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
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 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.
Back in the 1980s, Pablo Escobar was the biggest cocaine trafficker in the world. On a good day, from Columbia, Escobar would smuggle about 15 tons of cocaine into the United States. He used a variety of ways to sneak his product into the country, but the most straightforward of which was through American-based airlines. When he first started smuggling cocaine, Escobar would have his mother sew five kilos into the lining of a jacket, then one of his sicarios (hitmen) would wear the jacket onto a flight to the United States and walk right through the security. Eventually, Escobar would smuggle up to five tons a day into this
Joaquin Guzman Loera entered the drug trade as a teenager and his nickname is “El Chapo.” He founded the Sinaloa cartel in 1989 over time building it into immensely profitable global drug trafficking operations. Guzman has orchestrated daring escapes from maximum-security prisons in his country.one of the escapes was in July 2015, he was recapture in January in the Mexican city of Los Mochis. El Chapo had proven his value in the narcotics business and begun working with another young dealer named Hector Luis Palma Salazar.
Escobar, sought to create patron-client followings in the cities by handing out cash to the poor,
At its top, Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel carried 15 tons of cocaine for each day to the United States. That is around the heaviness of two African elephants. Business was great What amount does 15 tons of cocaine day by day get you? A great deal.
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
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).
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.
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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
Drug trafficking is a major issue in Colombia, causing many other issues across the country. Many people involved in the drug trade including civilians are being killed, kidnapped, and injured over this problem. Over the years, the government has started cracking down on the growers, producers, and sellers but so far, they have only caught minor criminals. The government is making agreements with neighboring countries and finding alternative uses for the crops to slow down the production of drugs. Despite all of the efforts being made to stop drug trafficking, violence, and production the cartels are still thriving throughout Colombia.
What is the first thing that comes into your mind when you hear of the region Latin America? Poverty, violence, drugs? Latin America is a major region where drugs are generated, imported, and exported. The general stereotype with regards to Latin America is that the region is drug infested due to the history of use, the problems regarding drug trafficking, and the continued statistics proving the ongoing use of drugs. Despite the fact that not every country in Latin America fits in this mold, history and data supports this impression.
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.