He is the boss of the most brutal and richest violent organization in the world, and he is like a schoolboy compared to the American gangsters, and the Japanese Yamaguchi group is like a church choir. He is known for his title of "Murderous Devil" and is also called "The Great Benevolent Man" by many poor people; his imprisonment and escape not only shocked his countrymen, but also made the United States and other countries restless. He's the big Colombian drug lord, Pablo. Escobar.
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The millionaire's dream of a rural baby
Pablo. Escobar was born in a small town on the outskirts of Medellin, Colombia, the son of an ordinary farmer and a mother who worked as an elementary school teacher. Pablo had many siblings, but his family was poor.
Because of poverty, Pablo saw social injustice from an early age. He knew that the root of all his suffering came from poverty, so Pablo's dream from an early age was to become a millionaire.
Pablo's first pot of gold began by stealing a tombstone, which he stole from the cemetery, scraped off the inscription, and resold it at a low price. After doing it a few times, I felt that this kind of "business" not only made myself gray-headed, but also could not make a few dollars. So I changed my career to a car salesman.
But the income of the car salesman still did not meet Pablo's dream of becoming a millionaire, and he had the opportunity to work with car dealers. He gets customer information about the new car from the car dealer, steals the car and shares the loot with the dealer.
From the initial individual activity, it became the later collective action. More and more people stole cars, and Pablo began to charge "car protection fees", and people had to pay him protection fees in order to keep the cars from being stolen.
Pablo. Escobar's drug empire
As he grew older, so did Pablo's desire for money. Pablo discovered a more lucrative "business" of smuggling drugs. Money from drug smuggling comes much faster than stealing cars.
In 1976, Pablo was arrested for smuggling 20 kilograms of drugs, but he was not punished accordingly. Instead, the police who arrested him and the judge who tried the case were assassinated, and even the room where Pablo's case file and evidence were stored was caught on fire for unknown reasons. With no case file or evidence left, the court was unable to hear Pablo's case, and Pablo walked out of the detention facility with a big wave.
In the 1980s, the textile industry in Medellin, the capital of Colombia, declined rapidly, and the unemployment soared, reaching 80%. However, the farmland on the outskirts was deserted, and many farmers flocked to the cities to make a living, making Medellín, who was not rich, even worse.
Pablo seized the moment, since smuggling and trafficking in drugs is so profitable, why not produce drugs himself?
Pablo visited farms around Medellín and taught local farmers to grow coca, an important ingredient in cocaine. Under Pablo's meticulous cultivation, coca, which was originally harvested twice a year, developed into four harvests a year. Pablo also recruited unemployed people and some farmers from the city to become coca growers and cocaine workers, and it is said that at most his farms and factories combined totaled 50,000 people.
In 1981, at the age of 32, Pablo was elected head of the Medellín drug cartel, and as boss Pablo further refined his drug empire.
He used a modern large-scale business model to run his drug factory, hired smuggling experts with professional knowledge and innovative methods at high salaries, and even used technology to transform drug trafficking tools and create new drug trafficking methods.
To cement his drug empire, Pablo built an army with about 3,000 mercenaries. The mercenaries were hired by Pablo at high salaries from Israel, South Africa, britain, the United States and other places, and were equipped with advanced weapons and equipment. In the face of this armed group, even the Colombian national army is afraid of three points.
Pablo controlled the world's cocaine trade in its heyday, using it to create more than $3 billion in wealth. Happiness magazine ranked Pablo as the 14th richest man in the world.
Do you want money or bullets?
In addition to being known as the richest man, Pablo is also known as the "Killer Devil", and it is illegal to smuggle drugs in any country. In the face of government officials, Pablo took the banknote in one hand and the bullet in the other for them to choose. The Pablo drug cartel has a department dedicated to bribery and assassination, as well as a school for training killers.
Pablo spent heavily on bribes to government officials and judges. In 1985 and 1986 alone, the bribe amounted to $1.5 million. Justice officials who did not accept bribes were either assassinated or accidentally killed.
Journalists, attorney generals, attorney generals, mayors of Medellín, and even presidential candidates who stand in the way of Pablo's drug career are killed. On one occasion, a Colombian flight with more than a hundred people was directly destroyed, only because there were several anti-drug personnel on the plane.
According to colombian official statistics, in the decade between 1981 and 1991 alone, more than 20,000 people died at the hands of drug dealers, including 157 judges and 3,500 anti-narcotics police. In the two years from 1989 to 1990, there were more than three hundred bombings planned by Pablo. The Pablo drug empire has the highest level of violent terror in South America.
"The Great Good Man" Pablo. Escobar
As a world-famous drug lord, Pablo's wealth can be called "rich and invincible". He has 96 registered manor houses and has a private park of 600 hectares, and the private zoo has more animals than in Colombia's National Zoo. He owns 1 medium-sized aircraft, 5 small airliners, 1 helicopter and a bulletproof vehicle.
With more than 2,000 cronies, minions, bodyguards, etc., Pablo's parrots spend the monthly purchase of feed equivalent to a month's salary of Colombian workers. It is said that in 2015, Colombian farmers dug up 10 barrels of cash in the fields, amounting to 600 million US dollars, and according to the investigation, the money was buried by Pablo's people, and people speculated that this money may be just one of Pablo's burial sites.
Pablo, who came from a poor background, knew better about the difficulties of the poor, and he bought land to build well-equipped unit houses for his fathers and countrymen in his hometown. He grew his hometown from a devastated town into a city of 100,000 people, with 32 kindergartens, 23 elementary schools, 28 secondary schools and 2 universities. He was known by the locals as a deity and "Pablo the Great Good".
World drug lord Pablo is arrested
Although Pablo owns several manor houses, he spends most of his time directing his drug empire in the deep mountains and old forests. Since 1984, the Colombian government has wanted to arrest Pablo and offer a $400,000 bounty, but each time it has allowed Pablo to escape.
In the face of the government's repeated encirclement and suppression, Pablo negotiated with the government on the condition that the extradition of Colombians be prohibited. Among Colombian drug dealers, there is a saying that "I would rather die in a Colombian grave than go to a U.S. prison.". The war on drugs that has been going on for years is finally coming to peace.
On the afternoon of June 19, 1991, after the Colombian Constitutional Council passed a bill prohibiting the extradition of Colombians, Pablo finally made up his mind to surrender. He was then taken into the municipality of Medellín and handcuffed, and escorted directly to a special prison at the foot of the Andes Mountains, accompanied by a consultative priest.
After Pablo was imprisoned, several of the drug trafficking organization's big and small leaders, drug traffickers, surrendered to the government. Pablo lives in a prison with his own football stadium, artificial waterfalls, bars, etc., and it has to be said that rich people are very comfortable even if they live in prison.
After a year in prison, Pablo escaped. In July 1992, President Gaviria, who was supposed to attend the Ibero-American Summit, decided not to attend the meeting for the time being, and the President made a speech saying that the Colombian government would continue to pursue and severely punish the criminals.
Why did Pablo, a generation of drug kings, escape from the supposedly tightest prison in South America? Probably the charm of money.
After escaping, Pablo never used the phone so as not to expose himself. After 16 months of absconding, the police no longer protected his family, and Pablo was disorganized after his wife and son were denied asylum in Germany. On December 2, 1993, Pablo and his family had a 5-minute phone call revealing their whereabouts, and Pablo tried to escape again, but was shot dead on the roof by the police.
It is said that at Pablo's funeral, the peasants who had helped him came to pay his funeral. To a certain extent, he is the "great benevolent man" in the eyes of these poor people, but he is still the "poison king" who has torn countless families apart.