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The film The Two Escobar’s, directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, is a documentary about “narco-soccer”, which was a time period in Columbia when it was prevalent for drug kingpins to use soccer clubs to launder their money. One of the most infamous kingpins was Pablo Escobar. Pablo was typically known as a murderer in Columbia, but did have one passion in life, and that was soccer. The other Escobar, Andres, who had no blood relation to Pablo, was the star defensive player for Columbia’s soccer team. One thing these two had in common, besides their last name, was that the people in Columbia disliked them because of difficult circumstances they were put in.

Pablo Escobar died on December 2, 1993, in the midst of another of Escobar's endeavors to evade the Search Bloc. A Colombian electronic observation group, drove by Brigadier Hugo Martínez utilized radio triangulation innovation to track his radio phone transmissions and discovered him stowing away in Los Olivos, a white collar class barrio in Medellín. With powers shutting in, a firefight with Escobar and his bodyguard, Alvaro de Jesús Agudelo resulted. The two criminals endeavored to escape by running over the tops of abutting houses to achieve a back road, however both were shot and slaughtered by Colombian National Police. Escobar endured discharges to the leg and middle, and a deadly gunfire through the ear. It has never been demonstrated

Some may say that Pablo Escobar helped his country Columbia greatly by spreading his illegitimate wealth across Columbia but the amount of terror and killing he spread across the western hemisphere far outweighed the money he put into the less fortunate communities. December 1, 1949, Rionegro, Colombia, Escobar was born. His family was extremely poor, for example one time he and his brother Roberto were sent home from school because they were unable to buy shoes. From an early age, Escobar had possessed a unique drive and ambition to raise himself up from his humble beginnings. As a boy, he told his friends and family that when he grew up, he wanted to become president of Colombia. Yet as he grew older he realized his path to wealth and legitimacy

government led to a stand-off between the cartel and the government. During the 1980s, the

Pablo started his criminal career when he was in school by staling tombstones and selling then to a person in panama. In the 1970s he moves to the cocaine business, he started to make such a big empire of drug and cocaine which became know the Medellin cartel. By the 1980s everybody started to know about Pablo Escobar worldwide as el cartel de medallin. El cartel de medallin was in charge to controlled big portion of the drugs that was going into the United Stated, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic he also has cocaine coming from Peru and Bolivia because the coca from Colombia was initially of substandard quality. Pablo came from stealing to sell drug and also to kill people for example “Pablo was responsible for the murder of Colombia presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, one of the three assassinated candidates who were all competing in the same election, as well as the bombing of Avianca flight 203 and the Das building bombing in Bogota in 1989. The cartel de Medellin was also involved in a deadly drug war with its primary rival, the cartel de Cali, from most of existence” while Pablo was committed crime by selling drug killing people the Forbes magazine estimated Pablo to the seventh- richest man in the world it was so crazy how the medellin cartel was making up to $ 30 billion annually and controlling the 80 percent of the global cocaine market. Even though Pablo was a criminal and an any of the United States and Colombia many people in Medellin was looking at him like if he was a hero he was helping the poor community and also he was there sponsoring little league football (soccer) also the Atletico National. He not only made football fields and multisport he also was responsible for the construction of many churches in Medellin. Pablo was very smart because he was committed s lot of crime but was had I very good back gourd I think he knew he was

The United States has a long history of intervention in the affairs of one it’s southern neighbor, Latin America. The war on drugs has been no exception. An investigation of US relations with Latin America in the period from 1820 to 1960, reveals the war on drugs to be a convenient extension of an almost 200 year-old policy. This investigation focuses on the commercial and political objectives of the US in fighting a war on drugs in Latin America. These objectives explain why the failing drug policy persisted despite its overwhelming failure to decrease drug production or trafficking. These objectives also explain why the US has recently exchanged a war on drugs for the war on

In 2006, Mexico began to crack down on drug trafficking operations in union with the United States. Why all of the sudden? In regard to that question, my paper will include a history of events leading up to this sudden crack down on drug trafficking, from its start in the 1960’s until today. After the history of the drug war, I will discuss the main states involved like the United States and Mexico itself. Along with their main goal of eliminating drug trafficking all together, although it is a very high expectation. Mexico has sent out 50,000 soldiers that are being paid less than a burrito vendor, in attempt to lessen the

However, it seemed as if an even bigger problem for the DEA would be to find the source of the drugs and eliminate the drug trade. The focus moved to Colombia, the base of many sophisticated drug trafficking organizations. The notorious Pablo Escobar became one of the world’s leading drug traffickers. Violence and corruption erupted in Colombia during this era. During the Medellin Massacre, the Columbian mafia killed forty people in one weekend after authorities seized about six hundred kilos of cocaine. This event truly solidified the power and success of the drug mafias in Colombia. What did this mean for America? It only heightened the amount of drug trafficking. Anxiety grew in the hearts of Americans who feared that the new drug epidemic would also bring about brutal violence in their country. However violence only contributed partially to the problem. Organizations based in America grew to power off of the drug trading business. This did not just include mobsters but people like Larry Lavin. Lavin, an Ivy-league educated dentist, became the head of a major drug trafficking business. Those involved in his heist also included teachers, lawyers, and businessmen. Situations similar to these further validated America’s fear of violence and corruption being associated with drugs. The

Escobar demonstrated patterns of behavior that proved his strengths concerning his overall objectives or goals to include politics, mass corruption, international borders, legality, and his public image. Beginning with his objectives or goals, Escobar established a large scale profitable organization and utilized several tactics to grow his organization, extend his authority, advance his power and acquire enormous profits. He was successful, clever and dangerous (Bowden, 2002). Moreover, politics existed as a valuable asset for Escobar. He would apply pressure on political officials through violence, coercion, extortion, thus resulting in mass corruption. This factor contributed abundantly to his organization

The U.S decided to work with the Colombian government to establish an extradition treaty between the countries in 1979 (United States Congress ). This treaty would allow the U.S to extradite the cartel traffickers for a trial in the U.S. This caused Pablo to attack the government and this ultimately caused the Medellin cartel’s downfall. In the early 1990’s the cartel’s leaders were apprehended and the leader Pablo Escobar was killed in a firefight after having to run for his life. (PBS2).

During the early 1990’s Colombia being one of the biggest exporters of narcotics in history, led by Pablo Escobar, who had a wide range of organized crime affiliations throughout Latin America. Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord and he smuggled narcotics all the way to South Florida as when authorities tried to capture him. One of Pablo Escobar’s most important alliances was that of the Mexican-based traffickers. Escobar knew that this was an important trade route because of its geography and how it would be easier to smuggle the narcotics into the United States. This allowed a smuggling partnership between both countries and Mexico was to eventually lead their own drug based trafficking system with the help of Pablo Escobar. From the distributed drugs, cartels would take a certain amount of profit, and would use that money to bribe Mexican officials. By bribing Mexican officials it was insured that if smugglers were to be arrested they would either be let go, the case would be dropped or taking action against a rival smuggling group by giving away information about the rival’s plan to carry

     How ever law enforcement was closing in on Escobar. The U.S. want him to be extradited to the U.S. but Escobar surrendered to the Colombian’s in exchange for a promise not to be extradited to the U.S. He was able to design his own luxurious prison and continued to run his business behind the walls. Fifty new charges were brought against Pablo, including political assassination and mass murder. Escobar confessed to just one shipment of cocaine to Europe. When two men came and told Pablo he was being transferred to a military prison, Pablo would have none of this, and he took out hidden weapons, taking the two men hostage. After a night of negotiations 400 army commandos stormed the jail, but Escobar and his brother, along with many others, were gone. After 16 months on the run, he was finally hunted down by Columbian police with the aid of U.S. technology that recognized Escobar’s voice on a cell phone. On December 2, 1993 Pablo Escobar was killed trying to run away on a roof top in one of his safe houses in Columbia.

The Cali Cartel was less flashy with their money compared to other cartels at the time and were more about the business side of drug trafficking. They would ship mostly to Europe and Asia, where it was less likely to get caught. They did not get along with the other cartels around and would give information about them to the police to get themselves out of trouble. The Cali Cartel had competitions against the Medellin Cartel, another cartel from Colombia, especially Pablo Escobar, the leader of the Medellin Cartel. It got very violent between the two cartels and killings often occurred. The Cali Cartel started a group called People Against Pablo Escobar or PEPES, specifically to threaten him,” The Cali cartel began to attack the Medellin cartel -- particularly Pablo Escobar -- as their competition became more and more violent”(“The Colombian Cartels” 1). They would inform the police of his whereabouts, which ended up getting him caught and eventually put in jail. The Cali Cartel then took over the cocaine business until they all got caught and jailed. Most of the cartel sat for ten to fifteen

Let’s start from the beginning in the story about “El Pablo Escobar”, who became the king of coke. First of all, Pablo Escobar was from Colombia, Antioquia and born in 1949. Before his time as a drug lord and a murderous criminal, who organized one of the biggest drug trades in the world. He was a boy like any other regular child, who would spend his time cutting people grass to make money. Going camping on the weekends with the boy scouts, learning how to live in the wild. But he was raised up in the harsh time of economy, where people protested, and fought with one another. Escobar seen many deaths growing up, people beating each other up, protesting for better future for Colombia, and riots where hundreds of people who would fight. Where it all began to create a person like

With his political aspirations no longer a possibility and the United States pushing for Colombia to extradite him, Pablo unleashed terror on those who he considered to be his enemies. Escobar fought hard for a non-extradition clause and amnesty for those involved in trafficking if they gave up their trade (U.S. News & World Report, 1991). Unfortunately, the violence would result in the deaths of thousands including politicians, journalists, judges, police officers and ordinary citizens. In 1989, he was implicated in the bombing of a Columbian plane that killed more than 100 people and led to the public and drug traffickers turning against him (Levinthal, 2012). In June of 1991, Pablo Escobar surrendered to the Columbia government with the threat of extradition lifted and was allowed to spend his prison term in a luxury prison which he was permitted to build for himself (Maclean’s, 1992). Escobar’s imprisonment saw the deterioration of the Medellin Cartel whose offices were raided and leaders were killed by police officers. While authorities were attempting to move Pablo to a secure facility, Pablo escaped and a 16 month manhunt began. In December 1993, authorities finally caught up with Escobar in Medellin, where he and his bodyguard were shot and killed as they tried to