Pablo Escobar Essay Impact On Cologera

Colombia, a beautiful country where I was raised. I get to see the beauty and life that many others didn’t get to see in the 80s and 90s because of one man; Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria. I’ve taken an interest on research Escobar, because after almost twenty-three years of being dead, his name is still being connected to Colombia; a country that traffics cocaine. Drugs and violence from Colombia may be what people from the outside see without visiting the country or at least learning about it and I want to show people that it wasn’t a whole country that made these actions but one man with a lot of power Pablo Escobar; the leader of one of the biggest drug cartels, however many people in the City of Medellin see Escobar as a hero to them. Doing this research, I hope to discover Who was really Pablo Escobar and why did certain people see him as a hero, while others saw him as a drug lord killer and how did his actions really affect Colombia? Pablo Escobar was a …show more content…
Escobar was a bad man, he began his criminal career during high school, Escobar and his cousin figured out how to forge the signatures on the diplomas and started selling them to other students and from there, there was no turning back. Escobar got arrested for shooting someone in the foot and shortly after that he made his first murder at a young age; according to Juan Pablo Escobar (2016) “One night he trailed Sanin to a building in Medellin, and when the man entered the garage, my father shot and killed him. That was probably the first motorcycle drive-by in Medellin history” (pg. 45). Little did he know that his first killing would make history just like the rest of his life. Working for the Godfather taught Escobar many of his skills he used when he became the drug lord of