He and his band of sicarios would torture, too. The stats in Medellin were just unbelievable, the amount of people that were getting killed."Įscobar - one of the earliest of what are now known as "narcoterrorists" - would not only kill. They'd shoot you, they'd take off, in and out of traffic. "You'd have two guys on a motorcycle, the guy in the back. "On a weekend, there'd be 400 people getting killed. In the early 1990s, Medellin was known as the most violent city in the world, with 380 homicides per 100,000 people every year. One of Escobar's main hitmen was Jhon Jairo Velásquez, known as "Popeye." He claims to have personally killed 300 people and ordered (on Escobar's behalf) the murders of 3,000 others. He gave me money, my mom now has shelter, has food, has a little house.' He said, 'I'll be dead by the time I'm 23 years old, but I will die and kill for Pablo Escobar. "One of them, when I interviewed him," Peña says, "he was 15 years old, and he said, 'I love Pablo Escobar, I will die for him and I will kill for him. Murphy and his partner, Javier Peña, who also is portrayed in the Netflix series, often tangled with the people who would do Escobar's bidding. Keenly aware of his public persona, he gave millions away, too, building housing and soccer fields in poor areas of Medellin.īut Escobar grew and maintained that wealth through the 1980s and early '90s, it should be remembered, by being a ruthless, cold-blooded killer.
PABLO ESCOBAR THE DRUG LORD PROFESSIONAL
He splurged on cars, on boats, on a fleet of airplanes, on at least one professional soccer team, and on dozens of houses throughout the country. He hit the Forbes list of richest people in the world seven years running, from 1987 (when he was estimated to be worth $3 billion) through 1993.Įscobar spent his money on a personal zoo (complete with hippos that still run wild) at a lavish estate in northwest Colombia, Hacienda Nápoles. His fortune soon soared into the billions.
The Medellin cartel made so much money that it literally had to stuff cash in bags - billions of U.S. At its height, the cartel pulled in an estimated $420 million - million - a week, 80 percent of the cocaine business worldwide. By his late 20s, Escobar had founded and assumed sole control of the Medellin cartel, maybe the most successful criminal operation ever. It wasn't until Escobar hit his 20s that he was introduced to big-time crime taking coca, grown mostly in Peru and Bolivia, synthesising it into cocaine, and shipping it to sell in the United States. As a youngster, he and his family moved to a suburb of Medellin, and by the time he was in his teens, he was deep into the criminal world, stealing cars and reselling gravestones he pilfered from local cemeteries. Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born in Rionegro, Colombia, in 1949.
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