Pablo Escobar Research Paper

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Pablo Escobar was on of the most famous drug lords to ever walk the planet. At an estimated 30 billion, Escobar was also the richest criminal. On December 1st, 1949, the king of cocaine was born in Rio Negro Colombia. He started his life of crime in his early teenage years and after years of progressing, he ended up joining the notorious Medellin cartel in Colombia. By the early 1970's, he started smuggling huge amounts of cocaine to Mexico, Bahamas, the United States, and many other countries.

To begin with, Pablo Escobar was the biggest drug lord in Colombia, if not the world. Escobar put all of the money he collected when he was a teen into a large amount of cocaine, joining forces with his brother Roberto and friend/smuggler Alvaro Pricto.

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