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We Asians are familiar with the "heroin king" Kun Sha, is a Burmese, with drugs, money in one hand, and gun in the other, dominating the entire Golden Triangle, once making the local government helpless, but he and the South American drug king Pablo, a little witch.
Pablo came from a poor background, but saved $30 billion from drug trafficking. From humble birth to thief, to king of cocaine, and finally to politics, for better or worse, he is like a legend.
From peasant sons to drug lords
Born in 1949 in a small town in Colombia, Pablo's father was a farmer and his mother was an ordinary woman, who would have learned to herd cattle and sheep and live a peaceful life as an ordinary farmer, but his father was addicted to gambling and lost all his family property, so that all this was broken.
The father's whereabouts in order to avoid the debt are unknown, and the mother alone takes on all the responsibilities of the family. Because of his heartache, his mother also wanted to make money, Pablo embarked on the road of theft. He made his own "universal car key", easily, and became a well-known local car thief with his talent.
It was only a small step in his life, and in the 1970s and 1980s, he became exposed to the drug smuggling trade. After all, a person like him should be irresistible to the temptation of money.
With Colombia's inherent drug production advantage: 7,500 tons to 9,000 tons of cannabis per year, the world's largest in quantity and quality, Pablo quickly grew.
Pablo runs his own factory, dredges his own transportation routes, uses his own factory to process drugs, uses his own planes and ships for transportation, and exports 80% of the cocaine imported from the United States every year.
Although it sounds simple, it is how he transformed from an ordinary and even somewhat humble farm boy to a world-famous drug lord.
Arrogant drug lords, challenging the country
It seems that Pablo is a somewhat complicated person, it is difficult to see clearly, for the US government he is a drug lord, endangering social stability, but for his hometown masses, he is also a hero.
He built a new playground, school, football team for his hometown, and often participated in mass activities, winning a very good image for himself in the hearts of the grassroots masses.
On this point, I suspect that he had planned it long ago, and that the ambitions of such a man must have laid the foundation for his political career long ago.
Pablo's photographer once said: "He was born in a Colombian society where many things were illegal but generally accepted, and he was convinced that trade would eventually become legal." Pablo did have a lot of illegal means, but he seems to be fighting against the injustice of fate to him, or perhaps because of this idea, he embarked on a career path.
"For the people, he did what many countries could not do", which was the slogan of his entry into his career, and in 1982 he was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party.
His lover once said openly: "He has full ambition, loves himself more than the people are enthusiastic about him, but he is still the only rich man in Colombia who is generous to the people, knowing that the rich people of the whole country will not give charity to the poor, even a small piece of bread." "Going from a drug lord to an official was almost impossible for us, but in that particular social environment at the time, it was possible to do it.
It was this remark that exposed the selfishness of the class at that time, and Pablo's ascension to the throne undoubtedly affected the interests of the rich who were unwilling to give alms, so Pablo actually experienced many obstacles in his political path.
But who is he? He's a big drug lord. He was so arrogant that when someone opposed him, he took his life directly.
In 1984, the new minister of justice publicly attacked Pablo's inclusion in parliament as a "disgrace to Colombia," and the minister's sudden death seemed to be inseparable from him. At the same time, it was found that he had 25,000 drug traffickers under his command, and several thousand in his own private army.
At that time, Pablo and the political circles were in a state of confrontation, which can be called a single person challenging a country. So arrogant and bold, ordinary people may not be able to reach it, but who is he? He is a man who has come up from the darkest place at the bottom, he is not afraid of hardship, he just wants to sit on a high position.
Dust returns to dust
After all kinds of negotiations, Pablo was finally surrendered. The local government also built a luxurious prison for him to live in, which was said to be not a prison at all, but a fortress that belonged to Pablo alone.
Pablo was very comfortable in this prison, and even as a super football fan, he built a football field in this prison for his own enjoyment.
If it were me, living in such a luxurious place with no worries, I might have enjoyed being a rich and idle person, but Pablo had planned to escape from prison more than once.
It is said that he disguised himself as a village woman, escaped from the prison, hid in the jungle for a year, but because of a phone call with his son, he revealed his whereabouts, and finally in the army's gunfire and bullets, he gave himself a shot and personally ended his life.
This is the life of a generation of drug lords, starting from blandness to blandness. He spent his life pursuing money ambitions and positions, and his life was exciting, both good and bad. In real life, we pursue the same as him, but in the last life, we are mediocre, we have not gained anything, not even the ups and downs he has experienced in life.
Some people say that in this life, I have read many books, walked many roads, and may not live a good life, the drug dealer Pablo embarked on this road because his original family is too difficult, and we have a good education in this life, a stable social environment and care for the people around us, what reason do we have not to try to live our own life?
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Reference: The Colombian Incarnation The Legendary Life of Pablo Escobar – World of Cinema