Luz Maria Escobar's Drug Trafficking

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When Escobar started his business in smuggling cocaine his sister could recall how he did it. “ One day Pablo came in wearing a leather jacket and asked my mom to sew some pockets inside the lining because he needed to keep his money safe. They were to smuggle cocaine and also the bills with which they bought the cocaine in Peru.” Said Luz Maria Escobar, Pablo’s sister. This small act of smuggling only about five kilos of cocaine quickly expanded to the thousands. Soon, Escobar had created his own drug trafficking business. Although the money he had produced was all laundered, Escobar felt that it was necessary. “I think that if no dirty money or dollars had entered the country, Columbia would be in a serious economic crisis just like other