Pablo Escobar the son of a teacher and a peasant, Born in 1949, his life of crime started at a young age. He use to steal tombstones and sold them to smugglers. He entered the cocaine trade around the 1970’s. The cocaine trade made him wealthy, powerful and one of the most violent criminals in all times. During the time large amounts of coca paste were purchased in Bolivia and Peru, and brought to the United States. During his operations he was not alone; he had others working with him from the Medellin Cartel. Pablo Escobar controlled 80% of all the drug trafficking, he was announced to be one of the ten richest men on earth. His rising cost the lives of three Colombian presidential candidates, an attorney general, a justice minister, more than 200 judges, dozens of journalists …show more content…
Pablo Escobar as a young man, he was ambitious and some say driven too, telling friends and family that he wanted to be President of Colombia someday. Living in the slums, he knew it wasn’t going to be easy to better himself. He got his start as a street criminal: he would steal tombstones, sandblast the names off of them, and resell them to crooked Panamanians. Later, he moved up to stealing cars. It was in the 1970’s that he found his path to wealth by drugs. His start in crime in such a young age tells you many things about his childhood; he sold the tombstones because he needed the money. If he wouldn’t have the need to worry about the income in his household, he would have concentrated on becoming the president, which is what he always wanted, even when he was the leader of a cartel. This tells you that he used the drugs and money to reach his goals; I know he would have had the same dedication on focusing on school if he hadn’t had to worry about how poor he was. Education would have made him rich, but as time went by, however the crime made him successful the minute he