When she went to interview Jhon Jairo Velasquez, the infamous hitman of Colombia's most famous drug lord Pablo Escobar, AFP's Bogota bureau chief Florence Panoussian "expected to see a cynic with a cold stare, a caricature from a gangster movie."
"Instead I see a charming, smiling, amiable man, who is fascinated by firearms but who has also learned to manipulate and seduce to survive in the jungle of the drug lords and what he calls the 'hell of prison.'”
