“The Death of Pablo Escobar”
On December 1st, 1949, one of the most dangerous, frightening, wealthiest drug lords was born in Colombia; his name, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria. This drug lord wasn’t just any regular drug dealer. He killed anyone who interfered with his business. He was the head mastermind behind the Medellin Cartel, where he made tons of cocaine daily. This man seems like he would be a terrible person, however he did somethings to benefit the poor(1,Macias,Amanda). At his home in Puerto Triunfu, Escobar built a zoo filled with different animals such as hippos, giraffes, elephants, zebras, and even cheetahs! It is said that hippos still roam the grounds of his home today (4, Picone,Kiri). Pablo Escobar was one of
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He was ranked as the 7th richest man to be alive seven years in a row. He was so rich that he paid pilots 500k to smuggle cocaine in the tires of their airplanes into the united states. In attempt to change the law of extradition, Escobar paid off all of Colombia’s debt of 10,000,000,000 dollars. He always said extradition was his biggest fear because he didn’t want to spend his last days in an American jail cell. Escobar ran out of places to locate his money so he started putting it in barns and places where it could eventually spoil. That’s exactly what it did, 10% of Escobar’s earnings were lost to spoilage from humidity and rats. This fact I am about to share is one thing Pablo Escobar was famous for. While running from the police, Escobar’s daughter, Manuela, grew ill. To keep her warm instead of shivering, Escobar burned approximately $2,000,000 dollars to keep her warm. He had a special love for his family, even though he was involved in many affairs, he loved his wife and two children (4,Picone,Kiri). Pablo made a deal with the Colombian government that he would do jail time as long as he built and manufactured his own prison. They agreed and soon enough the La Catedral was built. This prison shouldn’t even be considered a prison because it held a casino, a nightclub, and even a spa. It was known to be a luxurious prison. This man had more money than he knew what to do with. He …show more content…
He was penalized for 5 years without bail. Pablo decided he wasn’t going down so he attempted to run away. He was posted all over Colombia. There was a special reward who brought Pablo to the Colombian police alive or dead. They needed to get this man out of Colombia and sent to the United States for jail time. There was a search set out to find Pablo. He was always good at hiding because he never showed his face, he had so many workers to do the dirty work for him. He was found hiding near his hometown where he was surrounded by the Colombian police and asked to surrender. He would not surrender and was gunned down one day before his 44th birthday. Some say it was the police who killed him, others say it was a self-inflicted bullet. His death was what lots of families wanted. Before we end this, I will tell you about some of the damage this man did. He killed more than 4,000 people including 200 judges, more than 1,000 policemen, journalists, and government officials. This man killed anybody who interfered with his business, family, friends, it doesn’t matter who you were. If he felt anyway threatened by anybody, consider them already dead. He was a dangerous man with a mixture of hate and love in his heart. His family had no idea of the crime life he lived, they were pretty much blindsided until they were forced
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduria General de la Republica, PGR) had issued information related to the conformation of the seven principal drug cartels present at Mexico:
As mentioned in in the article Baca “could not keep up academically nor mesh with the ‘normal’ kids who had families”. Without a family or friends to console him through his life he had to do what would keep him alive, sadly drugs and violence mixed into Baca’s life line to survive. He became a “successful” drug dealer, which is humorous because something that could have the chance to put you in jail or worse be killed should certainly be labeled as successful. At age 21 that’s exactly what happened, Baca was sentenced to 5-10 years in prison. Although his life seemed to be an endless layers of violence and crime, a new coating of his skin would began to emerge, ripping off his old hazardous
The retelling of his life mostly took place in the Los Angeles county; Boxer’s hometown but also in different jails and correction facilities around California. Events such as armed robberies, grand theft, and petty theft were crimes Enriquez was performing all of throughout city Los Angeles, as well as Orange County.. All were reasons that landed him behind bars. At the early age of 18, right when he became a man; Boxer was sent to Soledad Penitentiary in Northern California for 9 years. Reason was because of an Armed Robbery. A few years later, he was transferred to the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, California and then to Folsom Prison. While there, Boxer official...
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.
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.
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
They’ve set a shining example of how the will to make a difference can have drastic and incredible results effective or not to the immediate situation at hand, it encourages the surrounding people to question the value of their freedom. After the dictatorship fell, the trial of the murderers was on T.V. for a month, and they admitted to killing the Mirabal sisters and Rufino by strangulation. Although they died however, their sacrifice had not gone unnoticed. The memory of their sacrifice is honored today, by a national holiday and monuments, and through these closure is found, but their story is not lost. “Las Mariposas” leave an important legacy that enforces the ever existing
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...
Mexico has been fighting drug cartels and their violence since December of 2006, since then, the activity between these organizations and crimes have been on the rise. In Mexico, over 70,000 people have lost their lives in crimes and violence associated with the leading cartels of Mexico. These leading cartels include: The Beltran Leyva, Gulf Cartel, Juarez Cartel, La Familia Michoacana, Los Zetas and the Tijuana/Arellano Felix Cartel. One of the most important effects of these cartels is in the social life of the citizens. Most of the citizens are terrified of these cartels, to the point where streets seem vacant because the people are too scared to roam the streets. These cartels impose fear with acts such as that of September 15, 2008, when grenades were thrown into crowds in Morelia town square in an independence day celebration killing eight people. The soci...
...ays of getting out of his punishment including insanity, which was professionally proven not the case, and that someone with black gloves signed for him to do what he did. Which was also proven wrong. Mesa was charged with charged with two counts of felony murder, one while armed, along with some robbery and burglary charges. He went to jail for the rest of his life without parole.
Since taking over, he has smuggled more drugs and made more money than even Pablo Escobar (Forbes, 2012)
...rcía Márquez concentrates on the idea that the animals incorporated into the work are portrayed to highlight the degradation of Santiago Nasar and the nature of his murder.
...began to chase him. While trying to escape, Ramirez attempted to steal a car but was unaware that the owner was under the car trying to fix it. When Ramirez started the car the owner came out from underneath it and began to chase him. The mob was still in pursuit now armed with steal rods. They eventually caught up to him and several people beat him until the police got there. He was arrested and taken into custody. It was because of endless appeals that his trial lasted for 4 years. At the end of everything he was found guilty on 43 counts in the Los Angeles county that included 13 murders, burglary, sodomy, and, rape. He was sentenced to the death penalty in the gas chamber. He is still on death row and will continue to be until he is out of appeals. He is quoted as saying "You maggots make me sick. I will be avenged Lucifer dwells within all of us!".
Cubillos killing spree was from 1992 to 1999 when he got arrested. There had been found over 200 bodies by 1992. Bodies were found in 13 different places in Colombia and some found in Ecuador. His victims were peasants,poor,street, young boys. They were between the ages 8-16 and vulnerable. It wasn’t hard for him to choose his victims because “39% of the children in Colombia lived in poverty” (Terre des Hommes) (Routine Activity Theory). He offered the kids money, gifts, and drugs. It was easy for the boys to go because the life style they lived didn't offer them so when