Colombia in the twentieth century was still chaotic, with american and British capital plunder, civil strife in the country, and the smoke of war. Continued social unrest has led to a proliferation of smuggling and rampant drug traffickers.
During this period, a major drug dealer named Pablo Escobar appeared, who was called "the most arrogant drug lord in history".
He ignored the law, did things without a bottom line, openly rebelled against the government, persecuted government officials, and was a thorn in the side of the Colombian and U.S. governments. His Medley drug cartel, which runs amok, is the hegemon of Colombia's drug smuggling trade.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="4" >, the rise of Escobar</h1>
Escobar was born in 1949 in Medellin, Colombia, a city surrounded by mountains and waters and a pleasant climate. Yet the gap between rich and poor exists at any time and anywhere.
Life does not pity the poor, nor does it favor the rich, and their own choices are the key to life. And Escobar's choice from an early age was the beginning of his life's black saga.
Poverty almost permeated Escobar's childhood, where the surrounding area was in chaos, everyone was at risk, and there was no bottom line for money.
The poverty of his family and the hardships of life made him extremely eager for money. In his understanding, making money is the top priority, and everything else has to stand on the sidelines.
Escobar dropped out of school within a few years of schooling, and in his view of schooling was a waste of time.
He wandered the streets of Madeleine very early, looking for opportunities to make money.
At first, Escobar was young, had little ability to work, and lived off petty theft. At first, he had no experience or skills, so he was often caught, and then he was beaten badly, and his body was scarred. These things left the seeds of violence in his heart.
The stolen goods were limited after all, and in order to survive, he found another "job" and sold tombstones. Scrape off the inscriptions on old tombstones and sell them upside down for a gain.
The job requires no technology, just be bold, and there is no bottom line such as ethics and morality. Of course, Escobar didn't think about that, and in his opinion, it was just a way to make money.
Reselling tombstones was hard, time-consuming, laborious, and unprofitable, and Escobar soon grew tired of the "job."
Later, he found a new way to make money, reselling second-hand cars, stealing cars while selling them, and the business was very happy and profitable.
Theft was illegal, and soon the young Escobain entered the police station by stealing, and after that, he often dealt with the police station.
At this time, he realized that if he wanted to develop further, he needed to be taken care of by the police. He used money to open the way and established good cooperation with Medellín officials and police.
Soon after, Escobar discovered a new way to make money – smuggling.
He smuggled home appliances, tobacco, alcohol and other goods from Panama to Colombia for profit, and relied on the government and the police's money partners to make the smuggling business bigger and bigger.
Over time, Escobar's smuggling business has reached its peak, with its own smuggling channels, and more than 40 transport vehicles are used for smuggling.
But human desires are unlimited, and in order to make more money, Escobar turned his attention to cocaine.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > arrogant, crazy drugs</h1>
In the 1960s and 1970s, western countries dominated by the United States were in a period of rapid development after World War II, and the rise of industry and science and technology greatly changed the social state, and various life regulations and laws and policies became more and more sound.
But many young Americans don't approve of this change, believing that humanity is bound by a variety of institutions and that they crave "freedom."
In order to rebel against this society, they live a life of wanton indulgence. Some people start taking drugs, numbing their minds and allowing themselves to live in "fantasy beauty."
"Drug use" became an alternative fashion among young Americans for a time, and according to incomplete statistics, more than three-fifths of American college students in that era had a history of drug use.
As the number of drug users in the United States grew and the demand for drugs grew, Escobar saw this business opportunity and planned to change careers and go into the drug business.
Cocaine was first discovered as a local anesthetic and antidepressant in the medical field, and was used for a long time thereafter to treat hallucination. Gradually, the hallucinogenicity of cocaine was discovered, and then it was abused as a drug.
Coca leaves are the main source of the drug cocaine extraction, and Colombia is one of the main producers of coca leaves, because its climate is very suitable for the growth of coca, growing large areas of coca in the fields, suburbs, and mountains.
Escobar began setting up drug factories in remote areas of Colombia, hiring "experts" to extract cocaine from coca leaves, further processing them into drugs, and smuggling them into the United States through its own smuggling channels.
The U.S. drug market is large, and there are so many drug dealers active in the U.S. market that it is not easy to stand out in such a fierce competition. But Escobar was very business-minded, and in order to ensure the smooth production, transportation and trafficking of drugs, Escobar spent a lot of money to create a private force to protect his drugs.
Taking advantage of the special development method of "using the military to protect drugs and raising the army with drugs", coupled with the increase in the demand for drugs in the US market, Escobar's drug smuggling business has become bigger and bigger, and it has become more and more publicized.
At his peak, the private armed forces in his hands numbered more than 40,000 men and were equipped with sophisticated combat equipment.
During that period, the Colombian Navy had a combat helicopter equipped with the "Sidewinder anti-aircraft missile", called the "Skylark", and Escobar was very fond of the excellent performance of the "Skylark", he directly sent three fighters to intercept the "Skylark" in flight, forcing it to land at his own airfield. At this point, the "Skylark" became his special plane.
The growing drug business and the innumerable amounts of money made made many people blush and want a piece of the pie. But Escobar has a lot of business means, and he adopts annexation of small drug trafficking groups, and for larger groups, he adopts the method of cooperative sharing and develops together. With more and more members and a growing size, the Medellín drug cartel was born.
At its peak, the Medellín drug cartel, with hundreds of drug lords large and small, and a vast network of tens of thousands of people, monopolized the drug smuggling trade in Colombia almost the whole of Colombia. Its boss, Escobar, is also increasingly asset-rich.
How much does Escobar cost?
He is reported to buy about $1,000 a week in rubber bands to tie up cash. He once burned $2 million in cash just to keep his daughter warm in the cold.
He was named one of the "World's Richest People" by Fortune magazine for his drug trade, with a net worth of $30 billion and the only one to enter the list of the world's richest people by drug trafficking.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > tragedy, police lament</h1>
"The Colombian people have finally taken up a powerful weapon against US imperialism, and we are not responsible for the 25 million drug addicts in American society!" Escobar said this in an interview with the media.
His arrogance, madness, laid the groundwork for his end.
Drug trafficking is illegal at any time, in any place. However, Escobar tried to change this perception and legalize the drug trade.
He began to whitewash himself, making donations, funding the poor and a series of other charitable actions. He even provided employment opportunities for nearly 300,000 people, gained countless reputations, was known as the "Robin Hood of Latin America", and became the true king of the drug kingdom.
With the power of money, he became a great benevolent person in the eyes of the locals and a "national hero" in the eyes of Colombians.
There is no end to human ambition, and as his prestige grew, Escobar became delusional to become president of Colombia, and he began to give speeches and competitions, buying people's hearts with money, and anyone who voted for him could receive a variety of cash rewards, and his approval rating was getting higher and higher.
Eventually he successfully entered Congress, became a member of Congress, and was eligible for presidential election. From drug dealer to parliamentarian, he was only one step away from becoming the master of Colombia.
Skynet was restored, neglected but not leaked. In 1976, Escobar was arrested by the Medellín police for drug trafficking. He didn't care about it, because the Medellín police station at the time was almost full of Escobar's money partners. After leaving a slyly crime archive photo at the police station, he was quickly released from prison.
However, it was this photograph that was exposed when he was about to succeed, completely shattering his dreams of entering politics. But there are also countless people who have lost their lives as a result.
Next, there was bloody and brutal revenge.
Disillusioned with his "dreams," Escobar bribing the army, drove tanks into the Justice Department, abducted 25 justices, and left calmly after killing 11 of them.
Garland, another candidate who was running for president at the same time as him, promised not to spare any of the drug dealers in his candidacy, and was killed under the protection of dozens of people because of Escobar's frenzied retaliation.
The Colombian government was furious and announced a warrant for Escobar's arrest. However, as long as the police involved in his arrest, it was definitely not more than 3 days, and he was shot or assassinated.
Escobar went crazy, he issued a reward order for the police on the underworld, a reward of $1,000 for killing a policeman, a reward of $2,000 for a deputy captain, and $5,000 for the captain, and countless policemen were killed.
According to statistics, in the two years since, more than 5,000 Colombian police officers have died due to the Medellín drug cartel. This period is the lament of the Colombian police.
Escobar's methods were so brutal that the Colombian Ministry of Justice had to cancel the arrest warrant, and his brutality cast a serious psychological shadow on the government office.
In 1987, Escobar's brother Ochoa was arrested by the police, but no one interrogated him, and the judges and presidents of the courts, fearing that they would burn themselves, would rather resign than hear the case. As a result, the Colombian Ministry of Justice had to release Ochoa.
But justice will never be absent, and all sins will be judged.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > end, the end of the drug lord</h1>
From 12 to 26 June 1987, the United Nations convened the Ministerial Conference on The Abuse of Narcotic Drugs and Illicit Trafficking, attended by more than 3,000 representatives from 138 countries, in Vienna. Further discussions on the dangers of drugs and guidance recommendations are provided.
Delegates agreed to designate 26 June as the International Day Against Drugs to draw attention to the drug problem in countries around the world and to call on people around the world to work together to solve the drug problem.
Influenced by international policies, the Colombian government at that time reinvigorated its strength and resolved to clear its territory, issuing a "comprehensive anti-drug" directive against the rampant drug dealers in its territory.
The crazy and arrogant drug lord Escobar has now begun to come to an end.
In 1989, the Colombian government, in conjunction with the United States Government, launched the largest anti-drug operation ever conducted, with the goal of eliminating the Medellín Group and capturing Escobar.
200 Colombian special forces members trained by the United States were directly parachuted in, and thousands of officers and men of the elite 14th Brigade of the Colombian Defense Forces were surrounded on both sides.
Cut off land and sea escape routes, and finally a bomber group of 50 F-16 fighters will carry out a devastating bombing of the base in Escobar, almost leveling the whole!
However, Escobar and his men miraculously escaped and continued to tangle with colombian government forces. However, after this, the Medellín Group has also fallen to the altar.
Exhausted by the government's ongoing crackdowns, Escobar offered a conditional surrender: the government would guarantee its personal property and build a prison guarded by regular forces to ensure the lives of drug dealers.
In June 1991, the Colombian government acceded to Escobati's request. Eventually, Escobar was held in a luxurious prison with baths, private suites, kitchens and more.
In July 1992, fearing extradition to the United States for trial, Escobar paid off prison guards and successfully escaped.
Following this, the Colombian government established a special operations team to arrest Escobar. Finally, on December 2, 1993, Escobar was shot dead by the Task Force, ending his bloody life.
The life of the drug lord Escobar, full of black legends, came to an end, and the shadow hanging over the Colombian government was finally gone.
The harm of drugs is huge, and countless addicts have ruined their families due to drug use. Nowadays, we often see a lot of public service advertisements on anti-drug on television, billboards and on the Internet, "Cherish life, stay away from drugs", "Drug dealers harm others and harm themselves, anti-drug and anti-drug are beneficial to the country and the people!" A series of anti-drug slogans are even more familiar.
Drug trafficking is guilty, drug use is shameful! Rejecting drugs is everyone's obligation and responsibility. The number of police officers who die on the front lines of drug enforcement every year is innumerable, they are heroes, heroes for all. Our zero-tolerance attitude towards drugs is the best reward for our heroes!