Pabloloo Escobar: Drug Lord And Narco-Terrorism

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 his illegal cocaine trade around late 1970. Cocaine during this time was taking off in the United States main part because of the club life and the city life. Pablo made an alliance with other smugglers in Medellin and started the Medellin cartel. The

Hutt, David. “Heroes and Villains: Pablo Escobar.” David Hutt, 30 Jan. 2015, http://davidhuttwrites.com/2014/09/25/heroes-and-villains-pablo-escobar/. Over this article David Hutt, compares the good and the bad Pablo Escobar did during his life. He starts out by mentioning how Escobar build a neighborhood for the people living in poverty. He built them houses with all the must haves and aside from that also built schools and hospitals. The author also mentions how Escobar was a corrupter, murder and a Colombian Robin Hood for the poor people. Hutt is able to mention the two sides of one of the richest drug lords and adds to the controversy on whether he was a hero or a villain to Colombia.

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

1979 the Medellin drug bosses turned their attention to control the wholesale distribution in the

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

Conceived as Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, He was most likely one of the to a great degree rich offenders on the planet in his time. With expected total assets of around $25 billion, Pablo Escobar was portrayed as a rich narcoterrorist, drug ruler, and cocaine trafficker. His criminal personality was accounted for to begin amid his high school years. There are affirmations that he began by taking headstones which he sold to dealers. These claims were later denied by Escobar's sibling.

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).

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 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 by smoking Colombia’s highly potent pot. He would continue to do this the rest of his life.

The Cali Cartel was less flashy with their money compared to other cartels at the time and were more about the business side of drug trafficking. They would ship mostly to Europe and Asia, where it was less likely to get caught. They did not get along with the other cartels around and would give information about them to the police to get themselves out of trouble. The Cali 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 the police of his whereabouts, which ended up getting him caught and eventually put in jail. The Cali Cartel then took over the cocaine business until they all got caught and jailed. Most of the cartel sat for ten to fifteen

“Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's ambition and ruthlessness made him one of the wealthiest, most powerful and most violent criminals of all time” (Biography, 2017). Pablo Escobar was a smart and powerful man who became rich by being a drug dealer and his drug interest was cocaine. His first rodeo where he got his hustling training from trafficking and smuggling cigarettes and committing other little petty crimes. Escobar had only been arrested for possession of drugs one time in his whole entire life when he was in his mid 20’s. He was a husband, father, wealthy kingpin and the leader of the Medellin Cartel, made up of other criminals out of Medellin, Colombia.

He used needed people to become the Colombian congress. This happened during 1982 when he got elected to be an alternative in the House of Representatives. He used the politics to help advance himself in the Colombian society. Since drug traffickers discovered they had many limitations when it came to being influential in the Colombian society Escobar decided to run for congress. Politicians in Colombia was seen as (Political Power circles) beyond money, or “plata o Plomo philosophy which translated to silver or lead but to the people of Colombia it meant ether you took Escobar’s bribe or dealt with his wrath which usually meant torture or death. Escobar got into politics from advice of his one friend Alberto Santafimio Botero but after being elected Pablo was attacked by members in his own party and forced to resign his seat is disgrace. After seeing Pablo getting into politics to extend his power when it came to drug trafficking US Drug Administration Agency, US Government, Interpol and other Police International Agencies. The Colombian government had to chase to capture him. Later after resigning Pablo used his skills that he learned when being a politician to fight off the Extradition law to fight off the Colombian congress. The extradition law is a law that all the Colombian drug traffickers feared they would rather die in their homes in Colombia then rot In any jail cell in the United States of America. “The Extradition law is the United States is the formal process by which fugitive found in the United States is surrendered to another country or state for trial or punishment”. Colombia started changing up there acts after the United States of America was giving “short sentences” to drug dealers. So they created an anti drug police squad which was able to stop many crime bosses and many drug transports. This made Pablo Escobar very angry and waged a war against the law. He killed

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