the late 70’s to the late 80’s the United States started to see an influx of cocaine use. This was due to the increasing power of Colombian drug cartels. During this time airport security was almost next to nothing so for colombian drug traffickers this was a gimme as it was a fairly simple matter to hire flight attendants or passengers as "mules", who would travel to Colombia or Bolivia, fill their suitcases with cocaine, and bring it back to the US. However in the 70’s the rules began to change
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 born January 12, 1949. After being kicked out of school , he began his career as a thief in streets of Medellin Colombia. Its rumored that Escobar got his start by stealing tomb stones from local cemeteries, then sand blasting them and re-selling them to Panama. Pablo then started on the drug scene
Pablo Escobar came from a very poor family. His dad was a farmer and when he was 35 he was one of the wealthiest men in the world. During 1980 his cartel made about 420 million dollars a week, which is 22 billion dollars a year. Pablo Escobar was named on the Forbes list for 7 years straight and he even became the 7th richest man in the world. Pablo Escobar started his life in crime by first as a petty thief and small-time drug dealer outside of Medellin in a city called Envigado. Pablo started
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
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
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born December 1, 1949 in Antioquia, Colombia. Pablo’s life was ended on December 2, 1993, when he was surrounded by police and was shot. Pablo Escobar will be remembered in history for being one of the wealthiest and most influential drug lords the world has ever seen. Pablo Escobar grew up from modest means, his father was a peasant farmer and his mother was a school teacher (biography.com editors, 2016). From his early days Escobar strived to raise his status up
Pablo Escobar was born at Rionegro, Columbia on December 1, 1949. He was brought up from a good working class family in Medellin, Columbia. Although, he wasn’t very wealthy. His mother was an elementary school teacher and his father was a farmer. The outage that he saw how he could escape from the working class was by distributing and selling cocaine. Not only was he a Columbian drug trafficker and drug lord, but he was also a narco-terrorist. He was one of the most ruthless person to ever live.
Pablo Escobar was not a man to mess around with. As a kid he was just a petty car thief with big dreams, but rose to be one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men. He could remove anyone standing in his path in the blink of an eye. “If a politician, judge or policeman got in his way … he would order them killed” (Christopher Minster). He entered the Cocaine trade in the early 1970’s, and later became one of the most notorious, ruthless and feared drug dealers. Although some people believe
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
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