How Did Pablo Escobar Impact Society

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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

Pablo Escobar was born on December 1, 1949 into a lower-middle class family, young Pablo grew up in the Medellín suburb of Envigado. As a young man, "he was driven and ambitious, telling friends and family that he wanted to be President of Colombia some day. " (Christopher W. Minster) His elder brother, Roberto, reported him as a good brother, who was kind, friendly and intelligent and someone who would achieve greatness. Escobar's drive unfortunately began to find the wrong outlets and he was soon involved in small-time hustling with his gang in the streets of Medellin. There are unproven rumours that, while still at school, Escobar would steal tombstones from the local graveyards, sandblast off the names and sell them to Panamanian smugglers.. Doing whatever he could to make money, by the age of 20, Escobar was dealing cannabis, skilled at stealing cars and starting to build a name for himself in the Colombian criminal underworld. (Pablo Escobar Gavira-Archivos, 2000) Pablo was introduced to crime at a very young age. One must look at the society's state and how he got involved into crime. It could be argued that if Pablo was in a better environment his kindness and ambitions could of lead him to great things instead of becoming a drug lord. Escobar was born with ambitions and dreams

Located in Colombia, the city of Medellin was one of the biggest drug trafficking organizations in the world since the 1970’s. During the early 1970s the demand for cocaine spreads rapidly in the United States, the limited raw supplies produced in Colombia were build up with coca paste imported from Bolivia and Peru, refined in "kitchen laboratories" in Colombia, and smuggled into the United States. Medellín criminal networks during the mid-1970s transform the cocaine transportation system from petite activities into enormous airlift operations. During the late 1970’s through the earliest 1980’s, Griselda Blanco started incorporate into the drug industry. She was known as the “Cocaine Godmother”, “Black Widow”, and/or “Queen of Narco-trafficking.” While during about the same period time, Pablo Escobar raised himself to become one of the major drug dealers. He was known as “The World’s Greatest Outlaws”, “Sir Pablo”, “the Godfather”, “the Boss”, “the Lord”, “the Magician”, and/or “Little Pablo.” He was the hardest cocaine dealer to catch. Blanco and Escobar were well known for taking advantage of Medellin 's’ (back then) conditions by easily transporting drugs from Colombia to the United States. Some of the things that contributed into those two people to become the biggest drug dealers, are how they were raised in their early childhood to early teenage years, and their natal country (back then) conditions, and how they mold themselves towards their raise to power.

At the time Murphy was transferred, Colombia was known as the center point for the world’s drug trade. Murphy was paired with another DEA agent in Colombia, Javier Pena. Murphy and Pena worked all over Colombia to find any leads for the Colombian National Police. When Escobar’s wealth became an issue of public debate the U.S. increased pressure on Colombia to extradite him.

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1, 1949- December 2, 1993 he was known as Colombia drug lord and cocaine traffic. He also was known in the 1983 as the King of cocaine. He also was the wealthiest criminal in the history with an estimated net-worth of $ 30 billion by the early 1990s. Pablo Escobar stared his criminal carrier when he was a teenager, being a teenager in the street of Medellin without the love of his family he started to commit server crime like stealing, gravestone, allegedly. Pablo also when to school for a short time he attempt to University of Antioquia. He also was involved in many crimes selling contraband cigarette, selling fake lottery ticket and stealing cars. He was committed a lot

Pablo Escobar was one of the most known and respected drug lords ever to be around. It is estimated that he killed many people. Of those many were columbian police officers. Even though he was a murderer and and a cocaine king pin many people saw him as a sort of Robin Hood figure. Many say he was evil while others say he was an inspiration.

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

Everybody realized that Escobar was all the while running his operation from La Catedral, however in July of 1992, it turned out that Escobar had requested some traitorous subordinates conveyed to his "jail," where they were tormented and slaughtered. This was a lot for even the Colombian government, and arrangements were made to exchange Escobar to an ordinary jail. Dreading he could be removed, Escobar got away and sought refuge. A huge manhunt was sorted out. By late 1992, there were two associations hunting down him: the Search Bloc, an exceptional, US-prepared Colombian team, and "Los Pepes," a shadowy association of Escobar's adversaries, made up of relatives of his casualties and financed by Escobar's primary business equal, the Cali

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.

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

The King of Cocaine, Pablo Escobar, was a Colombian drug lord who created the Medellin Cartel and was once one of Forbes’ Magazines wealthiest people (Levinthal, 2012). Pablo Escobar was born in 1949 in Colombia to a father was a peasant farmer and mother who was a school teacher (Thompson, 1996). His aspirations for a large life began when he was young and he dreamed of becoming the president of Columbia. However things changed when he realized that being legitimately wealthy would require him to be a criminal. Prior to being involved in drugs and smuggling, Pablo was a petty street thief and would steal cars (Jenish, & Wirpsa, 1993). As his criminal activity grew he would gain a name for himself on the streets that would ultimately prepare