Navy SEALs, The Final Assault on Pablo Escobar

In the early 1990s, the United States sent a covert team of Navy SEALs and Delta Force commandos to help the Colombian government capture Pablo Escobar. Operating in a strictly advisory role, the Americans provided tactical training and high-tech aerial surveillance to an elite Colombian police unit known as the Search Block. The mission faced numerous setbacks, including internal leaks within the Colombian forces and the emergence of a violent vigilante group called Los Pepes. Despite these challenges and the withdrawal of advanced surveillance aircraft, the team improvised using helicopter-based gear to track Escobar’s mobile phone signals. On December 2, 1993, they pinpointed his location in a Medellin suburb, where Search Block officers cornered and killed the drug lord on a rooftop, ending his decade-long reign of terror.