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Pablo Escobar

(Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria; Rionegro, Antioch, 1949 - Medellin, 1993) Colombian Drug Smuggler was one of the founders of the so-called Medellin Cartel. The son of a farm manager and a rural teacher. It started in small trades, washing cars or helping in the markets, was also keeper of cows and then move on to bully the pay and car thief.

His criminal career began with the purchase of stolen objects and smuggling on a smaller scale, until they are introduced into the trafficking of marijuana, and finally in cocaine. In 1976 he was arrested with 19 kilos of cocaine, but his case was dismissed.


Pablo Escobar

By this time Escobar began his political career. He raised disinherited for a neighborhood in Medellin, called Medellin without Slums or neighborhood Pablo Escobar, a ghetto 780 family houses, built with the people in need to get the votes to become first deputy mayor of the municipality of Medellin and then as a candidate of the Liberal Renewal Movement, alternate deputy of Congress in 1982.

He was denounced for drug trafficking, resulting in its failure in politics, and has sought to promote a series of campaigns and civic welfare with the help of priests Elijah Loperas Cardenas and Hernan Cuartas.

Pablo Escobar was one of the founders of the Medellin cartel-called birth MAS (Death to the hijackers) - whose origin was the kidnapping of Martha Nieves Ochoa. Since 1983, when the Anti-Drug Department of the United States, connected with the drug-trafficking organizations, Escobar was plunged into hiding and managed to get out of a siege newspaper secret Colombian authorities and international agencies such as Interpol and the DEA.

In addition to drug trafficking on a large scale, it weighed on charges as serious as murder of the editor of the newspaper El Espectador, Guillermo Cano, the Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, in 1984, the Liberal Party leader and presidential candidate Colombia, Luis Carlos Galan, 1989, and the kidnapping of eight journalists, one of whom died. It also has responsibility for the assassination of presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, leader of the M-19, and Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, leader of the Patriotic Union. Likewise, he attributed the killing of Navy Montoya, sister of the secretary's residence during the administration of Virgilio Barco, in January 1991.

He was also accused of having organized a vast illegal industry, indirectly responsible for much of the twenty-five thousand crimes being committed every year in Colombia. The Colombian police, for whom Escobar is responsible for virtually everything that happened in the country, linked to this drug trafficker with the bombing of the building DAS, which killed about one hundred people. He was also identified as responsible for having paid to ETA terrorists to put a bomb he detonated an Avianca plane in which 107 people lost their lives.

For its part, the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) blamed Escobar for having introduced several tons of cocaine into the United States, where inducer of the death of a police anti-narcotics and of having organized the Medellin cartel, which attach great Most of the terrorist acts that occurred in the late eighties and early nineties in Colombia.

In 1991 reached an agreement with the Colombian Government to surrender and thus avoid extradition to the US The June 19, 1991 was held in Envigado, in the form number three, in a cell luxury guarded by at least three hundred troops of the Colombian army.

After staying 13 months in prison, fled on July 22, 1992. After the situation was complicated for him, especially after the emergence of the group of Pepes (Persecuted by Pablo Escobar), which began a campaign of attacks on property, relatives, lawyers and associates of the offender. In this wave of attacks dropped several of his trusted men and the family began a Escobar in the diaspora who sought a nation that would like to receive them as political refugees.

On December 2, 1993, one day after his 44 birthday, was gunned down by 15 cops Block Search on the roof of his house in the neighborhood of America, Medellin, after being found to make a few calls to his family . He was married to Maria Victoria Henao, with whom he had two sons: Juan Pablo and Manuela.