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Pablo Escobar
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This article is about the Medellín Cartel drug lord. For the Colombian footballer, see Pablo Andrés Escobar. For the Paraguayan-Bolivian footballer, see Pablo Daniel Escobar.
This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Escobar and the second or maternal familyname is Gaviria.
Pablo Escobar |
Born | December 1, 1949
Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia |
Died | December 2, 1993 (aged 44)
Medellín, Colombia |
Alias(es) | El Patrón, Don Pablo,
El Señor, El Robin Hood Criollo |
Conviction(s) | Drug trafficking and smuggling, assassinations,bombing, bribery,racketeering, money laundering, murder, political corruption |
Conviction Status | Deceased |Occupation | Head of the Medellín Cartel |
Spouse | Maria Victoria Henao |
Children | Juan Pablo, Manuela Escobar |
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist. He was an elusive cocaine trafficker[1] and a rich and successful criminal.[2] In 1983, he had a short-lived career in Colombian politics.
Contents  [hide]  *1 Early life * 2 Rise to power * 3 Height of power * 4 Personal life * 4.1 La Catedral prison * 4.2 Search Bloc and Los Pepes * 5 Death and afterward * 5.1 Exhumation * 5.2 Virginia Vallejo's version * 5.3 Relatives * 6 Quotations * 7 Popular depiction * 8 References * 9 Books * 10 External links |
-------------------------------------------------[edit]Early life
Pablo Escobar was born in the town of Rionegro,[3] Antioquia, Colombia, the third of seven children to Abel de Jesús Dari Escobar, a farmer, and Hemilda Gaviria, an elementary school teacher.[4] As a teenager on the streets of Medellín, he would begin his criminal career, allegedly stealing gravestones and sanding them down for resale to smugglers. His brother, Roberto Escobar, deniesthis, claiming that the gravestones came from cemetery owners whose clients had stopped paying for site care and that they had a relative who had a legitimate monuments business.[5] He studied for a short time at the University of Antioquia.[6]
Pablo was involved in many criminal activities — running petty street scams, selling contraband cigarettes and fake lottery tickets, and stealingcars.[1] In the early 1970s, he was a thief and bodyguard, and he made a quick $100,000 on the side kidnapping and ransoming a Medellín executive before entering the drug trade.[7] His next step on the ladder was to become a millionaire by working for the multi-millionaire contraband smuggler Alvaro Prieto. Pablo's childhood ambition was to become a millionaire by the time he was 22.[8]-------------------------------------------------
[edit]Rise to power
In The Accountant's Story, Pablo's brother, Roberto Escobar, discusses how Pablo rose from poverty and obscurity to become one of the wealthiest men in the world. At the height of its power, the Medellín drug cartel was smuggling 15 tons of cocaine a day, worth more than half a billion dollars, into the United States. According to Roberto,Pablo's accountant, he and his brother's operation spent $2500 a month just purchasing rubber bands to wrap the stacks of cash—and since they had more illegal money than they could deposit in the banks, they stored the bricks of cash in their warehouses, annually writing off 10% as "spoilage" when the rats crept in at night and nibbled on the hundred dollar bills.[8]
In 1975, Escobar starteddeveloping his cocaine operation. He even flew a plane himself several times, mainly between Colombia and Panama, to smuggle a load into the United States. When he later bought 15 new and bigger airplanes (including a Learjet) and 6 helicopters, he decommissioned the plane and hung it above the gate to his ranch at Hacienda Napoles. His reputation grew after a well known Medellín dealer named Fabio...