Pablo Escobar Research Paper

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.

With authorities closing in, a firefight with Escobar and his bodyguard, Alvaro de Jesús Agudelo (a.k.a. "El Limón"), ensued. The two fugitives attempted to escape by running across the roofs of adjoining houses to reach a back street, but both were shot and killed by Colombian National Police. Escobar suffered gunshots to the leg and torso, and a fatal gunshot through the ear. Society is torn between who actually fired the final shot into his head, or determined whether this shot was made during the gunfight or as part of a possible execution, and there is wide speculation about the subject. Some of Escobar's the family members believe that he could have committed suicide. His two brothers, Roberto Escobar and Fernando Sánchez Arellano, believe that he shot himself through the ears: "He committed suicide, he did not get killed. During all the years they went after him, he would say to me every day that if he was really cornered without a way out, he would shoot himself through the ears. "Escobar’s death accelerated the demise of the Medellin Cartel and Colombia’s central role in the cocaine

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

Pablo Escobar is well known throughout the world as one of their greatest outlaws. He grew from obscurity to be the leading cocaine distributor in the world. He led an empire of terror, drugs, money, and violence. He was a gangster and outlaw in the ranks of icons such as Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, and John Gotti. He can only be understood by looking at the man’s early life, his rise to ultimate power, and the absolute necessity of ending his reign of terror by any means.

Drug lord’s, drug king’s, ceo of crime, are some of the names given to powerful drug cartel leaders. There are many such criminals throughout history that has gained these titles but a few have been so powerful and acquired so much wealth that they have gained widespread infamy. Pablo Escobar was one. From the 1970s until his death in 1993, Escobar was considered by many to be the most powerful drug lord in the world. With a net worth that earned him a spot on Forbes magazine’s Richest Man in the World list. Escobar was instrumental in getting his country out of debt, a creator of jobs for the Colombian people, and widely revered by many (Ramsey), all while sitting at the head of a large and powerful illegal drug organization. With his criminal

Throughout the episode, Pablo has shown to be very loyal, protective and generous to his immediate family. On the other hand, the behavior with strangers is the complete opposite as he acquires the position of authority. The family is defined as a group of people who genuinely love, care, and look out for each other. It is said to be a bondage that cannot be broken by any means. Families have individual beliefs and values in which they carry throughout their life. As per the research I have obtained, I can summarize that values are concepts of what’s good or bad, whereas beliefs are things you believe to be true or false in life. Although in the show Narcos, Pablo may have his criminal thoughts targeted towards strangers, the family is a different story. Things such as his beliefs and values regarding family, keep him from acting as a criminal when near them. Based on research, it was noted that “the family is the most important social unit in Columbia. Even if the main breadwinner lives and works far from home, the family takes priority”. Based off this, its shown that Pablo abuses the method of identity

Fabio Restrepo was a Medellin drug trafficker whose life was ended at the hand of Pablo Escobar in order to seize control of the cocaine enterprise (Biography.com, 2017). After taking Restrpos place Escobar expanded the cocaine enterprise into something of infamy, thus the Medellin Cartel was established (Biography.com, 2017). During his reign, Escobar ruled with terror. Many who crossed him were slain. He even used his network to serve on the Colombian Congress for a period, yet his background could not be kept hidden and was forced to resign. Later the justice minister who was said to reveal Escobar's notorious occupation was murdered (Biography.com, 2017). Escobar did not shy away from killing to influence politics in Columbia. At one time he even set a bounty and gave rewards for killings the Colombian police (Levinthal, 2012) In 1989 Pablo killed 107 citizens in a bombing of a jetliner, 2 of which were American citizens (Biography.com, 2017). With his death toll in the thousands and his net worth in the billions, Escobar was running the most dangerous narco-terrorist organization in the

Pablo Escobar is the most powerful and most wealthiest drug lord to live. Pablo Escobar’s life was dedicated to money, drugs, and his country of Columbia. Although,more than anything, family came first.He had a wife by the name of maria and two kids, Manuela and Sebastion. Pablo Escobar didn’t technically run columbia but he did control lots of things such as the younger generation. For instance, About 20% of teenagers in the late 1980’s were selling little amounts of marijuana and way larger amounts of cocaine for the benefit of Pablo Escobar’s pocket.Also, Churches throughout Columbia were being functioned by Pablo Escobar so that people could praise their lord. Throughout the 17 years of being one of the world’s most wanted men in several

He would kidnap people and use hostages as bargaining. In 1991 to avoid extradition Escobar made a deal with the Colombian government and turn himself into a prison that he had designed and built himself. The prison was called La Catedral while in jail Escobar continued to run his business. Escobar was allowed to remain in the prison until he started executing members of his organization inside his prison who he thought had betrayed him. When the authorities decided to move Escobar to another prison due to the killings he fled for fear of extradition to the United States. Before long Escobar had become a target marked for death. The Search Bloc, a Unites States Trained Colombian task force and Los Pepes who were family members of Escobar victims launched the largest manhunt in history. Thus putting his own family lives at risks and into the hands of the enemy. Pablo Escobar was found on December 2, 1993 hiding in a home in Medellin where he was killed in a by the Colombian police and military. His reign ended in gun fire which killed

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.

To many, he is a terrible person, who brutally ruined lives, but to others, a savior and a provider. Pablo Escobar will always be remembered in the history of Colombia. Throughout his reign, he smuggled 66 tons of cocaine out of Colombia. He killed a lot of innocent people associated with the government and so many saw him as an overly aggressive savage. A clear majority of the population thought that Pablo was a saint even though he was a known to terrorize tons and tons of lives of people all throughout Colombia and the United States. Through his work, he made a lot of money which he donated to the poorest people of Colombia. As mentioned many times before, his donations of money, schools, hospitals, and other facilities left a mark on many of these people and communities. In 1986 he attempted to enter politics and lend aid to eradicate the national debt of 10 billion dollars. In 1986, Forbes listed his as the seventh-richest man in the world. Pablo Escobar was an immensely brutal and intimidating individual and due to his desire for riches, fortune, and authority in the Columbian government, he was forced to leave his role and leave the government

Pablo Escobar was a violent, powerful and ruthless drug lord who ran the Colombian cocaine trade for 20 years until his death on a rooftop while being pursued by police and America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (Morris, 2013). Pablo’s drug business and empire made him among the wealthiest men in the world. Pablo was a renowned name in the criminal world of Colombia, and some still admire him to this day. Pablo got involved in criminal activities at a young age. He began by stealing graveyards and sold them to smugglers.

I choose to research “El Pablo Escobar”, because his lifestyle caught my eye. I instantly caught interest in wanting to know more of what he’s like. Other people in the world think El Pablo Escobar was born from hell, I think he was a person trying to survive in this cruel world. We all do things that we’re not proud of, but that’s just the nature of life. We do unusual things that some people just don’t understand, some of us grew up poor or mentally abused in our own mind. Creates people like El Pablo Escobar who become so violent in nature, they become the wolf not the sheep. I’ll be also writing about the way he grew up to become so successful in the person he became, and the ways he gained power.

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