Killing Pablo Sparknotes

Killing Pablo is an excellent account on the real live events of Colombia’s largest and infamous drug cartel called the Medellin Cartel led by Pablo Escobar. This book, written by Mark Bowden, tells the story of how Escobar was killed in the eyes of the Colombian Military, DEA and even the Central Intelligence Agency. Even though the book starts off as repetitive with names and organization being repeated over and over again we learn about the vast network that Pablo Escobar truly had and the relentless pursuit of Colombia and the United States in stopping the drug trade and murder of hundreds of innocent people. The appearance of Pablo Escobar truly shows how as an empire becomes too big and reaches too far its grip begins to loosen and its

Bowden is also and English professor at Loyola College in Maryland who teaches creative writing and journalism. He also has a bachelor's degree in Literature and writes for the Atlantic Monthly group. The book is split up into two parts being the escape of Pablo and his death.The first part starts off with Morris Busby, U.S. ambassador to Colombia, receiving a phone call from President Gaviria of Colombia telling him that Pablo Escobar had escaped his prison at La Catedral. Somehow, Pablo had managed to escape his prison after several Colombian Military platoons had been sent in order to capture him and send him to another prison where he would not be able to live so leisurely. At La Catedral he would enjoy hookers, drugs, and even the most expensive technology money could buy. It was a prison run by guards who he payed and the inmates were Pablo and his most trusted assassins or Sicarios. If Pablo could pay off his prison guards and was at one point on Forbes Top 10 richest men in the world then he could bribe even the army. Pablo was able to escape after one of the military platoons had let him slip away deliberately. He had been able to get his way either through bribing the captain in charge or threatening to kill

Centra Spike was a top secret group of Delta Force members who flew in a plane full of top secret equipment patrolling the skies. They used equipment that would pick up the signals emitted from telephones and would tap into them. After tapping into them, Centra Spike would then be able to pinpoint the location after flying in a triangular path to narrow down the location to an area of just 100 meters. The reason why Centra Spike was employed was because Pablo liked to communicate using telephones in order to operate his drug business. This would mean that Pablo had to restrict his call times and even use code words in order to communicate. Eventually Pablo would become more and more paranoid as the raids continued and he was being pushed into a corner. Pablo had become desperate and had to do something or he would never be able to stay in Medellin. At first he planned to negotiate with the President of Columbia saying that he would get back into Prison with the conditions being that it was in Medellin and that his men would not be extradited to the U.S. where they would be sentenced fairly without Pablo bailing them out. Fortunately, President Gaviria sternly refused his requests, Pablo had done his