He allowed cocaine to occupy the drug market in the United States in one fell swoop, and colombia was once synonymous with the "drug kingdom". In order to achieve his goals, he did not hesitate to pay bribes, kidnapping, assassination, etc., and obtained a huge fortune through drug trafficking, and was killed at the age of 44 for resisting arrest. He is the most notorious drug lord in Colombian history, Pablo emilio escobar gaviria. (Photo attribution: Oriental IC) "
Pablo's ability to become a "drug king" level drug lord is inseparable from Colombia's history, environment and geographical location. Coca, the raw material used to make cocaine, was a medicinal plant used by local indigenous Indians for thousands of years, but since the 1970s. The area under coca cultivation in Colombia began to expand, while drug cartels further processed and purified drugs from other countries and transported them to Europe and the United States via the Colombian border. In addition, after accumulating a lot of wealth through drug trafficking, drug cartels are often strong enough to compete with the Colombian authorities. (Photo attribution: Oriental IC) "
Born in December 1949 in Rio Negro, Colombia, Pablo was the third child in a family of seven children, a farmer father and primary school teacher. As early as a young age, he wandered the streets of the nearby city of Medellín and began his criminal career early, it is said that he first made money by selling tombstones, and then began to secretly sell cigarettes and fake lottery tickets. Later, while working as a car salesman in Medellín, he began stealing cars. By the 1970s, he had committed several kidnappings and extortions in the city of Medellín, but had been at large. (Photo attribution: Oriental IC) "
Using ransom from kidnapping and extortion, Pablo officially established his own drug kingdom in 1975. At that time, his smuggling business was getting bigger and bigger, and he was keenly aware that cocaine, which was a new drug at the time, would have a place in the drug market, so in the same year he opened the first cocaine smuggling route from Colombia to the United States, and soon earned more than 100 million pesos in revenue. By the 1980s, Medellín was in an economic crisis due to the decline of the textile industry, with unemployment reaching 80% and depression in the city and the countryside. (Photo attribution: Oriental IC) "
Faced with the paralysis of the city of Medellín, Pablo used his drug trafficking proceeds to pay bribes, in addition to buying people's hearts, but also rapidly expanded the size of his drug kingdom, and even specially established a well-equipped illegal armed force. At the same time, he has lived in the forest on the outskirts for a long time, registered nearly a hundred manors, villas, etc., and relied on special communication equipment to direct the internal operation of drug trafficking organizations. It is said that Pablo's drug trafficking organization is full of drug dealers, killers, etc., and he pays crazy bribes to the political circles while "clearing the way" with violent actions such as killings. The picture shows a Colombian official who was removed by him. (Photo attribution: Oriental IC) "
However, Pablo's "drug kingdom" is somewhat magical to Colombian society compared to other drug trafficking organizations: he has donated money to the community many times, from building houses and giving them to the public free of charge, to building hospitals, schools and even football fields, these "charitable" initiatives have made him regarded by the local people as the real "Robin Hood". In addition to drug trafficking, Pablo was eager to enter politics, becoming a member of parliament in 1982. The following year, Colombia's new Minister of Justice publicly revealed that Pablo was the leader of a drug cartel, and Pablo fled, killing him shortly afterwards. (Photo attribution: Oriental IC) "
By 1989, Pablo was seventh in the world on the Forbes Rich List, and his "drug kingdom" smuggled 80 percent of the annual cocaine smuggling to the United States at its peak, and its "business" once stretched as far as Asia. In 1991, after negotiations with Colombian authorities, he voluntarily entered a private luxury prison he had built and continued to manipulate his drug "business" in prison. Soon after, Pablo escaped prison in July 1992 for fear of being extradited to the United States for trial. (Photo attribution: Oriental IC) "
Pablo's fugitive life lasted more than a year, and after his escape from prison, the Colombian authorities were determined to "solve" him, organizing a large-scale search by the military and police on the one hand, and using other drug dealers who had conflicts of interest with Pablo's drug syndicate on the other hand, to participate in the search. In December 1993, just after celebrating his 44th birthday, Pablo broke out in a gun battle with the military police and was killed in the confusion. (Photo attribution: Oriental IC) "