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 from modest to extraordinary. Unfortunately, his family could not afford his education so he had to drop out, this was the first step to Escobar’s life of crime (Crimemuseum, 2016). Escobar got his start at crime by becoming and average street thief and eventually stealing cars. Other early exploits include stealing headstones from cemeteries and sanding them off to sell off as new headstones (Crimemuseum, 2016). Escobar’s prominence came in during the “Marlboro Wars” where he had a high profile position in Columbia’s smuggled cigarette market (biography.com editors, 2016). Realizing the potential of the cocaine market Escobar made his first major power play. In 1975, Escobar ordered the assassination of Fabio Restrepo, who was the current head of the cocaine market (Crimemuseum, 2016). Escobar immediately took control of the cocaine market and expanded Restrepo old territory. Pablo Escobar was arrested for the first time after the assassination of Restrepo, though the charges
Escobar started building his cocaine empire in 1975, by paying cocaine farmers twice as much as what they were already being paid.( GQ) He became the leader of the Medellín cartel, which was responsible for 80% of the global cocaine market in.(Macias)At its peak, the
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
Escobar, sought to create patron-client followings in the cities by handing out cash to the poor,
In the novel Enrique’s Journey I feel Enrique is a perpetrator of crime. He unlawfully enters the US in the hope of finding his mother. Yes, it is a heartbreaking story, but that still does not excuse the fact that he broke the law. There are some dangers when attempting to illegally enter the US such as death and diseases. Death is a concern for the person trying to enter the US; they can be killed along the way by countless different ways, such as: Starvation, dehydration, burns, falling off of trains, freezing, and murder. They also can bring diseases into the United States that can kill many. When Unaccompanied Alien Children are apprehended Border Patrol and other guards are forced to watch and care for them. Some children may have diseases and a guard may catch it. Many undocumented people lack basic vaccinations. This is not only affecting the person who is travelling, but others around them too.
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 Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1, 1949- December 2, 1993 he was known as Colombia drug lord and cocaine traffic. He also was known in the 1983 as the King of cocaine. He also was the wealthiest criminal in the history with an estimated net-worth of $ 30 billion by the early 1990s. Pablo Escobar stared his criminal carrier when he was a teenager, being a teenager in the street of Medellin without the love of his family he started to commit server crime like stealing, gravestone, allegedly. Pablo also when to school for a short time he attempt to University of Antioquia. He also was involved in many crimes selling contraband cigarette, selling fake lottery ticket and stealing cars. He was committed a lot
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
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).
Imagine being hated and loved by so many people, running from police, killing people that got in your way, and taking control of your hometown; that’s exactly what Don Pablo or Pablo Escobar did. He was a drug lord who, at his height of his career, smuggled more than eighty percent of the cocaine into America. Escobar was born December 1, 1949 in Rionegro, Colombia. Although he was born into a lower-class family, he would grow to become on of the riches men in the world during his time, according to Forbes. Young Escobar would get his start in the streets by stealing tombstones and would take them back to his house and sandblast the names off them, once he did that he would sell them (Minister 1).
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
and was listed by Forbes magazine as the 7th richest man in the world all because his business in cocaine was so successful. In the same year Pablo and his cartel planned to kill President Bush (sr.) with a bomb on his visit to Cartegena. That’s shows he thought he was that powerful.
On April 30, 1984 in Bogota, Colombia, the violent ambush and assassination of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla sent a chilling political message – violence would be employed against anyone who supported reforms against the illicit narcotics trade. Before his death, Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was one of the first politicians who voiced opposition to the exploding drug trade involving cocaine. The cycle of targeted violence returned only a couple of years later, on November 17, 1986, when a former chief of the anti-narcotics police force, Colonel Jaime Ramirez Gomez, was brutally murdered while traveling in a vehicle with his family. This public figure had not only shut down one of the biggest cocaine producing plants (at the time) but was set to testify in a tribunal to implicate Pablo Escobar in the murder of Justice Minister Bonilla. Then in 1989, Luis Carlos Galan, a Colombian presidential candidate who denounced the criminal ventures of the cartels, was gunned down at his political rally. During his campaign, he fatefully challenged the likes of Pablo Escobar, by promising to institute extradition laws of drug traffickers to the United States. The pattern of calculated violence towards these prominent political figures, who supported justice reforms against drug traffickers, exemplified the extreme measures that the Medellin Cartel used to exact revenge on public dissenters. The drug cartels publicly executed political figure heads, typically in
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
For many years in Medellin a civil war had occurred costing many lives between both sides of the parties concerning government and guerilla groups, later to become the Medellin Cartel (Fukuyama and Colby 2011). The war had begun and had been prolonged due to the weakness of Colombia’s national government who only commanded a small army and police all around Colombia (Fukuyama et al. 2011). It was by this that the beginning of The Medellin Cartel was able to start strong and continue a successful business. In the book Kings of Cocaine an Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money, and Corruption, authors Guy Gugliotta and Jeff Leen (Gugliotta and Leen 1989) name the founders of what can
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