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In front of this photo, the person who fell in the middle, don't think that this is just a middle-aged uncle who is barefoot fat and greasy, he is the most arrogant Colombian drug lord ever, not to say that he is absolutely queen, but absolutely unprecedented. What Mexican "drug lord godfather" Miguel Felix, the notorious biggest drug lord "dwarf" Guzmán, in front of him are all proper "brothers and sisters".
"The Godfather of Narcos" Felix
The biggest drug lord, Mexico Guzman
Just how crazy his life really was, let's look at the few things he did below: building poor neighborhoods, serving as a member of Congress, running for president, ranking seventh on the Forbes Rich List (once); conspiring to take over the Supreme Court, assassinating the attorney general, presidential candidates, kidnapping the daughter of a former president, blowing up planes, building a private army, and even building his own prison. Of course, these are just the tip of the iceberg in his crazy life.
Pablo Escobar
As a child, Pablo was poor, yes, poor, so poor that he often went to school in broken shoes. After a long and arduous life, a strong desire to "speak up for the poor and challenge those in power" sprouted in his young mind. Of course, the realization of this wish is to money, and when he grew up, Pablo began to do some smuggling fraud, stealing chickens and dogs, extortion and extortion (part-time work is impossible to work, it is impossible to work in this life), and has become an authentic "street slipper".
Being a "street skater" was not Pablo's ideal. Once, he heard his eldest cousin "Cockroach" say: The people of the United States are all crazy about cocaine, selling that money-making speed is like riding a rocket, what do we want to do with bicycles. At this moment, Pablo deeply understood the meaning of the phrase "women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, and men are afraid of entering the wrong line", and immediately decided not to become a drug lord on the street, and from then on embarked on the journey of conquering the US empire with drugs, and also profoundly changed the fate of the entire colombian country, draped in the veil of "magic realism".
With the money and contacts saved by the former street skaters, coupled with his own developed brain, Pablo quickly opened up the sales path of the US empire and occupied the Market in Miami. A steady stream of cocaine flowed into the U.S. empire, a lot of money rolled in, and in just a few years, Pablo quickly made it to the Forbes rich list. In Pablo's view, this is revenge for us imperialism, but also a manifestation of patriotism (eh, how does this sound so familiar?). ）。
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How rich is Pablo? Spent $1 million to get a group of Himalayan egrets into their own estates, a lot of money rotted due to years of burial in the soil, and so on. This is called trench inhumanity!
The rich Pablo began to realize his childhood dream, he distributed food to the homeless, built houses for the slums, built communities, engaged in education, and started teams. Pablo, who were ignored by the politicians at the top, paid the greatest attention to them. As a result, he had a high prestige among the lower classes and was known as the "Robin Hood of the Ghetto". To this day, there are still many old people who remember him and remember the "great benevolent people" in their hearts.
The old Colombians are nostalgic for Pablo
Pablo speaks on the campaign
As the saying goes, the "street skater" who doesn't want to be president is not a good drug lord. In 1982, Pablo was elected to the Colombian Congress, and he began running for president, advocating for the welfare of the poor and uniting against the rich and the powerful.
Pablo and his football team
That year, he was 32 years old, the leader of the Medellín drug cartel, with countless money, high prestige among the people, nearly 40,000 militants, dozens of helicopter gunships, more than twenty gunboats, submarines, dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, and even surface-to-surface missiles.
That year, he was full of spirits, thinking that the whole of Colombia was at his feet and that it was only a matter of time before he took the presidency.
That year, he fell very badly, very badly.
Here's the thing, that day, the confident Pablo went to congress, but unexpectedly, the minister of justice he had funded (bribed) lara to rebel against the water, publicly accused him of drug trafficking, saying that we could not sell our motherland to a drug dealer. Soon after, photos of Pablo's arrest for drug trafficking were posted.
Photograph of Pablo who was arrested for drug trafficking
As soon as the news came out, public opinion was in an uproar (isn't this something that everyone already knows?). Pablo was so angry that he simply sent someone to shoot the attorney general.
Pablo kept trying, didn't you say you had evidence of my drug trafficking? Then I will join forces with the Colombian M-19 communist guerrillas to take your Supreme Court and burn it to the ground.
At this time, the Colombian top brass was completely angry and threatened to cooperate with the United States, package and mail all drug dealers to the United States, and sign an extradition agreement.
Pablo panicked, because this is what Pablo is most afraid of, after all, the United States is not familiar with life, what if you are blown up in prison? Without saying a word, he ran away and went to Panama, determined to prevent the signing of this agreement at all costs, so he began to write letters to publicize the lack of right of US imperialism to interfere in the internal affairs of Colombia, which was a violation of Colombian human rights. As for the officials, the bribes that should be bribed, the intimidation that should be intimidated, and those who really "can't get in the oil and salt", will send people to wipe the necks of others and carry the entire family members.
At that time, the presidential candidate Garland was such a "non-importer of oil and salt", and he must sign an agreement with the US imperialists to pack and mail you drug dealers. As a result, his approval rating is quite high, and he is very likely to be elected president. Pablo was also very direct, sending people to feed Garland in public to eat a few "peanut rice".
The Colombian people were furious and took to the streets to mourn and protest. Pablo felt that it was not enough, in order to eradicate the aftermath, Pablo decided to bomb Galan's successor, presidential candidate Govilia, without success, resulting in the largest aircraft crash in Colombian history, more than 100 innocent people were killed, including 2 Americans, shocking the world.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan was utterly furious and unleashed his words to use the military to hunt down the country.
Pablo softened, and he demanded peace talks with the Colombian government, and as long as the government did not extradite him to the United States and guarantee the safety of his family and property, he could turn himself in, and even help the government pay off more than a billion dollars in debt. Of course, there is also a condition, that is, the prison itself.
The newly appointed President Govilla was also tough and disagreed. disagree? In this simple way, Pablo launched a new round of assassinations against the elite, and even directly kidnapped the daughter of the former president to blackmail the new president.
Govilia also softened and agreed to Pablo's request. So Pablo lived in the luxurious prison "Cathedral" he built, and the army and police were not allowed in the 20th square garden of the prison.
Let's look at Pablo's luxurious prison, the man's prison is like this, this, his prison is like this, this. Just ask you envy jealousy hate? In prison, Pablo also killed 2 of his important subordinates and collaborators because Pablo suspected them of infidelity. Pablo continued to remotely control his cocaine business in prison.
You think it's over, no no no. Because the cage was a cage after all, it wasn't long before Pablo was jailbroken.
After the escape, Pablo not only wanted to arrest him by the Colombian government, but also the U.S. government wanted to arrest him, and his partner, the drug dealer in the south, and the four brothers of the Cali group wanted him to die. The firefight between drug dealers and drug dealers is very bloody, so we won't talk about it here. In short, Pablo's drug-making and drug trafficking dens were removed one by one, and Pablo's wings began to evaporate one by one. The once-mighty Medellín drug cartel began to crumble.
Desperate, Pablo began a hysterical frenzied revenge, ordering the police to be killed at the sight of him, with a bounty of hundreds of dollars and thousands of dollars for the officers. As well as several terrorist attacks, which have affected innocent civilians.
In 1993, after a hail of bullets, the obese Pablo collapsed barefoot on the roof of a slum, the same photo we started with.
Pablo was killed by the Colombian military, along with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Is Pablo bad? Indeed, Pablo has committed many disgraceful crimes, and countless people have fallen beneath him, and the arrogance has overwhelmed countless drug lords. Is Pablo really all bad? Not always, he helped a lot of the slum people, building houses for them for free, building communities, building schools, building teams, etc., and another point, although he had many mistresses in his life, he has always loved his wife Tata, from beginning to end. For his own family, he was a good husband, a good father, a good son. For society, he is an extremely arrogant drug lord.
Pablo and his wife Tata in his youth
Pablo hung up, but the drugs exported to the US empire showed no sign of slowing down, but intensified, after all, in a special environment, driven by huge profits, a Pablo fell, and thousands of Pablo stood up, the US empire and even the global anti-drug cause is still a long way to go.
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