The Crimes
Criminal career of Pablo Escobar
Notable because: Most famous of all Cocaine dealers, who made incredible wealth and became notorious for his killing ways. Escobar gained world infamy as a Colombian drug lord. Escobar became so wealthy from the drug trade that in 1989 Forbes magazine listed him as the seventh richest man in the world. He is considered to be the […]
The Crimes
The extent of Escobar’s crimes will never be fully known or verified. However, vast numbers of people were killed on his command. His particular way of handling any authorities questioning his actions was to bribe them or to kill them, or ‘plata o plomo’, Colombian slang for ‘money or bullets’. Escobar was believed to have […]