Abel de Jesús Escobar Echeverri is a Colombian farmer and Pablo Escobar's father.
Abel was separated from his child Hermilda Gaviria just a couple of years after Pablo's birth, leading the future drug lord to move to the town of Medellín. As a result, Pablo grew without his father and became the man of the house at a very young age.
Abel lived in solitude and worked hard by farming and taking care of livestock and poultry. He was frequently questioned by the police and other drug cartels about Pablo's whereabouts. His old age prevented them from killing him.
Sometime in late 1993, he is visited by his son, now a weakened fugitive on-the-run. Despite contempt for his son's occupation, Abel gladly accepts Pablo and his driver Limón into the farm, providing them with food and work.
One day, while Pablo assists his father in gutting a pig in the barn, blood splatters on Pablo, to which his father makes a remark towards Pablo causing an argument to ensue. Abel finally snaps at his son and berates him for being a violent, murderous criminal. The former drug lord, in return, lambastes his father for living like a hermit, without having a single photograph of his children or grandchildren. Pablo then says that he made the Escobar family name so famous that even the U.S. President is aware of it. In response, Abel then tells Pablo to take responsibility of his life of crime and violence, giving Pablo the reason why it wouldn't be possible to bring his family to his father's farm. Heartbroken and ashamed of his son's actions, Abel then tells Pablo to leave him at peace by himself. Pablo then walks away at his request.
Later that night, Abel watches Pablo and Limón driving away; leaving a stack of money, $6,000-USD, behind for him, who simply walks past it and heads for bed.