Pablo Escobar

By: Alexia Morales

He was born in Rionegro, Colombia in 1949

He was the seventh richest man in the world

He is known as the king of cocaine

Died december 2 , 1993

He started his criminal career in his teens

Started the cocaine trafficking early in 1975

He smuggled cocaine into the United States using plane tires.

He was responsible for the deaths of around 4,000 people.

By the mid 1980s his cartel brought in an estimated $420 million a

week
By the end of the 1980s he supplied 80% of the world's cocaine

He smuggled about 15 tons of cocaine into the U.S everyday

Once he started a fire with $2 million because his daughter was sick
He was nicknamed Robin Hood after handing out cash to the poor, building
housing for the homeless , constructing 70 community soccer fields.

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