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Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (January 12, 1949 - December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord who was considered by members of the government, news reporters and the general public alike to be one of the most ruthless, ambitious and powerful drug dealers Colombia ever had. He made millions, or perhaps billions, of dollars smuggling cocaine into the United States.
Escobar began his career as a car thief in the streets of Medellín, Colombia as a teenager. He started building what many have deemed as a drug empire during the 1970s.
Escobar during the 1980s became known internationally because his drug network, known as El Cartel de Medellín, is said to have controlled a large portion of the drugs that entered into Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic with cocaine base brought from Peru and Bolivia. Escobar drugs reached many other international places, mostly around the Americas, although it is said that his network reached as far as Asia.
He was also suspected of buying off government officials, judges and country presidents. He had no hesitation to kill any one who would not cooperate with him. He was the prime suspect in the killing of three presidential candidates in Colombia, including one aboard an Avianca jet in 1989. He was also suspected of being behind many terrorist bombings including the bombings of Avianca Flight 203 and a Bogota security building in 1989. Medellín was involved in a deadly drug war with Colombia's other main drug cartel, Cartel De Cali. He was suspected of ordering more than 100 murders. He was also suspected of kidnapping, raping, and murdering numerous women at his notorious parties he held at his estate.
Escobar, according to a television documentary shown in the United States, built an air strip in The Bahamas, from where he could direct delivery into the States.
While an enemy of the United States and Colombian governments he was a hero to many of the people of Medellín. A lifelong sports fan, he was credited with building Little League baseball stadiums and sponsoring little league baseball teams in the city. He would also buy gifts and distribute money to the poor. Much of the population worked as free look outs for Escobar and helped hide information from the authorities. The poor of the region also provided the recruits to staff his operations.
Escobar was jailed in a jail named La Catedral (near Medellín), his "private Prison", which he himself had built under the agreement that, after remaining jailed there for a mandatory 5 year sentence, he would be set free with a Degree in Law. But he escaped on July 22 1992, fearing extradition to the United States. It has been rumored that, while hiding, he was working out a deal with the DEA in which he would surrender, but the DEA would have to arrest members of his rival organization too, though this may be conjecture.
Escobar was killed on December 2, 1993, while trying to run away from the Colombian police, who had found him living in a middle class barrio in Medellin. Some rumors claim snipers of the U.S. Special Operations Command might have taken part in the final hunt for Escobar. Prior to his death, his family had flown to Germany and hoped to get refuge there, but they were denied such a privilege by the German government. Whether Escobar died during an actual shoot out or not has always been debated, but his body lay on the roof of a house when he died.
Escobar has become revered among the peasants to whom he provided financial support, in building schools, hospitals and a wide range of premises in the poorest parts of Colombia. Among them, he came to be called "Don Pablito."
The hunt for Escobar was documented in Mark Bowden's book, Killing Pablo, which has been made into a motion picture.
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