros y como mil libras..." "But inside it was filled with millions of dollars worth of top secret electronics and surveillance equipment." "The aerial surveillance mission against Escobar was code named "Centra Spike."" "It was designed to exploit the one gap in Escobar's security." "Quiero ver que vtilicen las fronteras para..." "He constantly used mobile phones to coordinate his drug empire." "...y despues se van por carretera a Texas." "Entiendes?" "20,000 feet over Medellin, the aircraft's sophisticated electronics intercepted Escobar's encrypted conversations." "A code breaking program quickly deciphered them." "...que utilicen las fronteras..." "The aircraft can also pinpoint the source of the phone signal to within 400 feet." "Bien." "Once the signal was found, it took only a few seconds to generate coordinates for the source." "Escobar's signal was pinpointed to a quiet suburb just outside Medellin." "The Search Bloc scrambled for an immediate raid." "They would surround the area on the ground and take him by force." "Tienen que atacar de esta forma..." "One unit hit the house." "Other units covered the roads in and out." "Escobar was cornered." "Or so they thought." "The house was empty." "He was never here." "Venegas criticized the Search Bloc's tactics." "The team was too large to be stealthy." "Escobar's spies had surely spotted the huge convoy and warned him." "Colonel Mejia defended his operation." "He was never here." "He was here." "He believed Centra Spike led them to the wrong location ...senales que recibi." "El nunca estuvo aqui." "El estuvo aqui pero se escucho hace unas millas atras." "El problema ahora son mis hombres." "As the Americans and the Colombians collided," "Pablo Escobar was on the move." "Oye, tengo un hambre." "The drug lord had established a series of hideouts throughout the Medellin area." "Busca, vamos a buscar algo por ahi." "He also had a vast network of spies and assassins to protect him." "Now, Escobar called that emergency plan into action." "The first joint U.S. Colombian effort to capture drug lord Pablo Escobar had failed." "The problem is not my men." "Navy SEAL Frank Venegas and Colombian Search Bloc Colonel Hugo Mejia faced an uneasy collaboration." "Venegas questioned the Colombian Colonel's commitment to the mission." "...Escobar, comprendes?" "No." "El nunca estuvo aqui." "Pues va a tener que aprender, comprendes?" "Este hombre asesinado..." "Colonel Mejia assured Venegas that bringing down Pablo Escobar was an extremely personal mission." "...todo por este hombre." "He showed Venegas photos of 65 Search Bloc officers he'd lost to Escobar's assassins." "...y como esa tengo 65 mas de hombres que han asesinado." "Escobar's men had repeatedly tried to kill Colonel Mejia and his family." "Yo no dudo tu dedicacion..." "He lived in constant fear." "...tacticas diferentes..." "Venegas was convinced of the Colonel's commitment." "...haciendole unas...ahi, hay 100 para conocer..." "Esta bien." "Yo personalmente..." "Mejia admitted he needed the SEALs' help." "...delas seis de la manana a las seis de la noche." "His men needed training." "Como usted quiera, como usted diga." "Usted me dice cuando y ahi estamos." "Only with mutual trust could the mission succeed." "Y hemos cambiado toditos los, todos los candados..." "The U.S. Navy SEALs developed an arduous training regimen for the Search Bloc officers." "Correr!" "Corre, carajo, corre, corre!" "A tierra!" "Correr, a tierra!" "For three solid months, they trained tirelessly." "Tactics, teamwork and marksmanship improved dramatically." "They were ready for another raid." "To catch Escobar, they would need to move lighter and faster." "Venegas recommended a surgical strike force inserted via helicopter." "...en la esquina aquella, okay?" "They raid would commence as soon as Centra Spike located Escobar and confirmed that he was holding his position." "Centra Spike pinpointed the source of Escobar's signal to a remote, unpopulated area north of the city." "He was still there at nightfall." "It was time to strike." "Moments later, the Search Bloc deployed in a Colombian army helicopter." "Faltan cinco munutos." "Although it was a combat mission, they were accompanied by members of the U.S. team." "Colombia's helicopter pilots were not yet trained in the latest night vision technology." "U.S. personnel provided on-the-job training." "Set her down slow!" "Night vision revealed the source of the signal, a small house nearly obscured by dense forest." "The team was forced to land the helicopter in a clearing several miles away." "A small unit of six men would move in on foot." "Bearing one, one, zero." "We're going to have to go east." "Okay." "Vete, vete." "Vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos..." "Venegas observed the Search Bloc's tactical skills as the team moved on the target." "Their training had paid off." "No, yo no he hecho nada, hermano." "Yo no hice nada." "Yo no hice nada, hermano." "Todos al piso!" "Todos al piso!" "The team searched the building." "Escobar was nowhere to be found." "Quien mas esta en la casa?" "Quien mas esta en la casa?" "No se, no se quien es Escobar." "But they found evidence he had been there and recently." "Mire, estos son de los que Escobar fuma." "Si?" "Esto es suyo?" "No." "Quien es entonces?" "No se, senor." "Conoce a Escobar?" "Este tabaco es suyo?" "Pablo." "Escobar always had a planned escape route." "But this time the escape was a narrow one." "He'd never come so close to being captured." "Extiendame la mano." "La mano." "Mejia and Venegas considered the raid a minor victory." "They were getting closer." "Donde esta Escobar?" "Hola jefe, acabo de despertar..." "Escobar had been on the run for five months and was feeling the pressure of the hunt." "Desea algo?" "Quizas le puedo conseguir otros tragos ahi... otra bebida." "Se acercaron demasiado." "He knew there was only one way Colombian forces could get so close, with help from the United States." "He wrote President Gaviria a letter and offered to surrender." "But only on his terms." "He would go back to prison, but only in La Catedral." "He demanded that the Search Bloc unit be disbanded and every officer in it fired." "If these terms were not met," "Escobar threatened to unleash another campaign of terror." "As usual, Escobar signed the letter with his signature and a thumb print." "The Colombian government refused Escobar's offer." "President Gaviria would settle for nothing less than unconditional surrender." "ln response, Escobar went deeper underground." "He stopped using his mobile phones and started using messengers to conduct business." "This made it impossible for Centra Spike to track him." "For three months, Escobar disappeared." "Entre mas alto rango, mas alta la recompensa." "Finally in the spring of 1993," "Escobar resumed using his mobile phone." "Although his conversations were now brief and infrequent Centra Spike found him." "Three, seven, Julia, Mike." "Que es lo que pasa?" "Tenemos las coordenadas, senor." "Ya?" "Once again, Escobar was located in the heart of Medellin." "Hombres, tengo una Buena noticia." "Hehad eluded capture for eight months and still remained in his hometown." "...dos millas, a dos millas de la residencia de Escobar." "Venegas refined the plan of attack." "...llegar por este lado, a dos millas de Escobar tambien." "A ground surveillance unit would go in first to monitor the hideout." "They needed to determine when Escobar was most vulnerable to capture." "They installed high powered remote cameras in a building a half mile from the hideout." "The cameras transmitted their signal to a van packed with surveillance equipment." "Este muchacho que esta aqui quien es?" "Greg Hicks, the Delta Force electronics expert, was teamed with Search Bloc Sergeant Gonzales." "They studied the movement of Escobar's men over a period of several days, looking for gaps in his personal security." "Ah, mira..." "They also monitored Escobar's sporadic mobile phone conversations." "Yo creo que es el..." "Si estamos aqui hasta la noche vamos a estar usando esto." "...evidence that he was still in the hideout." "Mira, ahi paso un carro." "Jovenes, quiero que sepan que hemos encontrado la residencia..." "Venegas briefed the men an hour before the raid to prevent security leaks." "Algunos de nosotros tenemos que atacar al otro lado..." "At nightfall, the commandos would surround the hideout from all sides and hold their positions." "Y unos de nosotros vamos a esperar a dos millas al oeste de la residencia de Escobar." "They would strike at dawn when Escobar was usually asleep." "But as the mission was about to begin," "Hicks eavesdropped on a call to Escobar's hideout." "Prueba." "Hicks was stunned." "Someone had tipped off Escobar again." "Colonel Mejia!" "This time the leak came from within the ranks of the Search Bloc." "...knows that we're coming." "Alto, muchachos!" "The mission had been betrayed by one of Mejia's most trusted officers." "The raid was aborted." "Escobar sabe que vamos a venir." "There was a traitor in their ranks." "Preparame el camion este." "Now Mejia and Venegas would have to find him." "Pablo Escobar had escaped from his luxury prison." "Haga lo que tiene que hacer." "The notorious drug lord was now a fugitive and free to resume his reign of terror." "Si, cuidado, ah?" "Navy SEALs and Delta Force commandos supported Colombian efforts to find him." "Aqui en la ciudad de Medellin." "After weeks of planning, a raid on Escobar's hideout had been compromised." "...tenemos que ir a la residencia de Escobar pero vamos a esperar toda la noche." "There was a traitor in the Colombian Secret Police." "...dos horas." "Comiencen a preparar..." "The unit's headquarters was locked down and an internal investigation was launched." "Every Search Bloc officer would be questioned." "Porque todos los telefonos van a ser bloqueados." "The locker, I'd ask for them right now, please." "Si tiene telefonos..." "Mobile phones were confiscated." "...de comunicacion, por favor entregarlo ahora." "The camp was thoroughly searched." "Gentlemen, if there's anything you..." "No Search Bloc officer was above suspicion." "Y tu has estado practicando..." "But the investigation went nowhere." "None of Mejia's officers had the opportunity to call Escobar and warn him." "...posible que oyo lo que estabamos diciendo." "Search Bloc support staff would have to be questioned." "Cuando..." "Anyone even loosely connected with the Search Bloc or its officers was under scrutiny." "Pero yo creo que..." "Que estaba haciendo usted anoche entre las siete y las ocho?" "Estaba trabajando" "Donde?" "En el helicoptero." "Mentira!" "A mechanic who worked on the airfield was interrogated." "Trabajando con el helicoptero..." "The call to Escobar's associates had been recorded." "Mira, el ataque de sorpresa va a ocurrir..." "De quien es esa voz entonces?" "...dos horas antes de la madrugada, oiste?" "No lo se, no soy yo." "Dos horas antes de la madrugada." "Mentira!" "The mechanic's voice matched the caller's voice on the surveillance tape." "Lo tuve que hacer." "Yo tengo familia e iban a matar a mi familia." "The mechanic confessed." "Tengo esposa y tengo hijos." "He admitted he had been forced to spy by a Search Bloc officer." "Yo tengo esposa, tengo..." "He dared not resist." "The man had threatened to kill his family." "Lo siento." "He gave Mejia the officer's name." "But before the officer could be confronted, he was found dead." "Escobar had infiltrated even the secret and protected Search Bloc." "Escobar lo asesino para que no pudiera hablar." "If Venegas couldn't trust his Colombian counterparts, the mission was doomed to failure." "But Escobar had his own traitors." "Hello, Miss Montoya." "Welcome." "Maria Montoya was one of them." "Would you please, will you have a seat?" "Escobar had executed her husband, a high ranking member of the Medellin Drug Cartel." "Now I understand that you might have some information..." "Mucha informacion para el." "Now, Maria feared for her own life." "Ask her what type of thing she has for us?" "Que informacion..." "She contacted the ClA and offered them a deal." "ln exchange for protection, she would tell them anything they wanted to know about the man who killed her husband." "Let me get these..." "Y quien mas, me quiere dar algo mas?" "Maria's knowledge of Escobar's business dealings were impressive." "Jose Leon." "Jose Leon?" "She had also compiled detailed notes on the structure of his massive organization." "It's all right." "Okay." "With her help, they constructed an extensive chart listing almost a thousand Escobar associates." "Pablo Estrada." "His lawyers, bankers, money launderers and assassins were named." "So Estrada and..." "Never before had someone from inside" "Escobar's organization dared to come forward." "Okay. I'm going to post these very quickly and then we'll move on." "ln a matter of days, she provided more intelligence information than the Colombian government had amassed in ten years." "...at the warehouse." "The Search Bloc changed their tactics." "Instead of going after Escobar directly, they would dismantle his cartel." "Pedro Martinez." "His lawyers and business associates were caught off guard." "Parese!" "Lo arrestamos, senor." "Parese!" "Ponganle las esposas." "Lo arrestamos, senor." "Evidence found in their offices confirmed their involvement in the Medellin Cartel." "Toditos." "Cojanlo todo." "Mira en los gabinetes a ver que hay." "Ahi." "Lievate eso." "Escobar's assassins, the men who did his dirty work, were more difficult to find." "Surveillance teams combed Medellin neighborhoods following mobile phone traffic." "After a week of searching, they got a break." "Vamos..." "They locked onto a signal and heard Escobar's most dangerous assassin identify himself." "...que yo no te voy a echar para alla porque yo soy tu amigo." "The assassin's nickname was Sicario." "Pero que relajo aqui?" "Esto es serio." "Feeling the heat, he was laying low in an apartment in Medellin." "Within hours, the Search Bloc was deployed to the apartment building to make the arrest." "Dime lo que pasa." "As the raid began, the assassin was speaking to none other than Pablo Escobar." "Aja." "Yo no voy..." "Sicario told his boss that he was being tailed by the Search Bloc." "They were hoping he would lead them to Escobar." "Pero, pero, pero..." "Pues mira,..." "Escobar was amused." "...te buscan a ti, no a mi, eh?" "He informed Sicario that he was the target." "The Search Bloc was after him." "A mi?" "The element of surprise was lost." "Position?" "No, no, no..." "Escobar just told Sicario that we're after him and he knows we're here." "Tell them to abort the raid." "Aborten la mision, aborten la mision!" "But it was too late." "The Search Bloc stormed the building." "Sicario was ready and waiting." "Members of the Colombian Search Bloc were pinned down in a gun battle with Pablo Escobar's right hand man." "Sigue, sigue!" "Sigue, sigue!" "Sigue, sigue!" "The assassin was down,... but the team was ambushed from below by more of Escobar's men." "They were trapped and taking heavy fire." "Sigue para arriba, sigue para arriba!" "Estan disparando." "Keep monitoring the radio." "Call for reinforcements." "Chief Pettty Officer Torrez ran to the building to help." "He was breaking orders to assist the men he had trained." "Torrez provided cover as Search Bloc Sergeant Ernesto got off a shot." "The firefight was over." "Yo, puercos, a ustedes los voy a matar toditos." "The assassin was dead." "Que paso?" "Y como paso eso?" "A Search Bloc officer claimed it was a lucky shot." "Okay." "But to Torrez, it looked like an execution style wound." "The Search Bloc officer stuck to his story." "Mire, este hombre..." "Colonel Mejia's drawer now overflowed with photos of dead Escobar associates." "El unico balazo que tiene tambien?" "Si." "Most had execution style wounds, even though the official cause of death was always listed as" ""killed in a gun battle with the Colombian police."" "...mandando a matar gente." "Estas seguro que tu no estas mandando a matar gente?" "Navy SEAL Commander Venegas suspected that his Colombian counterparts were behaving more like a death squad than an elite fighting force." "Bueno, como yo le explique, murieron en un ataque con la policia." "But the Search Bloc was not the only group going after Escobar's associates." "A group of outraged citizens began taking the law into their own hands, murdering as many as five of Escobar's associates per day." ""Los Pepes" or "People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar"" "targeted Escobar's friends, family and property." "They left their signature by hanging signs around the necks of their victims." "Escobar's vast organization was shrinking." "Five members of Escobar's extended family had been killed." "Aja." "Escobar now feared for the safety of his own wife and children." "Bueno, mandele 20 mil." "He used his connections to quickly obtain visas for his family and their bodyguards." "Bien." "They boarded a flight to Germany." "Ponga atencion, Escobar." "With his wife and children out of the country," "Escobar was now free to retaliate." "Entre mas alto rango mas alta la recompensa." "Despite all efforts to shut him down, more than half of his organization was still intact." "Escobar put a price on the head of each and every member of the Search Bloc." "The higher the rank, the higher the reward." "He resumed bombing government targets." "The country braced itself for a new campaign of terror." "But Escobar was stopped in his tracks." "Two days after they left, the family and their bodyguards were forced to return." "The German government turned them away." "Their arrival in Colombia created a media frenzy." "With the press broadcasting their every move, they were at serious risk of assassination by Los Pepes." "Senor Presidente?" "Pablo Escobar." "Escuche." "Dios te libre a ti y al pais de Colombia..." "The drug lord was enraged." "He phoned President Gaviria and demanded government protection for his family." "...el gobierno de Alemania." "The family was moved to a hotel staffed by undercover Search Bloc officers." "They would be safe from Los Pepes, but their conversations with Escobar could now be monitored." "Bienvenidos a mi oficina, caballeros." "Just as the net was closing in on Escobar, the mission came under the scrutiny of the U.S. government." "We appreciate you seeing us on such short notice." "There was an obvious correlation between the people killed by Los Pepes and the Search Bloc's list of suspects." "...and the third man, Ramirez." "What can you tell me about these officers?" "If the Search Bloc was indeed working with Los Pepes to murder suspects," "U.S. forces could be implicated in the unlawful assassination of foreign nationals." "...match this organizational chart." "No." "Colonel Mejia denied any connection between his unit and the vigilantes." "They're doing it." "He suggested Los Pepes had gathered their own intelligence." "Let me tell you what I think." "The pattern is just a coincidence." "Their suspects simply coincided with his own." "Frank, your team is in violation..." "The Pentagon and the U.S. State Department advised Ambassador Busby of their concern." "Okay?" "They feared the SEALs would be caught in the middle of an international incident." "You are going to be replaced by conventional forces." "They were pulling the plug on the mission." "And you will be leaving country within 30 days back to your posts in the United States." "Venegas' team would be ordered out of Colombia just when they had Escobar on his knees." "That's all, gentlemen." "For over 15 months, a joint SEAL Delta Force team had assisted the Colombian Secret Police in their search for Pablo Escobar." "Habla." "Aja." "Gentlemen..." "At the U.S. Embassy," "Ambassador Busby relayed troubling news." "U.S. Special Forces were about to be replaced by conventional forces." "You're in violation, gentlemen." "Now you will be replaced..." "Over a year of hard work would be lost." "...by conventional forces, will be..." "Worse, Escobar would continue to terrorize the country." "That's it." "The SEAL Delta team had just 30 more days in Colombia." "It was their last chance to get Escobar." "Tenemos 30 dias." "Si." "They would have to do it without Centra Spike's sophisticated surveillance aircraft." "The plane had been ordered out of the country." "Estamos activando este equipo avanzado para poder capturar a Escobar." "Desperate, Venegas and his team improvised." "They rigged a helicopter to carry more primitive electronic surveillance gear." "Ojala con tu ayuda podamos cogerlo." "Oh, si." "The chopper was not nearly as accurate as Centra Spike." "It was unable to pinpoint signals as precisely, but it was all they had." "Once it located a signal... ground surveillance units were dispatched to the area to isolate its source." "But Escobar had another trick up his sleeve." "He routed his mobile phone signal through a more powerful transmitter." "Vamonos de aqui." "He had eluded them once again." "Over a year on the run had taken its toll on Escobar." "Esto se va a terminar esta noche." "Ya me estoy cansando de esta vaina." "The Search Bloc and Los Pepes had reduced his massive organization to a skeleton crew." "Ya estamos en la ciudad." "His cash flow was now a trickle." "His bankers were in jail and his money laundering machine was crippled." "Escobar also worried about the safety of his family." "He called them every night, usually at the same time." "Jose." "During one call, Sergeant Hicks got what he thought was a sure fix on Escobar's location." "But it led to an empty intersection." "Again, Escobar slipped through the net." "With the Search Bloc on his heels, he was in constant motion." "Pan y agua." "A few days later, the fugitive drug lord learned that the American surveillance plane had left Colombia." "...negocio, entiendes?" "He let his guard down and resumed making calls from fixed locations." "Dejame con tu madre." "The helicopter picked up Escobar's signal." "Tenemos que esperar a dos millas..." "He was tracked to a suburban neighborhood of Medellin called Los Olivos." "...toda la noche." "Algunos de nosotros a las 5 de la madrugada..." "The best the helicopter could do was track him to within a 15 block radius." "...y vamos a atacar a las 5de la manana." "Asi que unos..." "They would have to rely on the ground based surveillance team to pinpoint his exact location." "...tenemos que esperar aqui dos millas." "The surveillance van spent two days prowling the streets of the city." "Head east." "Signal strength's increasing..." "Hicks and Ernesto scanned the airwaves waiting to intercept Escobar's next call." "I'm getting a signal." "Aqui no hay nada, un crece..." "Un cruce..." "On December 2nd, 1993, they finally picked up his signal." "Okay, stop, stop." "They pulled over as the signal peaked." "Escobar could be anywhere within a four block radius." "Asi, uno de estos." "Positive." "Sergeant Ernesto studied the buildings along the block." "Then movement in one window caught his eye." "Vi a Escobar." "Donde?" "Segundo piso." "Estoy seguro." "Sure." "Elemento, hay estas coordenadas." "Dale estas coordenadas." "Dale las coordenadas, me voy." "Vamos." "Sargento Hicks, estoy en casa de sargento Ernesto acaba de ver..." "While Sergeant Hicks called for backup," "Sergeant Ernesto covered the exits to prevent Escobar's escape." "Sargento Ernesto acaba de ver a Escobar en el Segundo piso en la calle..." "Backup arrived in minutes." "...tres, por alla, Escobar esta en el..." "Mejia and his men quickly surrounded the building trapping Escobar and his body guard inside." "As much as the Americans wanted to help, they were only allowed to support the mission from outside." "Escobar and his bodyguard were alerted by the arriving vehicles." "They escaped out a back window and onto the roof." "But Escobar was now dealing with a superbly trained Colombian force." "The Search Bloc closed in." "The bodyguard laid down cover fire so Escobar had a fighting chance of escaping." "The bodyguard took a fatal shot." "Escobar was cornered." "Escobar was hit in the leg and the back, but he was still alive." "Bueno, que esta pasando ahi?" "Mira, esta muerto, lo cogimos." "A Search Bloc officer put an end to Escobar's reign of terror." "The official medical report said" "Escobar died from a point blank gunshot wound to the head." "Sigue, sigue, apurense!" "The shooter remains anonymous." "For the Navy SEALs and Delta Force, the mission was over." "But the end of Escobar did not signal the end of the drug war." "Today, rebel guerillas partnered with new cartels have filled the vacuum left by Escobar's death." "U.S. Forces continue what the covert teams began." "They provide training and intelligence support to Colombian troops in their ongoing effort to staunch the flow of drugs." "ln the controversial war on drugs, the United States Navy SEALs helped the Colombian government win a major battle." "Ya casi vamos llegando." "Cuanto falta?" "It remains to be seen whether the war itself will ever be won." "Thank for your watching."