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‘The people loved him, because politicians used to arrive, promise things and then nothing would happen. Pablo would say, “I promise to floodlight the pitch, to put a bell in the church, paint the school ...”, and the next day we would start work.’
Jamie Gaviria, Pablo’s Cousin’
Top: Pablo at the opening of a football pitch, one of 800 whose flood lighting he had paid for, c.1982 Ivan Restrepo’s photographs