Pablo Escobar's Drug Empire

Joaquin Guzman best known as “El Chapo” is the world's greatest drug lord. He has been captured three times and has been able to escape twice, once in a laundry basket and the second time he managed to escaped in an underground tunnel built in his shower cell. He was recently recaptured after being fugitive for about six months. Joaquin entered the drug business as a teenager and later became in charge of the Sinaloa cartel. “He shops and ships by some estimates more than half of all the cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana that come into the United States”(Penn). Many argue that El Chapo is a really bad person that only does a lot of harm to the citizens in Mexico, but what most don't know is that he actually helps some of them.

Thesis Statement: How Joaquín Guzmán Loera became a mythical figure in Mexico, both a narco folk hero and a villain

Luis Garavito born on the 25 of January 1957 in Genova, Quindio, Colombia. Is a Colombian

Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, also known as El Chapo, was born in the rural community of La Tuna, Badiraguato, Sinaloa (Beith, 2010). Guzman Loera started his trafficking career in the 1980’s working for the powerful Miguel Angel Felix-Gallardo (U.S Department of State, 2015); he was able to quickly move up the ranks because of his expertise in air logistics (U.S DOS, 2015). Guzman Loera is now the most powerful drug trafficker in the world and the leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. Thousands of killings have been attributed to Guzman Loera’s organization, along with kidnappings, and extortions. Mexican authorities arrested Guzman Loera on June 9th, 1993, for murder and drug related charges and was given a twenty year sentence in a maximum security prison in Jalisco, Mexico. However, he managed to escape from the maximum security prison on January 19, 2001 (U.S DOS, 2015). His escape from the maximum security prison in Jalisco has allowed him to

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

government led to a stand-off between the cartel and the government. During the 1980s, the

The story opens up with Pablo narrating his own trial, He being charged for illegal anarchists’ activities on behalf of Spain’s Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. The judges demand him to reveal the location of his colleague, Ramon Gris. Pablo tells the judges that he is not aware of where his colleague would be located. He is placed in a cell with two other men while he waits for his verdict. There are two other men in the cell with

In the late 1970’s, Guzman worked under the drug lord Hector “El Guero” Palma by transporting narcotics near U.S.-Mexico border through aircraft. Although Guzman’s rank in the cartel was very minimal, he took his job very seriously. For example, if any of his drug shipments were not on schedule, he would kill the smuggler himself usually letting them experience a slow and painful death. Business partners quickly learned that ripping Guzman off or betraying him was not an option. The way Guzman handled business helped him gain popularity. In the 1980’s, the dominant Guadalajara Cartel introduced him to Felix Gallardo, one of Mexico’s high ranked drug lords. Guzman began working for Gallardo as a chauffeur then quickly moved up in the business with the role of coordinating drug shipments from Columbia to Mexico through land, air, and sea. Palma on the other hand delivered his drugs into the United States. Guzman earned himself a lot of respect for his work and began working for Gallardo directly. Throughout the late 70’s and early 80’s, Mexico drug traffickers were the middlemen for Columbian drug trafficking groups. They would simply transport drugs into the U.S. and receive a fee for each kilogram. At this point Gallardo was the top drug kingpin in Mexico. When Gallardo was arrested, Guzman reportedly lived in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He owned several houses throughout

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

[edit] Arrest and escapeGuzmán was captured in Guatemala on June 9, 1993,[10] extradited to Mexico and sentenced to 20 years, 9 months in prison for drug trafficking, criminal association and bribery charges. He was jailed in the maximum security La Palma (now 'Altiplano') prison. On November 22, 1995, he was transferred to the maximum security Puente Grande prison in Jalisco, Mexico, after being convicted of three crimes: possession of firearms, drug trafficking, and the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo (the charge would later be dismissed by

In the mid 20th century, Colombian politics were dominated by the Liberal and Conservative parties with fierce supporters that carried out the ideological and social differences into violence. Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a popular leader of the liberal party in Colombia launched social, economic, and political modernising reforms in the 1930’s. Gaitan was in the process of converting Colombia into a left-wing country when he was assassinated right before an upcoming presidential election. Gaitan was the favorite to represent the Liberal Party and was going to implement a more Liberal system in Colombia. The reaction to this assassination produced an uncontrollable clash between

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.

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