I believe that many students have already admired Netflix's two seasons of the divine drama "Narcos Drug Lord", and they must also be impressed by the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar played by Wagner Mara.
The protagonist of today's article comes from the inspiration of the series, but I want to talk more about the real-life Pablo, who was once rated by Fortune magazine as one of the seven richest people in the world, and the most crazy and arrogant drug lord ever.
The personal feeling of Pablo's description in the series is still too literary and lyrical, and he does not depict his brilliant life in place, of course, because of the acting skills of the male protagonist Wagner, this role is absolutely deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. But because of his protagonist's setting, and perhaps because of a limited budget, some of the classic passages of Pablo's legendary life have not been copied.
Pablo was born in a particularly special year for China , in 1949 , a child who grew up on the streets of Medellín , who had a rough life , initially stealing and reselling tombstones , and by the time he was a teenager , he became a professional killer. During his adolescence, his idol was Al Capone, the mafia leader of the New York mob, and after gaining power, Pablo even bought the famous bulletproof car that Capone had ridden in that year
Pablo was magical because he was the first drug lord to turn cocaine production into a large-scale export business, his wealth could not be accurately counted, only that he was one of the richest people in the world at the time, some people estimated that he had more than 3 billion US dollars in personal wealth, Pablo is most praised for his birth in Medellín, giving back to Medellín, born into poverty, relief poverty, his huge fortune provided employment for more than 300,000 people, built churches, hospitals and houses for the poor, and was known as "Robin Hood of Latin America." ", become the true "King of Cocaine"!
At its peak, Pablo's private army reached 40,000 people, all advanced weapons, in order to provoke the Colombian government and army, his special plane called "Skylark", was one of his booty, this gunship originally belonged to the Colombian Navy, equipped with the most advanced multi-barrel rocket launcher and sidewinder missiles of the time, known as "air tanks". The origin of this aircraft is also a legend, in order to capture this aircraft, he dispatched three of his own fighters, forced the "Lark" to his own airport and took it for himself.
Escobar is the most arrogant drug lord ever. The police officers who arrested him were shot within 3 days; the judge who tried him, after his wife was gang-raped, the semen-stained bra and panties were sent to the judge's office; the Colombian attorney general, who wanted him, in turn, was rewarded with a reward of $100 million and finally died on the street. In 1987, his brother Ochoa was arrested, and the president of colombia's supreme court in charge of the trial resigned, and the minister of justice had to cancel the arrest warrant.
In the eyes of the United States and the rest of the world, Pablo is a heinous drug lord, murderer, and anti-human, but in the eyes of colombian locals, Escobar is a big hero. "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!" In an interview with the media, Escobar said that his drugs are seen as a powerful weapon against the West led by the United States, both to export harm and wealth, and there is really no reason for the poor Colombian people not to regard him as a hero.
Because of this, the US government has always regarded Escobar as a thorn in its eye and has always wanted to pull out this "cancer" in South America. In March 1984, under the command of U.S. military advisers, 5,000 Colombian troops flew on Hercules transport planes to pound the Medellín Group's home. With air support from dozens of American-made F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters, 150 drug dealers were killed and thousands were taken prisoner. However, Escobar's counterattack was also unusually sharp. Just one month later, Colombia's drug commander-in-chief, Justice Minister Lara, was shot dead. In May, more than 50 drug traffickers stormed the Colombian Ministry of Justice building in an attempt to kidnap senior officials from the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Prosecutor's Office and the Narcotics Police Department, which were in session. More than 400 military and police officers struggled to resist, and the two sides once formed a stalemate. Subsequently, 300 drug dealers carrying surface-to-surface missiles came to reinforcements. The fighting continued into the middle of the night, until the Colombian Defence Forces arrived late, and the drug traffickers left with 5 judges and 1 police chief, leaving behind the bodies of 34 police officers and 11 high-ranking judges.
In 1989, NASA used the most advanced "KH-9" reconnaissance satellite and thermal imaging camera to determine the exact location of the Medellín Group, and the Colombian government launched the largest anti-drug operation ever: 200 special forces members trained by the United States directly parachuted into the Tiger's Den, thousands of officers and men of the elite 14th Brigade of the Wehrmacht closed on the left and right sides, cutting off the land and sea escape routes, and finally a bomber group of 50 F-16 fighters formed a bomber group to carry out a devastating bombing of the Medellín base. Razed until. However, Escobar and his men miraculously escaped and continued to entangle with government forces.
In 1991, the Colombian government accepted Escobar's three terms of security: legalization of his personal property; punishment of drug dealers who violated the human rights of police officers and their families; and the construction of a special prison guarded by regular forces to ensure the safety of their lives.
In June 1991, he surrendered four hours after the Colombian government announced the banning of extradition regulations. He built himself a luxurious prison with private suites, offices and Jacuzzis, and when he was about to be transferred to a heavily guarded prison, Escobar escaped in full view, ending the first season of the series.
At the end of the second season of the series, on December 2, 1993, the day after his 44th birthday, after losing almost all of his cronies, Pablo Escobar's bloody reign finally came to an end, he was killed on the spot in a rain of bullets, and the legend of a generation of tyrants ended!
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