Born in 1949 to a modest family, Escobar’s ambition was never small. He famously told his family he would be president of Colombia one day. He began his criminal career stealing gravestones and cars before realizing the staggering profit potential of cocaine in the 1970s.
The Ghost of Medellín: The Dual Legacy of Pablo Escobar Thirty-three years after a final rooftop shootout in a middle-class Medellín neighborhood, the name Pablo Escobar still echoes through Colombia—not as a single story, but as two conflicting legends. pablo escobar
By the mid-1980s, his controlled 80% of the global cocaine market, earning an estimated $420 million a week . His wealth was so vast that he appeared on the Forbes billionaire list seven times. Plata o Plomo: The Reign of Terror Born in 1949 to a modest family, Escobar’s