Pablo Escobar is one of the most notorious if not the most notorious drug dealers ever to walk this planet. Columbian born, Pablo Escobar was the leader of the largest cocaine processing and distributing organizations in the world. With a net worth of over fifteen billion dollars in American currency he was listed on Forbes as the seventh richest man during his reign. Pablo Escobar is one of the most influential and feared persons to ever live in Columbia. He had the money and the power to influence other people in Columbia that were also very well respected and powerful. He was a powerful person in the drug trade, smuggled his inventory across the world to Miami, and invented his own prison to ensure his safety. Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, a Colombian criminal who is head of the Medellín cartel, was …show more content…
As the cocaine industry grew in Colombia—thanks in part to its proximity to Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, major growers of coca, from which cocaine is derived. Escobar became involved in drug smuggling. In the mid-1970s he helped found the crime organization that later became known as the Medellín cartel. His notable partners included the Ochoa brothers: Juan David, Jorge Luis, and Fabio. Escobar served as head of the organization, which focused largely on the production, transport, and sale of cocaine. By the mid-1980s the Medellín cartel dominated the cocaine trade, with Escobar wielding incredible power and wealth. According to some reports, he was worth approximately $25 billion, which supported a lavish lifestyle that included a 7,000-acre estate in Colombia, where he housed giraffes, hippopotamuses, and camels, among other animals. He also funded various projects to aid the poor, earning him comparisons to Robin Hood. That perception helped Escobar win election to an alternate seat in the country’s Congress in 1982. He handled problems with “plata o plomo,”
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Born into a poor family Joaquin only stayed in school till 3rd grade By then he was taken out to help his father with his drug business. When Guzman turned 15 he set out on his own to start his own drug business, which was so successful he was able to support his whole family, and even by his mother a mansion in an otherwise poor city. His drug company evolved into the Sinaloa Cartel and Joaquin Guzman became EL Chapo the Osama Bin Laden of the Drug Trade known for his brutal and meticulous tactics. El Chapo became one of the richest men in the world earning a place on Forbes billionaires list for four years until they took him off because they couldn't find his money's origin. He is also considered one of the greatest criminals in Mexico escaping 2 supermax prisons 2001 and 2015 and becoming the only other man besides Al Capone to be Chicago's public enemy No.1. El Chapo’s power not only over the Mexican drug cartel but also financially has made him a difficult person for the police to
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was born on April 4, 1957 in Sinaloa, Mexico. He was born into a poor family in a rural community. His parents are Emilio Guzman Bustillos and Maria Consuelo Loera Perez. For numerous generations, his family’s legacy lived and died in La Tuna, Sinaloa. Although a number of myths about his father being an opium farmer have not been proven, he was actually a cattle rancher. Guzman has two younger sisters and four younger brothers. As a child, Guzman had a responsibility of selling oranges. In fact, he dropped out of school in the third grade to work for his father. Although his father physically abused him and treated him brutal, he stood up to his father when it came to his younger siblings for their own protection.
Other than facing a few charges in the United States, El Chapo managed to escape any severe penalties and he soon earned the title, “Osama Bin Laden of drug trafficking.” In 1989, El Chapo was able to fund his own drug organization with the help of some of his former boss’s territory. His business, known as Sinaloa put him on the radar as one of Mexico’s most powerful and dangerous drug traffickers. “As the power of the Colombian drug cartels like Medellin and Cali began to wane, Sinaloa…. took control of the cocaine trade extending from South America to the United States.” (http://whereiselchapoguzman.com/) Sinaloa trafficked heroin, mariguana and methamphetamine into the United States, eventually expanding to five continents and grew into the biggest drug operation in the world. He produced gangs including “Los Chachos”, “Los Lobos” and “Los Negros” to protect his empire. “Over the years, Guzmán’s men have been accused of committing more than 1,000 murders throughout all of Mexico.”
In addition, his success was also due to corruption in Colombia. The government was so corrupted that nearly half of all the police department in Colombia was working for Pablo Escobar illegally. This made it easy for Pablo to control them over time through money, persuasion and threats. In the end, with too much power comes to much responsibility of which Pablo could not handle, and eventually was pressured into getting caught and was shot by a Colombian officer. After this, the news about Pablo’s death was revolutionary for Colombia.
At this stage he wore a lot of jewerly; he had his rolex watches, golden necklaces and rings. Escobar live through the 80’s, during this time period they wore a button up colorful and stripe shirts with unbutton buttons exposing his chest. Since he was a rich drug lord he had to show others that he was rich, that's why during this time period he wore what rich americans wore during the 80’s in America. Since he trafficked to Miami he was influenced by what the men in Miami wore. By him dressing up as an American I believe he was trying to establish himself as a wealthy man because during that time period most of the people of Columbia were poor and Escobar dressing up with clothes that were imported from the U.S, showed that he had money. I also believe that escobar exposing his chest was a way of him saying that he had strength because he was exposing a muscular part of the body or it could have been because of the weather, Colombia has a tropical climate that is hot and
He and Carlos Lehder worked together to develop a new island trans-shipment point in the Bahamas, called Norman's Cay. Carlos and Robert Vesco purchased most of the land on the island, which included a 3,300 foot airstrip, a harbor, hotel, houses, boats, aircraft and even built a refrigerated warehouse to store the cocaine. From 1978 to 1982, this was used as a central smuggling route for the Medellín Cartel. (According to his brother's account, Pablo did not purchase Norman's Cay. It was, instead, a sole venture of Carlos Lehder.) Escobar was able to purchase the 7.7 square miles (20 km2) of land, which included Hacienda Napoles, for several million dollars. He created a zoo, a lake and other diversions for his family and organization.[11] At one point, it was estimated that seventy to eighty tons of cocaine were being shipped from Colombia to the U.S. every month. At the peak of his power in the mid-1980s, he was shipping as much as eleven tons per flight in jetliners to the United States (the biggest load shipped by Pablo was 23,000 kg mixed with fish paste and shipped via boat, as confirmed by his brother in the book Escobar). In addition to using the planes, Pablo's brother, Roberto Escobar, said he also used two small remote-controlled submarines to transport the massive loads (these subs were, in fact, manned and this is again documented in Roberto's
It was a time of civil war between the Columbian Conservative Party and the Columbian Liberal Party. However, vast numbers of people were killed on his command. His particular way of handling any authorities questioning his actions was to bribe them or to kill them, or ‘plata o plomo’, Colombian slang for ‘money or bullets’. Escobar was believed to have had Medellin drug lord Fabio Restrepo murdered in 1975, in order to take over full leadership of the Medellin Cartel.
The cartels are now in control of most of the drug trades and are successful. The Mexican border gives them the power to go everywhere they desire, making them a relentless force. “To date operation Xcellrator has led the arrest of 755 individuals and the seizure of approximately 5 U.S. Currency more than 12,000 kilograms of cocaine, more than 16,000 pounds of marijuana, more than 11,000 of methamphetamine, more than 8 kilograms of heroin, approximately 1.3 million pills of ecstasy”(Doj 2). Mexican cartels extend to central and southern America. Columbia is the supply of much of the cocaine exported to the U.S. Colombia is under control of South American gangs, they do business with the Mexican cartels to transport drugs the north. The Northern Mexican gangs hold the most control because the territory is very important (Wagner1). They are many different types of cartel in Mexico it also signifies that there are killing each other so their cartel can expand an...
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
Pablo Escobar dedicated most of his life to being the spearhead of the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia. The Medellin Cartel was not just a business, it was an empire. It possessed countless camps as well as laboratories devoted to the production of drugs. As it was mentioned earlier, the profits of the cartel were very high. The immense amount of money was put toward the purchase of new labs, planes, and even an island. The Medellin Cartel focused predominantly on cocaine. Not only did Pablo Escobar run a “criminal enterprise” committed to illegally trafficking drugs, he was also “responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of government officials, police, prosecutors, judges, journalists, and innocent bystanders” (Kelley). By spending large amounts of money on public projects to help others, many saw him as a very generous, caring man. Most people only saw the Pablo Escobar that loved to share his wealth with those who needed it in his hometown. They did not see what he was really capable of, commit...
Escobar was the leader of the Cartel of Medellin Who is responsible of 623 attacks, 100 bombs in one of that attacks Colegio Panamericano nurse Paola have been affected and said that was a miracle that the bomb that explode two houses away for her in Medellin did not affect anyone in his family unit, one airplane attack that left 111 dead people and more than 15.000 deaths in the narco era of Escobar. ( Semana) Netflix makes Escobar seem like a cool person and a family man that make the series believe us that he was. Also they show that being a narco is the coolest and easy thing in the world this make the young generations to think that being a narco is the best thing of the world. Juan Pablo Marroquin the son of Pablo Escobar said"I receive tonnes of messages from youths asking for help to be like my dad. They want to be that criminal, they send me photos dressed up like him, with his moustache, his hairstyle," Juan Pablo Marroquin added.
The first underground tunnels used to smuggle drugs across the Mexican border into the US were built under his command
He was one of the worlds richest people in the 1980s.9 In 1989 he was the seventh richest person in the world.9 His personal wealth was 25 billion dollars.9 Escobar became more and more violent.2 He became greedy for power and money.2 He went against the government and the Cali Cartel.2 The Cali Cartel was their main rival.2 Their enemies were the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers and Santacruz Londono.2 The Cali Cartel started attacking the Medellin Cartel mainly to kill Pablo Escobar.2 The Cali Cartel formed a group called Los Pepes, People persecuted by Pablo Escobar.2 They attacked his homes, men, and business.2 The Cali Cartel gave the police and DEA ( Drug Enforcement Administration ) information about Pablo Escobar.2 The Cali Cartel got more powerful in the cocaine trade when the police was more focused on Pablo
The paper traces Escobar's life from humble peasant beginnings to powerful cocaine drug dealer and kingpin. The paper discusses the sound financial decisions Escobar made as well as the way he invested in legitimate projects using the funds he gained illegally. The paper explores the influence Escobar had and the way he worked, ultimately unsuccessfully, to establish a no-extradition clause into the Colombian constitution.