Hugo Aguilar

In 2017, Aguilar admitted to the press that after shooting Escobar to death in 1993, he took his Sig Sauer pistol as a trophy.

Thirteen months after being arrested, and based on the testimony issued by the paramilitary commander Salvatore Mancuso, the Supreme Court of Justice sentenced Colonel Aguilar to 9 years in prison for the crime of aggravated conspiracy, 7 which he complies with parole, after having remained in San Gil prison until March 2015.

In addition to the management reports as Governor of Santander, Aguilar wrote the book entitled "Así Maté a Pablo Escobar", edited by Planeta in 2015 and with sales records in his country, Peru, Spain and Germany.

Sanction and condemnation for the process of "parapolitica" [edit source | edit] At the beginning of a new campaign to aspire to the Government of Santander, on January 31, 2011 was dismissed and disqualified by the Attorney General of the Nation for the exercise of public office for a period of 20 years, concluding that he had links with the paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia. In the criminal proceeding for the same case, he was issued an arrest warrant that became effective in July of the same year, 6 during the electoral process in which he promoted the name of his son Richard Aguilar to the Government of Santander, who was the winner in the October 2011 elections.

In June 2006, the national government conferred the honorary degree of Coronel effective.3

The security, administrative and financial conditions had Santander in the bottom of the country, which prompted Aguilar to resign his seat in 2002 to present his name to the Government of Santander for the elections of October 2003, in which defeated the candidate of the Liberal Party, which had a 17-year hegemony controlling the territorial entity.

Colonel Aguilar ventured into politics aspiring to the mayor of Suaita and the Council of San Gil, without being elected to these positions. In 2001, with the endorsement of the Citizen Convergence Party, he obtained the support of 17,000 Santandereans to become deputy to the Assembly of the Department.

His most notable and remembered action took place on December 2, 1993, when he dismissed the Medellín Cartel chief, Pablo Escobar Gaviria, as a member of the Search Block against Drug Trafficking.

He served as an officer of the Chapinero Police Station in Bogotá in 1977; commander of the company of auxiliary bachilleres of the Magdalena Police Department in 1978; member of the Judicial Intelligence and Investigation Service of Bogotá in 1979; officer of the Carabineros School Alejandro Gutiérrez de Manizales, edecan (aide-de-camp) of the governor of Caldas and Lieutenant effective in 1980; Police commander of the municipalities of Carurú, Mapiripán and Miraflores in Guaviare, and of Tolú in Sucre; student of counter-guerrilla, lancer, grenadier, anti-explosives, carabinero, special operations and free pistol courses; promoted to captain in 1980 and destined like commander of counter-guerrillas for the zone of clearance of Florida, Pradera and Miranda in Valley; Police commander of Buga; plant officer of the Santander General School; special operations student of the Spanish Civil Guard and specialist in criminology at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1987; commander of the Special Operations Corps COPES; security chief of the Santander General School; Major in 1989; specialist in university teaching faculty at the University of Belgrano (1991); specialist in criminalistics of the University Institute of the Argentine Federal Police (1992); intelligence chief of Medellín; operational commander of the Search Block against the Medellin Cartel; student of command of staff and Latin American problems of Fort Benning (Columbus) and Lieutenant Colonel in 1994, rank in which he requested the retirement of the active service.

Son of Ciro Aguilar Garavito and Blanca Naranjo Coronado. He was a student at the Lucas Caballero Barrera school in his hometown and the Antonio Nariño de Moniquirá Institute. He entered the General Santander Police Cadet School on January 11, 1975, obtaining the rank of Lieutenant and Second Lieutenant on November 5, 1976, as part of course 39 of officers.

Hugo Heliodoro Aguilar Naranjo (Suaita, Santander, January 4, 1952) is a Colombian policeman, businessman, and politician. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Served as governor of his home state of Santander from 2004 to 2007. In 1993, he led the operation that resulted in the death of Medellin Cartel founder Pablo Escobar.