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    Pablo Escobar Thesis

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    “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

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    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. In this manner

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    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.

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    Don Pablo Escobar Thesis

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    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

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    Narco’s is a series on Netflix that revolves completely about a guy by the name of Pablo Escobar. In this series, Pablo Escobar. an individual who grew up in a rough city in Columbia. His father, a peasant farmer and mother, a school teacher. 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

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    cigarettes as well as fake lottery tickets. Soon after his involvement with his brother stealing and selling fake contraband he soon became acquainted with the local smuggler, Alvaro Prieto. While making a quick million in his early twenties smuggling drugs he got into an argument with a local drug lord, bigger than Alvaro and killed him. This led to his take over of the Medellin gang, his reign of violence , and his smuggling of fifteen tons of cocaine a day. Pablo Escobar’s violence stemmed from

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    Should Escobar be known as a threat or as an inspiration for the others? Title: Pablo Escobar, the history of the infamous villain who became the evilest lord that world has ever seen. Introduction. Pablo Escobar, one of the greatest outlaws throughout the history who grew from one of the poorest neighborhoods of Medellin to be the most famous drug lord in the world whose legacy continues even nowadays in Colombia. Escobar was born in Medellin, Colombia, on 1-st of December 1949 and was killed on

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    Who was a better drug lord? This term paper consists of two drug lords. One named Pablo Escobar and the other name Joaquin Guzman. Pablo Escobar was born December 1st, 1949 in Antioquia Colombia. He married Maria Henao and had two children. He went on in life to be a drug lord in Colombia and died December 2nd, 1993 a day after his birthday. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was born December 25th, 1954 or April 4th, 1957. Neither date has been identified as his primary birth date. He married Emma Aispuro

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    Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria has gone down in history as one of the most infamous drug kingpins in the world. He was born in 1949 to a humble lower-middle-class family in Columbia. Though his family came from subtle means Pablo always desired to be powerful and wealthy. Though his original ambition was to become President of Columbia, the life of crime seemed to suit Pablo more so than politics (Biography.com, 2017) During the Marlborough wars in Colombia, Escobar portrayed an eminent role in smuggling

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    Pablo Escobar was one of the most known and respected drug lords ever to be around. It is estimated that he killed many people. Of those many were columbian police officers. Even though he was a murderer and and a cocaine king pin many people saw him as a sort of Robin Hood figure. Many say he was evil while others say he was an inspiration. We only know him as Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviría( historychannel.com). The life of Pablo Escobar starts in rionegro, Columbia. He was 1 of 7 kids. Pablo grew

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