Pablo Escobar(1949-1993)

Pablo Escobar: The Rise and Fall of a Notorious Drug Lord

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and politician who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Wikipedia

Introduction:

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1, 1949, and passed away on December 2, 1993. He was a Colombian drug lord, a drug trafficker who endorsed terrorism, and a politician. He was the founder and leader of the Medellin Drug Cartel and was therefore nicknamed the king of cocaine. At the time of his death, he had accumulated a fortune that was calculated to be upwards of thirty billion dollars which today is around seventy billion, making him one of the richest criminals in history. His fighting cartel controlled the cocaine market in the United States during the 1980s and early 1990s.

He was born in Rionegro but lived in Medellín; he went to the Autonomous Latinoamericana University for a while but dropped out to commit crimes. His first ventures were in contraband cigarettes, phony lottery tickets, and auto theft. But by the early1970s he was working with heroin traffickers at some of the kidnap-for-ransom operations. The year 1976 marked the establishment of the Medellin cartel brought its first cocaine to the American market.

In the 1980s, his cartel was freighted with 70-80 tons of cocaine to the United States on a monthly basis, as a means of activities between them and the drug trade. Unfortunately, this wealth would come with extreme violence. Escobar’s cartel fought with enemies resulting in massacres and murders of police officers, judges, politicians, and civilians. He made his politically motivated move in 1982 when he won an alternate seat for the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia.

Born1 December 1949
Place of BirthRionegro, Colombia
Children2 Children’s
OrganizationMedellin Cartel
Criminal penaltyFive years’ imprisonment
Resting placeMonte Sacro Cemetery
SpouseMaria Victoria Henao
Died2 December 1993 (aged 44)

Pablo Escobar Early life:

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on the 1st day of December 1949 in Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia. He was a true Paisa his and ancestry included Spanish as well as Italic. Amongst the 7 children of Escobar, he was the third born and was brought up in a poor family in Medellin. His father was a peasant while his mother was a teacher.

At 16 and a half years, Escobar left school at the end of his high school program in 1966. Two years later, he was back with his cousin Ezra Gaviria. Then, life on the streets of rough Medellin had made bullies out of them all. After more than a year both of them left again. Even so, his own will stood in his way. He faked a proof of high school studies and entered a college, where he studied only for a few months having plans to take a degree of a criminal attorney, then to do the politics and finally become the president of whole America. However, due to lack of funds he had to give up his schemes.

Pablo Escobar Criminal career:

His entry into the underworld consisted of selling stolen gravestones after alterations were made to their wording. Escobar became associated with groups initiated in the car-importing business after he left the academic world. He soon graduated into more violent activities and employed force, even kidnapping for hire people who owed him. He had paid others to release the hostages, but that had not always been the case.

The kidnapping that stood out amongst all was that of businessman Diego Echavarría in 1971 summer. For calming the storm Escobar Kouos, Echavarría managed to gather $50k from his spouse. For the businessman, however, it has been already too late. This snapshot thrust Escobar and his band into the limelight.

Medellin Cartel:

In the mid-1970s, Pablo Escobar entered the world of organized crime, a decade before he got involved in the cocaine drug trade in Colombia. In May 1976, the Colombian Security Service (DAS) arrested him after a drug flight to Ecuador. Authorities discovered 39 kilograms of cocaine concealed in the extra wheel of his vehicle. However, Escobar bribed the courts and secured his release. Shortly after, someone killed the narcotics officer who had arrested him.

Escobar continued threatening or bribing state agencies and government departments. His well-known phrase “silver or lead” meant officials had to choose between money or death. This approach helped Escobar and other drug lords influence the parliament, as many candidates in the Conservative and Liberal parties were financially backed by them.

Although the Medellin Cartel began in the early 1970s, it expanded rapidly only after Escobar met other drug lords in April 1978. By then, the cartels had managed to ship around 19,000 kilograms of cocaine into the United States.

Pablo Escobar at the height of his power:

At the height of his power, Pablo Escobar used his wealth for philanthropy in Colombia. He paid his cocaine lab staff well and invested millions in developing Medellín’s poorest neighborhoods. Escobar built housing, parks, football stadiums, hospitals, schools, and churches. His charitable work earned him the nickname “Robin Hood Paisa.” He even entered politics, supporting the formation of the Liberal Party of Colombia. In 1982, he became a member of Congress, which granted him parliamentary immunity and a diplomatic passport. He claimed his fortune came from a bicycle rental business he started at 16.

However, Escobar’s political career quickly faced opposition. Rodrigo Lara-Bonilla, the new Minister of Justice, publicly accused him of criminal activities. After a few months, Liberal leader Luis Carlos Galán expelled Escobar from the party. Though Escobar fought back, he eventually retired from politics in January 1984.

Throughout the mid-1980s, Escobar targeted the Colombian judiciary. He bribed and killed several judges, trying to avoid extradition to the U.S. In 1985, he offered to surrender to Colombian authorities if they agreed not to extradite him. When they rejected the proposal, Escobar supported the Los Extraditables Organization, which fought against the extradition policy. The group linked itself to the deadly attack on the Colombian Judiciary Building on November 6, 1985, where half of the Supreme Court justices died.. Although Colombia’s Supreme Court briefly overturned the extradition treaty, the new president, Virgilio Barco Vargas, quickly renewed the agreement with the U.S.

Pablo Escobar at the height of his power.

Pablo Escobar Death:

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When the law attempted to capture him, acute violence instantly broke out. Yet there was no photograph of any Ejemplo later making arrangements for abduction. He believed Caius was the Annihilator and tried to jump through the flap from the Guardians’ British premises to beat him.

Numerous bullets penetrated his chest and legs and boasted one devastating shot into the brain. This triggered an argument about whether he ripped through the zinc and slipped on his sword or whether authorities put him down on a strictly approved order

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