Pablo Escobar: A Murderous Tyrant

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

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

Around the time of 1978, a business was developing that would soon be wealthy enough to profit up to 60 million a month (Kelley). Despite its wealth, the Medellin Cartel was not exactly a legal enterprise. It devoted infinite amounts of time, money, and manpower to produce, sell, and distribute drugs throughout vast areas. At the head was Pablo Escobar, who was admired by many inside and outside of the cartel. Countless people were involved in his business, both voluntarily and involuntarily (Kelley). While countless people looked up to him as a hero, Pablo Escobar took vicious measures while running his business, due to his thirst for power and wealth; however, he did not receive a satisfying punishment for the crimes he committed.

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

Who was a better drug lord? This term paper consists of two drug lords. One named Pablo Escobar and the other name Joaquin Guzman. Pablo Escobar was born December 1st, 1949 in Antioquia Colombia. He married Maria Henao and had two children. He went on in life to be a drug lord in Colombia and died December 2nd, 1993 a day after his birthday. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was born December 25th, 1954 or April 4th, 1957. Neither date has been identified as his primary birth date. He married Emma Aispuro and had 13 children. This is a compare and contrast term paper between two different drug lords with the same aspiration.

Thank you, Ian, for this wonderful article. You are certainly right about how smart Pablo Escobar was. He chose to smuggle cocaine into The United States instead of selling it in his home country so he can make 10 times the profit. He used many different routes to smuggle drugs into the United States. He even bought a small plane and used it to traffic drugs to Panama himself. The first plan he ever bought was put on top of the entrance to his famous ranch of Napoles. He later hired an American CIA agent name Barry Seal, who later became an informant and was killed by Pablo's hitmen. He also had submarines built and used various cartels in Mexico to smuggle his product to the United States. I think the smartest thing about him was that he never

Escobar had contributed much to the history of Latin America even though most of his contributions were negative. The only thing that was more impressive that he went form literally nothing to being seventh richest man in the world at his prime was, his ability to portray himself as a “man of the people”. He spend millions of football clubs, schools, and hospitals. The people definitely made their appreciation known and would often aid Escobar against the government. Escobar would end up controlling 80 percent of the cocaine trade and bribing or intimidating police and government officials at every level of Columbia. Nobody past or present had a organization that had the power that Escobar’s did. It would take a combined effort of the military

When they were in Columbia, there was murders occurring and bombs being set off on the daily as well. They stated that the Netflix show “Narcos” is not totally the same as it occurred truthfully. That is something that I do believe, the producers for the Netflix show may have left out some true things that may have happened. I personally do admire and respect the people that were on the hunt for Pablo Escobar. It was a dangerous mission, that they could have been killed any day. Thankfully they didn’t. It was so unbelievable on how much money Pablo was making in a year, especially in a MONTH! They presented pictures on how much cocaine was found in one laboratory, out of hundreds of them. The labs is where they would pack the cocaine in plastic bags. Also, the ways on how they would smuggle the cocaine were unbelievable. Who would have ever thought of looking in a fruit for drugs? That was really impressive. The way how he would have people killed was extremely viscous! People’s bodies would be tortured and ripped apart. I personally would never have the heart to do that to anyone, even if I did not like them. Pablo was a man with no compassion and remorse. Then Pablo was in “prison” for five years, with his own guards

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

Pablo Escobar had a great impact on drug trade to the U.S. in the 1980s. How he got into cocaine, how he smuggled, it shows and how he was brought down.

Pablo Escobar was important because over his lifetime, he used his power to develop Colombia into a narco-state for the betterment of the people. First, Pablo was a very influential man as well as an expert cocaine dealer, accumulating large amounts of money and changing the drug dealing game. Pablo changed the legal drug system of many countries and also over his lifetime, and he made over $4 billion off of cocaine dealing in which he funded for Colombia (“Pablo Escobar”). This suggests that if Pablo didn’t deal drugs, the systems of countries drug imports and exports would be sub-par and challenged by other drug dealers; like El Chapo. Secondly, Escobar was a very powerful man in the narcotic business as well as his home country of Colombia.

Pablo Escobar used conflict to force others to compromise their ideals and morals, leading to his increased power and influence in Colombia and the United States. Pablo Escobar grew up in a poor family, which may have lead to his wish for power and wealth. Pablo was born on December 1, 1949 in Rio Negro, Colombia (Anrhiud). He had one brother named Robert who would eventually

His mother and father struggled to provide for Pablo and his siblings. Escobar was always eager to put his family on top when he was young, he got his wrong start as a petty street burglar, stealing cars before moving into the smuggling business. Escobar’s early importance came during the “Marlboro Wars,” in which he played a high-profile role in the control of Colombia’s smuggled cigarette market. This period proved to be a valuable guidance ground for the upcoming narcotics kingpin. It wasn’t

Although Pablo was seen as an enemy to the US and the Colombian government he was recognized as a hero to the poor population of Medellin and this would be a major contributor to the long lasting success of his cartel. Pablo would constantly promote his Robinhood image to the poor with generous donations and civic projects such as building youth sports complexes and housing for the poor. These projects gave him massive popularity among the population and the people of Medellin would return the favor by serving as look out for him and helping him evade the police.

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