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Pablo Escobar’s cartel made an estimated $420 million a week. His son says that at the end, they were hiding with $5 million in cash and starving. In the video below, he tells Michael Franzese what the last days with his father looked like. Juan Pablo Escobar now goes by Sebastián Marroquín. He says he has spoken in almost 50 countries. Everywhere he goes, teenagers tell him the same thing. “He was so successful. He was so rich. He was so powerful.” His answer: “He had all the money in the world and all the power, and he could never buy just a simple minute of peace for himself and his family.” He says his father became a billionaire. Then he describes the end. “We were hidden with $5 million in cash, and we were starving.” His father was the most wanted man in the world. His men had left. “We could have bought every supermarket in our town. But we were starving.” “You cannot eat the dollars.” He says that before “Narcos” was filmed, he offered Netflix family letters, home videos and thousands of photos. They weren’t interested. The chapter he wishes the show had included: “Pablo starving, dying, no food, but full of money.” Escobar was killed in December 1993. His son was 16. $420 million a week. $5 million in a hideout. Nothing to eat. The case for the fans: Escobar came from poverty and built one of the richest criminal empires in history. For years, no one could touch him. The case for his son: he died hunted and abandoned, sitting on cash he couldn’t eat. Thousands of families were destroyed on the way. So was Pablo Escobar a success story, or a man who had everything and could buy nothing?