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📖 Who Was Pablo Escobar?

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord born on December 1, 1949 in Rionegro, Colombia, and raised in the Medellín area. He became one of the most notorious criminals in modern history, known for building one of the largest and most violent drug empires in the world. �

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🧒 Early Life

Escobar was born to a farmer father and a schoolteacher mother and grew up poor. �

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As a young man he joined petty crime — selling fake diplomas, stealing cars and tombstones — before moving into smuggling and eventually drug trafficking. �

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💼 Rise of the Medellín Cartel

In the 1970s, Escobar helped found the Medellín cartel, which focused on producing and smuggling cocaine into the United States and other countries. �

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By the 1980s, his cartel reportedly controlled more than 80 % of the world’s cocaine trade, making him...