The Legacy Of Pablo Escobar: Robin Hood

Since his death in 1993, Escobar’s legacy has inspired dozens of books and films, some aiming to show him as a monster, some defending him, and others capitalizing on the drama for entertainment, such as a Colombian TV series called Pablo Escobar: El patrón del mal that aired from 2009 to 2012. Today thousands visit his grave in Medellín each year. Some are tourists taking a popular “Pablo Escobar Tour,” some come to mourn or offer respect, and others come to curse him.

Escobar’s life and personal development as well as his social construction as Robin Hood can be explained, at least in part, by the social and political conditions in Colombia during his lifetime and decades before his birth. Escobar’s own inherent personality can account for

By the time he was an adult the violence had calmed, but it had created a generation of Colombians who were accustomed to violence and murder. Many of them, especially the lower classes, felt alienated and distrustful of the government that they saw as corrupt and unjust. This created the appropriate conditions for a Robin Hood figure to emerge, someone to steal from the rich and redistribute the wealth and power among the poor. Escobar did just that, except he did it on a global scale by funneling billions dollars away from wealthy American consumers and into to Colombia. Then the end of the Cold War in the 1980’s caused a dramatic shift in the United States’ policy towards Latin America. When the threat of communism began to fade away, it was replaced by the threat of drugs and drug traffickers. Being the most powerful drug trafficker

In rustic zones particularly, laws were made by the elites and authorized by their paramilitaries. The idea of acting as a vigilante to secure one 's self and arrangement out equity has been a pattern all through Colombia 's history. Be that as it may, basic criminals and bootleggers represented a small amount of the fierce clash in Colombia. It is the country 's hundreds of years old issue of interior political clash, setting Liberals against Preservationists, that has made a durable environment of unsteadiness and brutality. All through the 1900 's Colombia 's populace was separated by party association. Gathering loyalties were quite often acquired; youthful kids were instilled as either Liberals or Traditionalists by their families and neighbors and regularly were instructed to despise the other party. Truth be told, when the new century rolled over the country was battling the