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Brances Alexander Muñoz

Brances Alexander "Tyson" Muñoz (1960-28 October 1992) was a Colombian sicario in the service of Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel.

Biography[]

Brances Alexander Muñoz was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1960, one of 15 sons; he was the brother of Dandenys "La Quica" Munoz Mosquera. He and his father were evangelical preachers before he became a petty thief and then a hitman. He and his brother became members of the Medellin Cartel, and Brances was nicknamed "Tyson" for resembling the American boxer Mike Tyson. Tyson became the right-hand man of John Jairo Arias Tascón, rising through the ranks and becoming the boss of the gangs in the Robledo and Castilla neighborhoods of Medellin. He learned how to make car bombs from ETA, and he was involved in the wave of murders against police officers as well as attempts on the lives of Cali Cartel leaders Pacho Herrera and Jose Santacruz Londono. In 1990, he, Mario Alberto Castaño Molina, John Jairo Velasquez, Johnny Rivera Acosta, and Ricardo Prisco succeeded the late Arias as head of the cartel's military wing. In 1988, he and his brother were captured, and Tyson was sentenced to 28 years in prison. He and his brother escaped from prison with the help of a cartel helicopter, and he became a wanted man throughout Colombia for his involvement in the DAS Building bombing, the attack on the El Espectador newspaper, the murder of Carlos Mauro Hoyos, the Avianca Flight 203 bombing, and several other attacks. On 28 October 1992, months after Pablo Escobar's escape from the La Catedral prison, he was tracked down to a two-story house in Medellin and was killed by Search Bloc while attempting to flee through a neighbor's yard.

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