Pablo Escobar Born into a modest middle class family‚ a father who was a farmer and a mother who was an elementary school teacher‚ Pablo was the third born of nine children. Pablo strived and was driven to succeed by all costs. As a young child Pablo hoped to one day become President of Columbia. However‚ Pablo fell in with the wrong crowd where his drive and determination to achieve great success was exploited and turned into money driven criminal acts. Soon the Pablo Escobar of humble beginnings
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The Life of the Notorious Pablo Escobar Pablo Escobar‚ the notorious drug lord‚ had a very diverse life. From the early days of his childhood Pablo had always been an ambitious child. His full name is Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria. He was born on December 1‚ 1949 in Rionegro‚ Antioquia‚ Colombia (“Pablo”). His mother‚ Hermilda de los Dolores Gaviria Berrío‚ was a teacher and his father‚ Abel de Jesus Escobar Echeverri‚ was a farmer. At a young age Pablo’s father left his mother alone with seven
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year. Pablo Escobar was born into humble beginnings. His parents were a school teacher and a peasant. As a teen he stole tombstones from gravesites and sold them to smugglers from Panama. Pablo always hustled since he was a young child. Still‚ money was always very limited in the Escobar household however Pablo began to see an alternative to his hopeless financial destiny. Pablo found a way to escape the generational curse of poverty that so many are born into. He began to sell cocaine. Pablo would
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PABLO ESCOBAR “Power like-love is a double edge sword.” With that sword‚ Pablo Escobar‚ Colombia’s powerful drug capo‚ held tight to. On one edge‚ Pablo Escobar was a man who was infatuated with power‚ and used it to his advantage to corrupt Colombia’s political force for his own good. Because of his power status‚ Escobar was feared by many people because of what he can have done to them. And on the other edge‚ Pablo Escobar used his power to help those who were less fortunate‚ and he would be
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Pablo Escobar – A Criminal with a Conscience Profiles in Crime “Pablo was mourned by thousands. Crowds rioted as his casket was carried into the streets of his home city of Medellin” (Bowden‚ p15). This funeral does not sound as that of a notorious thug‚ but that of a vigilantly. Pablo Escobar committed many crimes ranging from petty theft‚ to terrorism‚ but mainly he was a drug king pin responsible for flooding North America with cocaine in the 1980’s. So the question is why
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Pablo Escobar is well known throughout the world as one of their greatest outlaws. He grew from obscurity to be the leading cocaine distributor in the world. He led an empire of terror‚ drugs‚ money‚ and violence. He was a gangster and outlaw in the ranks of icons such as Al Capone‚ Bonnie and Clyde‚ and John Gotti. He can only be understood by looking at the man’s early life‚ his rise to ultimate power‚ and the absolute necessity of ending his reign of terror by any means. Pablo Escobar was born
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Osman Delgado 09/22/2014 Essay #1 (Pablo Escobar) Pablo Escobar was known as one of the richest men in the 20th century because of his involvement in the selling of drugs from Colombia to North America and Europe. In Medellin‚ he was known amongst the poor people as “Robin Rood”. Even though Pablo Escobar obtained his fortune through an illegal way‚ he never left the poor behind and this is why he was so loved. I believe that what he did by helping the poor was good during the first time of his
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person get any credit for having good intentions? Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria‚ a man of many secrets and even more sins‚ is remembered for some as a loving father‚ husband‚ friend‚ neighbor‚ boss‚
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Pablo Escobar is maybe one of the biggest players in organized crime ever. Pablo Escobar’s savage mind set is what set him different from other drug traffickers in Colombia. If he caught you stealing from him‚ he would have your hands caught off. Because of so many people after him‚ he decided to join forces with other gangs and big dogs in the drug trade. This was the formation of the Medellin Cartel. The cartel had great success. They had cocaine running through Colombia‚ Bolivia‚ Peru‚ Honduras
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Pablo Emilio Escobar was a notorious drug lord in Colombia and he was the Chief of the most powerful criminal organization to ever exist. During his power‚ in the 1980s‚ he controlled a vast amount of drug traffic and ordered thousands of murders all over the globe. His affairs in drug trafficking brought him billion of dollars. He had many mansions‚ private jets‚ his own zoo and a whole army of soldiers. Pablo Escobar was born on December 1‚ 1941 in a low class family in the Medellin suburb of
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