A Colombian necktie (Spanish: corte corbata), is a mutilation excecution used in South America wherein the victim's throat would be slashed horizontally, with a knife or other sharp object, and his or her tongue pulled out through the open wound.

The Colombian necktie is sometimes credited to drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. However, it appeared decades earlier, during La Violencia (1948–1958), as a method of psychological warfare, meant to scare and intimidate.[1][2]

O. J. Simpson murder case [ edit ]

During the trial of O. J. Simpson in 1994, an alternate murderer theory claimed hitmen murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The theory supposes that the hitmen were hired by drug dealers to whom Brown Simpson's friend and sometime houseguest Faye Resnick owed money.[3][4]

Evidence was presented that a Colombian necktie, a variation where the executed are killed by a horizontal slash at the throat and the tongue is drawn through the wound, is often employed by Colombian drug dealers. Judge Ito barred this admission of testimony.

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Films

In the film, Running Scared (1986), Chicago crime lord Julio Gonzales is confronted by two cops trying to arrest him and says "You know what a Colombian necktie is? That's when I cut your throat from ear to ear, then I stick your tongue through the slit, leave it dangling and watch you squirm."

(1986), Chicago crime lord Julio Gonzales is confronted by two cops trying to arrest him and says "You know what a Colombian necktie is? That's when I cut your throat from ear to ear, then I stick your tongue through the slit, leave it dangling and watch you squirm." In the movie, Once Upon a Time in Venice (2017), a variation of the Colombian necktie is described, the "Belarusian bow tie". In this variation the victim's testicles are cut off, stuffed down his throat, and subsequently pulled out through two incisions on the throat

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In John le Carré's 1993 novel The Night Manager, Dr Paul Apostoll, a lawyer for a Colombian drug cartel, and his mistress were both given Colombian neckties as punishment for Apostoll informing on his bosses to intelligence agencies.[7]

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