pablo
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a colombain drug lord and leader of one of the most powerful criminal organizations ever assembled. Pablo controlled a vast empire of drugs and murders that covered the globe. He made billions of dollars, ordered that murder of hundreds if not thousands of people, and ruled over a personal empire of mansions, airplanes, a private zoo and even his own army of soldiers and hardened criminals. Pablo was born December 1, 1949 into a lower-middle class family, young Pablo grew up in the Medellin suburb of Envigado. As a little boy he was driven and ambitions, telling friends that he wanted to be president of Colombia some day . he got his first as a street criminal: according to legend , he would steel tombstones , and sandblast the names off of them, 1970’s that he found his path to wealth and power : drugs . he would buy coca paste in Bolivia . In 1975, a local Medellin drug lord named Fabio Restrepo was murdered, reportedly on the orders of Escobar himself. Ruthlessness was legendary. His rise was opposed by many honest politicians, judges and policemen, who didn’t like the growing influence of this street thug. Escobar had a way of dealing with his enemies : he called its “plata o plomo ,” literally , silver or lead. Pablo had ordered people to be hit and killed including families the exact number of honest men and women killed by is unknown, but it definitely goes well into the hundreds and perhaps into the thousands. His victims being important or high-profile didn’t protect you from Escobar if you wanted you out of the way. He ordered the assassination of presidential candidates and was even rumored to be behind the attack 1985 by the mid- 1980’s Pablo Escobar was one of the most powerful men in the world of his time and ours !!!!