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Killing Pablo: a Story full of Social and Political issues
Over decades, drugs, violence, and illegal acts have marked Colombian’s story and its citizens. Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden clearly shows how these issues have become a major problem in Colombia, causing lots of deaths because of the violence it creates. Pablo Escobar was one of the biggest drug traffickers in Colombia’s history; he also committed crimes of the utmost savagery. Political and Social issues have always been present in Colombian society, to a point where it creates war and violence.
Political issues were Escobar’s main reason to create a drug dealing empire and defy the government. One politician he hated was Luis Carlos Galan, Escobar planned several attacks against him, “The president was exasperated. He had been living with the threat of Pablo Escobar for years. During his entire campaign for president in 1989, he had expected to be killed by the drug boss. Escobar had tried …show more content…

He was a man full of enemies, the enemies planned several attacks against him and thousands of innocent people were killed. In 1993 this social problem became bigger as Bowden says, “The hunt for Escobar took an ugly turn in February 1993, when a vigilante group calling itself Los Pepes (Perseguidos por Pablo Escobar, or People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar) embarked on a campaign of murder and bombings” (Bowden 12). Los Pepes was one of the many cartels that envied Escobar, cartels that also gained lots of money for killing people. He had built such a big empire, he was in between the ten richest men in the entire world. These cartels wanted power, and Escobar had all the power, this is why their conflicts caused so much deaths to innocent people. His enemies were the biggest social problem Colombia had to affront between 1973 and 1993, issues between different cartels (gangs) that confronted each

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