Pablo Escobar Drug Trafficking Essay

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The ambition to impose the interests of drug trafficking, led Pablo Escobar Gaviria to try to establish his own laws and regulations, causing serious damage to the Colombian society and the government of that time. The perfect utopia that he dreamed, became the worst dystopia for the consequences in the country.

The drug economy connected the production, marketing and finance in a network that ignores national boundaries. The clandestine nature of the drug economy difficult the analyze of their effects on societies involved in the production, manufacture, trafficking and consumption of narcotics.

The Colombian government made a huge step by battling the repression of drug trafficking through the assault to the production centers, the seizure
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Pablo Escobar did everything for his family, specially his daughter and son. Every single thing they asked for was conceived.
In the point of view of Pablo Escobar’s son, Pablo was the most amazing man on earth, he was such an innocent young child blinded by his own blood on how the outside world really was and the terrific acts of his father and family, till he grew up he realized how everything was and decided to take his own way always known as “The Prince of Cocaine”.

Sidhartra lived in a same world as Pablo Escobar’s son, his dad, The King, always covered his eyes from the outside world, making him not believe on anything just by spoiling him with the most expensive jewelry and the most beautiful women, great examples are death and sickness.

It wasn't until he grew that realized on his own how his father managed and lied all those years just for “his good” without knowing the big ol’ damage he was

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