 | Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, a prolific hit man for Pablo Escobar, has died of cancer. Velásquez confessed to 300 killings. He was sentenced to a 30-year prison term for the assassination of Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento in 1989.
|  Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez in a Colombian jail in 2013. Nickamed 'Popeye,' he was a feared member of the Medellín Cartel. |
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Popeye was linked to an Avianca plane bombing that killed 110 people, all 107 on board the plane and three on the ground. 'Popeye' Velásquez died of stomach cancer in a Bogotá hospital at the age of 57. |  |
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