Pablo Escobar was one of the most violent, notorious, profitable and yet one of the most powerful organized crime bosses in history. Escobar began his criminal history in Medellin, Colombia, arrested at the age of 26 for possession of cocaine but never tried or appeared in court. The Medellin Cartel appears to be the most dangerous effulgently this gang was a ruthless, highly organized and much feared Columbian drug cartel that originated in the city of Medellin, Columbia, operated through the 1970’s and 1980’s in Bolivia Columbia, Central America, and the United States. The cartel was found and run by Ochoa Vazquez brothers Jorge Luis, Juan David and Fabia together with Pablo Escobar to become the first modern-day cocaine trafficking alliance. …show more content…
P.1996). Needless to say, by 1984, Escobar controlled over 80 percent of the Colombian drug-trade, raking in over 2.75 billion a year, therefore, is recognized as one of the wealthiest peoples in the world. On the other hand, being the ruthless and violent killer that he was, Escobar was responsible for the deaths of more than 200 judges, 100 police officers, and 107 other individuals. Consequently, by 1990 and the power the cartel had gained, in order to gain some type of control, the Colombian government offered immunity from extradition to the United States to drug traffickers if they turned themselves in (Levinthal, 2012). By 1991, Pablo Escobar, age 41 turned himself in with the agreement that he would be placed in a specially built prison. Unfortunately, the prison was not secure enough to hold Escobar. He escaped to hide, and live here and there, near and far and remained on the run for a
Pyramids originated from the Egyptians. They expressed a worldwide view of the Egyptians. First of all, they were symbols of the pharaoh's authority and divine status. It reflects hierarchical status. In the Egyptian society there were slaves, the commoners, the pharaohs. If you were to put them in order the top of the pyramid would the pharaohs below them the commoners, then slaves and so forth. The most important one would be on the top which is the pharaohs. Also it was a testimony of the pharaoh's ability to marshal Egypt's resources. They were also used for tombs. Their worldview was very religious too, because the pyramids were a symbol of a gateway of the next life. This is seen as inside the pyramids the Egyptians buried
Introduction. During 1980s until 1996, Colombia lived the most dangerous and violence conflicts between the paramilitaries (FARCS), and the drug cartels by Pablo Escobar.
Some may say that Pablo Escobar helped his country Columbia greatly by spreading his illegitimate wealth across Columbia but the amount of terror and killing he spread across the western hemisphere far outweighed the money he put into the less fortunate communities. December 1, 1949, Rionegro, Colombia, Escobar was born. His family was extremely poor, for example one time he and his brother Roberto were sent home from school because they were unable to buy shoes. From an early age, Escobar had possessed a unique drive and ambition to raise himself up from his humble beginnings. As a boy, he told his friends and family that when he grew up, he wanted to become president of Colombia. Yet as he grew older he realized his path to wealth and legitimacy
In the professional leagues or sporting activities, sportsmen get pay for their efforts and talents in entertaining the public. Sports acts as a source of income to the participants in the league. It is a different scenario when it comes to NCAA management league. Students do not obtain pay for their services, efforts, talents, and entertainment show to the public. College athletes display their talents to the entire public who enjoy watching them perform. Some scholars argue that students should obtain pay for their efforts and talents while others maintain that college athletes should be contented with what they have as participants. College athletes' payment issue drags the development of the game within the association (NCAA). The debate of whether college athletes should obtain payment for their services needs to rest by extensive solution. The perfect way to solve the issue at hand involves additional payment for the services of the college athletes. This would supplement the scholarships and accommodation fees university and college athletes enjoy currently. College athletes are not gaining payment for participation in the NCAA league because of benefits they acquire from colleges, the act would add to issues in the budget that colleges would not be able to afford. College athletes should obtain payment for their talents and efforts because everyone in the sporting career enjoys payment and wages, to satisfy their needs as human
Around the time of 1978, a business was developing that would soon be wealthy enough to profit up to 60 million a month (Kelley). Despite its wealth, the Medellin Cartel was not exactly a legal enterprise. It devoted infinite amounts of time, money, and manpower to produce, sell, and distribute drugs throughout vast areas. At the head was Pablo Escobar, who was admired by many inside and outside of the cartel. Countless people were involved in his business, both voluntarily and involuntarily (Kelley). While countless people looked up to him as a hero, Pablo Escobar took vicious measures while running his business, due to his thirst for power and wealth; however, he did not receive a satisfying punishment for the crimes he committed.
Pablo Escobar was one of the biggest drug lords to ever live. At one point in his career Escobar was smuggling 15 tons of cocaine into the U.S each day. He was a pioneer of the drug world making the first smuggling paths from Columbia to the United States. He advanced the drug world in ways never seen before.
He spends a lot of fortune on financing houses for the poor, building football fields in the poor areas, giving money to the poor and other charities. This earned him the nickname The Robinhood of Medellin. The people of Medellin was very loyal to him and when the government went after Pablo Escobar they did not even alert the local law enforcement because the government was scared that they might tip Pablo Escobar because most of the local law enforcement was on his payroll. When he ran for public office he brought the spotlight to his wealth and people began to research his income. He was publicly denounced by Justice Minister of Columbia Rodrigo Lara Bonilla because of Pablo work in cocaine trafficking. When all this was taking place and the public found the truth about him the United States also withdrew his visa. After his underworld empire was exposed Pablo ordered the assassination Justice Minister Lara. He also was alleged of funding the M-19 insurgent which attacked the palace of justice in central Bogota, so they can destroy the evidence that the government of Columbia has of The medellin cartel. Pablo Escobar even had an American CIA contract pilot name Barry seal working for him as a pilot smuggling drugs. when he was caught by The D.E.A he was forced to be an informant as a plea deal. He took pictures of Nicaraguan soldiers loading cocaine onto a plane for Pablo Escobar. he was shot dead in
During the 1970’s through the late 1990’s Colombia was widely known as the birth place for the cocaine drug traffickers. Colombia has produced the two most famous drug traffickers that have produced lots of cocaine and tons of money. Those drug traffickers were Griselda Blanco and Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria and his Medellin Cartel. Pablo Escobar and his cartel, The Medellin Cartel did most destruction to the country of Colombia. But poverty in Colombia has been reduced due to Pablo Escobar and his Medellin Cartel. Since the beginning of La Viuda and Escobar, Colombia has grown as a country with its citizen to do better and prevent these drug lords to do damage once more. Griselda Blanco was the first women drug lord that made the country of Colombia lots of chaos.
Hutt published this work on 2015 the same and is important for my topic because it describes the kind of person Escobar was. He was a good but an evil man as well. This work of writing is credible in my opinion because it is from two years ago and the information published seems accurate as it is the similar to other information found in different articles. David Hutt is a journalist who focuses on political aspects. Throughout this article, he focuses on the political career of Pablo Escobar which adds more
During the early 1990’s Colombia being one of the biggest exporters of narcotics in history, led by Pablo Escobar, who had a wide range of organized crime affiliations throughout Latin America. Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord and he smuggled narcotics all the way to South Florida as when authorities tried to capture him. One of Pablo Escobar’s most important alliances was that of the Mexican-based traffickers. Escobar knew that this was an important trade route because of its geography and how it would be easier to smuggle the narcotics into the United States. This allowed a smuggling partnership between both countries and Mexico was to eventually lead their own drug based trafficking system with the help of Pablo Escobar. From the distributed drugs, cartels would take a certain amount of profit, and would use that money to bribe Mexican officials. By bribing Mexican officials it was insured that if smugglers were to be arrested they would either be let go, the case would be dropped or taking action against a rival smuggling group by giving away information about the rival’s plan to carry
The U.S decided to work with the Colombian government to establish an extradition treaty between the countries in 1979 (United States Congress ). This treaty would allow the U.S to extradite the cartel traffickers for a trial in the U.S. This caused Pablo to attack the government and this ultimately caused the Medellin cartel’s downfall. In the early 1990’s the cartel’s leaders were apprehended and the leader Pablo Escobar was killed in a firefight after having to run for his life. (PBS2).
Let’s start from the beginning in the story about “El Pablo Escobar”, who became the king of coke. First of all, Pablo Escobar was from Colombia, Antioquia and born in 1949. Before his time as a drug lord and a murderous criminal, who organized one of the biggest drug trades in the world. He was a boy like any other regular child, who would spend his time cutting people grass to make money. Going camping on the weekends with the boy scouts, learning how to live in the wild. But he was raised up in the harsh time of economy, where people protested, and fought with one another. Escobar seen many deaths growing up, people beating each other up, protesting for better future for Colombia, and riots where hundreds of people who would fight. Where it all began to create a person like
With his political aspirations no longer a possibility and the United States pushing for Colombia to extradite him, Pablo unleashed terror on those who he considered to be his enemies. Escobar fought hard for a non-extradition clause and amnesty for those involved in trafficking if they gave up their trade (U.S. News & World Report, 1991). Unfortunately, the violence would result in the deaths of thousands including politicians, journalists, judges, police officers and ordinary citizens. In 1989, he was implicated in the bombing of a Columbian plane that killed more than 100 people and led to the public and drug traffickers turning against him (Levinthal, 2012). In June of 1991, Pablo Escobar surrendered to the Columbia government with the threat of extradition lifted and was allowed to spend his prison term in a luxury prison which he was permitted to build for himself (Maclean’s, 1992). Escobar’s imprisonment saw the deterioration of the Medellin Cartel whose offices were raided and leaders were killed by police officers. While authorities were attempting to move Pablo to a secure facility, Pablo escaped and a 16 month manhunt began. In December 1993, authorities finally caught up with Escobar in Medellin, where he and his bodyguard were shot and killed as they tried to
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1, 1949- December 2, 1993 he was known as Colombia drug lord and cocaine traffic. He also was known in the 1983 as the King of cocaine. He also was the wealthiest criminal in the history with an estimated net-worth of $ 30 billion by the early 1990s. Pablo Escobar stared his criminal carrier when he was a teenager, being a teenager in the street of Medellin without the love of his family he started to commit server crime like stealing, gravestone, allegedly. Pablo also when to school for a short time he attempt to University of Antioquia. He also was involved in many crimes selling contraband cigarette, selling fake lottery ticket and stealing cars. He was committed a lot
How ever law enforcement was closing in on Escobar. The U.S. want him to be extradited to the U.S. but Escobar surrendered to the Colombian’s in exchange for a promise not to be extradited to the U.S. He was able to design his own luxurious prison and continued to run his business behind the walls. Fifty new charges were brought against Pablo, including political assassination and mass murder. Escobar confessed to just one shipment of cocaine to Europe. When two men came and told Pablo he was being transferred to a military prison, Pablo would have none of this, and he took out hidden weapons, taking the two men hostage. After a night of negotiations 400 army commandos stormed the jail, but Escobar and his brother, along with many others, were gone. After 16 months on the run, he was finally hunted down by Columbian police with the aid of U.S. technology that recognized Escobar’s voice on a cell phone. On December 2, 1993 Pablo Escobar was killed trying to run away on a roof top in one of his safe houses in Columbia.