Jai Mareddy
HIST 2222 Essay
Chamosa
11/13/16
US Media Interpretation of: Rise and Fall of Pablo Escobar
Abstract:
Pablo Escobar is known to many as king of the cocaine trade, having controlled and dominated over 80% of the cocaine shipped to the US. He was born on Dec. 1, 1949 in Rionegro, Colombia to Abel Escobar and Hermilda Gaviria. Pablo showed his finesse for criminal activities in college itself, when he ran a successful practice of selling counterfeit college diplomas to students. He later entered the cocaine trade in the early 1970’s. He formed the Medellin Cartel with other established criminals, and started one of the most successful crime organizations in Colombia. He initially earned popularity with the public by sponsoring various charity projects throughout the Antioquia region, however later terror campaigns resulting in the murder of thousands of civilians led to him being marked as a public enemy. He was killed in 1993, leading to the end of the biggest cocaine empire of the time.
Pablo Escobar: Early Life/Rise to Power
Pablo Escobar was born on December 1 to parents: Abel Escobar and Hermilda Gaviria. He grew up in modest means, with his father as a farmer and his mother as a schoolteacher. From very young, he was ambitious and wished to earn one million dollars by the time he was 22. Before getting into the drug trade, Escobar sold stolen tombstones to smugglers and was also into the business of stealing cars. His criminal activities included
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
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
Guzmán a considered godfather of the drug world. He became Mexico's top drug kingpin in 2003 after the arrest of his rival Osiel Cárdenas Guillén of the Gulf Cartel, and was considered the "most powerful drug trafficker in the world" by the United States Department of the Treasury. Guzmán had exported more drugs to the United States than anyone else: more than 500 tons (450,000 kg) of cocaine in the U.S. alone. If I am correct from my research. That’s crazy a guy with all this merchandise with 500 tons of cocaine.
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
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.
Pablo Escobar was born in 1949. His father was a peasant farmer and his mother was a school teacher. Pablo grew up in Envigado. Envigado was a suburb of the second largest city in Colombia, Medellin. Escobar’s childhood was in a very violent atmosphere. It was a
Guzmán was born on April 4, 1957 to a poor family in the hamlet of La Tuna near Badiraguato, where he sold oranges as a child. He had two sisters: Armida and Bernarda; and had 4 brothers: Miguel Angel, Aureliano, Arturo and Emilio. Little is known about Guzmán's early years. His father was supposedly a cattle rancher, as were most in the area; it is believed, however, that he also grew opium poppy.[2][7] Fortunately for Guzmán, his father had connections to higher-ups in the Sinaloan capital of Culiacán through a relative, Pedro Avilés Pérez, Joaquin Guzmán's uncle. Aviles was a key player in the Sinaloa drug business, seen as a pioneer for finding new methods of transporting the rural produce to urban areas for shipment by way of
The idea of drug trafficking makes most gasp in disgust but for the country of Columbia, drug trafficking was their upbringing and yet, eventually it was their demise. Pablo Escobar brought hope to poor and fear to the wealthy and even though his ways were cruel, his deeds were kind. Not only did Pablo Escobar bring the country of Columbia under his rule but he influenced this country's culture in a beautiful but horrible way.
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.
His mother and father struggled to provide for Pablo and his siblings. Escobar was always eager to put his family on top when he was young, he got his wrong start as a petty street burglar, stealing cars before moving into the smuggling business. Escobar’s early importance came during the “Marlboro Wars,” in which he played a high-profile role in the control of Colombia’s smuggled cigarette market. This period proved to be a valuable guidance ground for the upcoming narcotics kingpin. It wasn’t
“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.
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