Pablo Escobar Research Paper

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Samantha Marquez Pablo Escobar Pablo escobar was born on December 1, 1949 and on December 2 1993 he was a notorious Colombian drug lord who, at the height of his career, supplied about 80% of the cocaine smuggle in to the USA. Pablo Escobar was born in Rion Negro. The third of seven children to Abel de Jesus Dari Escobar, a farmer, and Hermilda Gaviria, an elementary school teacher. As a teen on the streets of Medellin, he began his criminal career by stealing gravestones and sanding them down for resale to smugglers. His brother, Roberto Escobar, denies this, 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 monuments business. He studied for a…show more content…
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 fifteen new and bigger airplanes including a Large and six helicopters, he decommissioned the plane and hung it above the gate to his ranch. In May 1976, Escobar and several of his men were arrested and found in possession of 39 pounds 18 kg of white paste after returning to Medellin with a heavy load from Ecuador. Initially, Pablo tried unsuccessfully to bribe the Medellín judges who were forming the case against him. Instead, after many months of legal wrangling, Pablo had the two arresting officers killed and the case was…show more content…
Pablo Escobar had said that the essence of the cocaine business was "Simple: you bribe someone here, you bribe someone there, and you pay a friendly banker to help you bring the money back In 1989, Forbes magazine estimated Escobar to be one of 227 billionaires in the world with a personal network worth of close to US $3 billion while his Medellin Cartel controlled 80% of the global cocaine market. It is commonly believed that Escobar was the principal financier behind Medellín's Atletico national who won South America's most prestigious football tournament. so I think that Pablo Escobar killed a lot of people but he knew what he was doing but now he’s the reason why theres more drug dealers in life he was the man who started everything now that he is dead, people try to fallow his steps just to get money or just for the fun of it. The truth is that people should stop with the drugs and look around and get good lives were children can learn how to be good in life.
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