Luis Carlos Galán

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord in the 1980s. He was born on December 1, 1949, to a teacher and a farmer. Growing up in the suburbs of Medellin, Pablo was constantly telling all of his friends and family that someone day he will become the president of Colombia. Escobar’s criminal activities started at an early age. He would go from cemetery to cemetery stealing gravestones and sanding them down in order to sell them to smugglers for a profit. As he got older he dropped the

Pablo Escobar is well known throughout the world as one of their greatest outlaws. He grew from obscurity to be the leading cocaine distributor in the world. He led an empire of terror, drugs, money, and violence. He was a gangster and outlaw in the ranks of icons such as Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, and John Gotti. He can only be understood by looking at the man’s early life, his rise to ultimate power, and the absolute necessity of ending his reign of terror by any means. Pablo Escobar was born

Around the time of 1978, a business was developing that would soon be wealthy enough to profit up to 60 million a month (Kelley). Despite its wealth, the Medellin Cartel was not exactly a legal enterprise. It devoted infinite amounts of time, money, and manpower to produce, sell, and distribute drugs throughout vast areas. At the head was Pablo Escobar, who was admired by many inside and outside of the cartel. Countless people were involved in his business, both voluntarily and involuntarily (Kelley)

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

The following essay examines the definitions of organized crime from the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Furthermore, the research examines how the two definitions relate to or are applicable to the Medellin Cartel of Columbia led by Pablo Escobar. In addition, this essay provides an analysis of Columbia’s social climate during Escobar’s reign and its contribution to his outlaw sense of social justice. Furthermore, this essay inspects the real Escobar

Juan Jose Mejia 8B Language Arts April 14, 2016 Pablo Escobar Pablo Escobar was one of the most wanted man in the world, during the 80s. Because he was involved in illegal activities such as killing people selling drugs to the US like cocaine. He was born in December 1, 1949 Rionegro Colombia. He was called by his hit men like El Patron (the boss). He killed at least 50 thousand people when he was a lived. He started as a hit men and later he started making progress in a bad way like a drug lord

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was one of the most remarkable drug traffickers that has ever lived. Pablo was born in a little town called Rionegro, located very close to Colombia’s capital which is Medellin. Escobar was a very ambitious person. One of Pablo’s famous known quotes was “plata o plomo” which means money or death. Although some people admired and idealized Pablo Escobar for many he was considered a criminal because, he was the leader and founder of the “Cartel De Medellin” which lead to

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

During the 1970’s through the late 1990’s Colombia was widely known as the birth place for the cocaine drug traffickers. Colombia has produced the two most famous drug traffickers that have produced lots of cocaine and tons of money. Those drug traffickers were Griselda Blanco and Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria and his Medellin Cartel. Pablo Escobar and his cartel, The Medellin Cartel did most destruction to the country of Colombia. But poverty in Colombia has been reduced due to Pablo Escobar and

Colombia has been a very unstable country for the past fifty years. Beginning in the 1960s Marxist guerilla groups formed. The two strongest groups called themselves the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the other was the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Making things worse, in the 1970s drug trafficking became a huge problem for Colombia. Drug cartels pretty much controlled the country starting in the mid-1970s. By the 1990s right-wing paramilitaries had formed. They