FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, Jhon Jairo Velasquez, a former hit man for Pablo Escobar, known by his nickname "Popeye," gives his testimony while holding a book titled "The True Pablo, ...

Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s top hitman has died after a battle with cancer. Jhon Jairo Velasquez Vasquez, known as “Popeye,” died Thursday morning from cancer at the age of 57. He had been ...

A man who had oversight over a web of assassins working for the infamous drug trafficker Pablo Escobar is dead. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, also known as "Popeye," died on February 6 at the National ...

Jhon Jairo “Popeye” Velásquez, the former enforcer for drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, died Thursday in Colombia from stomach cancer. Velásquez, who was sentenced to prison on extortion charges in May ...

A former hitman for late drug lord Pablo Escobar who confessed to killing hundreds of people during one of Colombia’s most violent periods died Thursday from cancer, prison authorities said. Jhon ...

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BOGOTA, ColombiaBOGOTA, Colombia — A former hit man for late drug lord Pablo Escobar who confessed to killing hundreds of people during one of Colombia’s most violent periods died Thursday from cancer ...