Medellín

Pablo Escobar is well known throughout the world as one of their greatest outlaws. He grew from obscurity to be the leading cocaine distributor in the world. He led an empire of terror, drugs, money, and violence. He was a gangster and outlaw in the ranks of icons such as Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, and John Gotti. He can only be understood by looking at the man’s early life, his rise to ultimate power, and the absolute necessity of ending his reign of terror by any means. Pablo Escobar was born in 1949. His father was a peasant farmer and his mother was a school teacher. Pablo grew up in Envigado. Envigado was a suburb of the second largest city in Colombia, Medellin. Escobar’s childhood was in a very violent atmosphere. It was a rather brutal time in the consistently violent Colombian history. was growing up in a violent time in Colombia's violent history (Godfather). The period in which Escobar grew up in is known as “La Violencia”(meaning “the violence”) in Colombian History. At this time Colombia was involved in a political feud between the Liberals and Conservatives. Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was a leader of the Liberal group. He was assassinated on April 9, 1948. This act sparked riots, vandalism, and an overall state of panic. Colombian was thrown in to an unceasing state of rebellion and insurrection (Violencia). In Escobar’s teenage years he was slowly getting into crime. He dropped out of school three months before graduation. He was soon drifting towards small…

When there was allot of violence going on in Colombia specially medellin. When he was young he would steal headstones from the cemeteries and resell them and even selling protection on cars he stealed and cars he didn't. He would also send other people to kidnap individuals that did not owed him money. Pablo also started by being a member of the medellin cartel with low antioquia crime bosses. From their it was much more easier for him to take control over the cocaine that was shipped in the…

During Escobar’s reign, the Medellin Cartel took in above $70 million per day. This added up to above $22 billion a year. The Medellin Cartel found a systematic and efficient way to bring in this money. They did so by smuggling 15 tons of cocaine a day into the United States. The cartel had so much money, that it was difficult to keep track of every single dollar. This lead to 10% of the cash being disregarded because rats would find ways to sneak into places where the money was held, and would…

Have you ever heard the name Pablo Escobar, and wondered who he was? Pablo Escobar was a drug trafficker that was the main leader of the Medellín cartel. The Medellín cartel when at the height of its power was smuggling fifteen tons of cocaine a day, which was worth more than half a billion dollars. Pablo Escobar is responsible for making cocaine the global drug of choice. He did this by transporting cocaine by the ton from Colombia to larger markets in both America and Europe. (Watson and…

By supplying to all the countries, he made around 60 million a day. He was named 7th richest man in the world by Forbes magazine in 1989. With all the money he made, he put it towards his business, his hometown, and his family. Pablo paid for and bought ridiculously expensive items such as “La Catedral” which was a luxurious prison he built himself instead of going to the United States jail. He had negotiated with the police using his manipulative ways and got exactly what he wanted. Pablo once…

Compile a one or two page summary of your meeting that includes: Identify the person (name, title, company, etc) & their qualifications / experience Anolber Escalante is a 47 years old BS in Sales Management and entrepreneur who has been working in diverse industries throughout his career. He started his career 28 years ago when he founded Corporacion Gigabyte, his first technology business in his home country Venezuela, which was challenging in the beginning because of his young age and…

I started liking his music when i first heard a song from chalino called “nieves de enero”. Rosalino "Chalino" Sanchez was a Mexican singer and writer perhaps best known for his narcocorrido recordings. On May 16, 1992, he was murdered in Culiacán. Born in August 30, 1960 in Badiraguato Mexico, and raised in a poor family on a ranch called Las Flecha, Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico. His father was Santos Sánchez and his mother Sannorina Felix. He had seven siblings: Armando, Lázaro, Régulo, Lucas,…

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. …

But with his surrender came a few conditions, first he was to not be extradited to the US he was to be allowed to build his own luxurious prison at the top of a mountain that the authorities could not come within a certain distance of as long as Pablo was inside. In June 1992 Escobar escaped when the authorities had attempted to move his to a more conditional prison facility. With his escape came a 16-month man hunt for the drug lord. As Pablo was in prison and on the run for those short 16…

Some may call him the Colombian Robin Hood. Others call him El zar de cocaina (The tzar of cocaine). Either way, Pablo Escobar was a wealthy drug lord who affected Colombia in both positive and negative ways. It is undeniable that Pablo for better or worse changed Colombia. It is up to the people to decide whether he is the Colombian Robin Hood or the world's greatest outlaw. Pablo knew what it was like to be poor, unable to buy something as necessary as shoes. This allowed him to be able…