Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist. He was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. His drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s. Escobar is the wealthiest criminal in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death. In 1993, Escobar was killed in his hometown by Colombian National Police, a day after his 44th birthday.
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Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist. He was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Escobar is the wealthiest criminal in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death. His drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1993, Escobar was killed in his hometown by Colombian National Police, a day after his 44th birthday. His legacy remains controversial; while many denounce the heinous nature of his crimes, he was seen as a \”Robin Hood-like\” figure for many in Colombia. His life has also served as inspiration for or has been dramatized in film, television, and in music.Escobar was the third of seven children of the farmer Abel de Jesús Dari Escobar Echeverri, with his wife Hilda de Los Dolores GavIRia Berrío, an elementary school teacher. He studied briefly at Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana, but left without graduating. In the early 1970s, he began to work for various drug smugglers, often kidnapping and holding people for ransom. In 1976, he founded the Medelli Cartel, which distributed powder cocaine, and established the first smuggling routes into the United States. In 1982, he became an alternate member of the Chamber of Representatives as part of the Liberal Alternative movement. In 1991, he surrendered to authorities, and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on a host of charges. In 1992, he escaped and went into hiding when authorities attempted to move him to a more standard holding facility, leading to a nation-wide manhunt.
He has been praised and criticized for importing hippopotamuses to Colombia, and his private estate, Hacienda Nápoles, has been transformed into a theme park. His funeral was mourned and his funeral attended by over 25,000 people, and he has been hailed as a hero by many Colombians. He is widely believed to have orchestrated the DAS Building and Avianca Flight 203 bombings in retaliation for the bombing of the Colombian airbase in 1983. He died in 1993, aged 44, and is survived by his son, Sebastián Marroquín, who claims to have a successful business practice of his father’s father’s diplomas. His son claims that his father had a successful practice of selling counterfeit high school diplomas, generally counterfeiting those awarded by the universities of Medellín and the Colombian state. He also claimed that his brother, Roberto Escobar, denies this, instead claiming that the gravestones came from cemetery owners whose clients had stopped paying for site care and that he had a brother-in-law who had a successful business practice of a similar type of business. In 1994, he became involved in many criminal activities with Oscar Benel Aguirre, running petty scams, selling contraband cigarettes, fake lottery tickets, stealing cars, and selling street scams, as well as participating in motor vehicle theft.
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