Escobar's son seeks forgiveness

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/11/colombia.escobar.son/index.html



"How do you write to a family that your own father hurt so much?"




Sebastian Marroquin, son of the infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, posed this question in a letter to the families of two of his father's most prominent victims.



Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was Colombia's justice minister in the early 1980s and one of the first to aggressively pursue cocaine traffickers. He was murdered in 1984.



Six years later, Luis Carlos Galan was a presidential candidate who publicly decried the drug cartels. He was assassinated during a campaign rally in 1989.



Escobar ordered both hits, according to authorities.



One thing the drug lord and the public servants had in common is that they had children of roughly the same age.



Now grown, their children have embarked on a reconciliation effort that was impossible for their parents, thanks in part to a new documentary by Argentine filmmaker Nicolas Entel.



Entel's film, "Sins of My Father," chronicles the path toward peace taken by the young men.