Pablo Escobar
Colombian drug lord (1949–1993)
- Fame69.6
- Momentum0.0
- Global rank#151
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- Fame69.6
- Momentum0.0
- Global rank#151
- Politicians rank#115
- Wikipedia536K
Lived 1949–1993, aged 44
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He built a cocaine empire that controlled most of the US supply in the 1980s, amassed $30 billion, and killed judges, police, and politicians who stood in his way. The search ended on a Medellín rooftop the day after he turned 44.
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Born in Rionegro in 1949 and raised in Medellín, Escobar left university without graduating and moved through petty crime — fake lottery tickets, car theft, kidnapping for ransom. In 1976 he founded the Medellín Cartel, establishing smuggling routes from Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador into the US; by the 1980s his operation was moving 70 to 80 tons of cocaine a month. The wealth bought him a seat in Colombia's Chamber of Representatives in 1982, where he funded houses and football pitches for the poor, but his political rise collapsed under pressure from Colombian and US authorities. Retaliation c…
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