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Colombia's congress considers ban on Pablo Escobar souvenirs

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Colombia 's congress considers ban on Pablo Escobar souvenirs.

Bill proposes fines of up to $170 for vendors who sell merchandise that depicts Escobar .

Critics say items are revictimizing people who were victims of murderers.

Escobar ordered the murders of an estimated 4000 people in the 1980s and early 1990s .

Last year Colombia refused a request to trademark the Pablo Escobar name, filed by his widow and children, to sell educational and leisure products.

The European Union also denied a similar trademark request by Escobar ’s family earlier this year .

The bill must go through four debates to be approved by Congress .

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