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Pages: 17
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, known in the entire world as Pablo Escobar or “The King of Cocaine”, has gone down in history as the wealthiest criminal ever. In the early 90’s his net worth was estimated to about $30 billion. By purchasing enormous amounts of coca paste from Bolivia and Peru, processing them in Colombia, and selling them to the United States, Escobar earned astronomical amounts of money, which he used to build an unprecedented criminal empire. After an all out war, he was eventually arrested and went to prison, escaped and was killed in 1993, af-ter a manhunt that lasted 16 months.Born on December 1st, 1949, Pablo grew up in the Southern Central part of Columbia. He was born in Rionegro, a village just outside of Medellin. His childhood years were spent in Medellin, which would later become the name of his infamous and very powerful drug cartel. Medellin was a suburb of ...
