Pablo Escobar Research Paper

The 1970’s were fading away, and so was the beginning of Escobar in the cocaine business. The 1980’s Escobar’s criminal activity boosted up, the demand for cocaine in the US was high and Pablo was the man to supply the white powder. James Mollison, a journalist for the Guardian stated in his article that US citizens search for cocaine took Pablo Escobar from being the underdog to become the most powerful and notorious narco. “The popularity of cocaine in the clubs of Miami and New York in the late 70s and early 80s propelled Escobar from a backstreet crime boss to one of the richest and most powerful men in the world,” Mollison stated. By the mid-1980’s Escobar had become the billionaire he once ambitioned to be. According to Peter Green a

Halah Touryalai mentioned in her article for Forbes magazine in 2016, “In October 1987, Forbes published its first international billionaires issue with about 100 of the world's richest including Colombia's cocaine king, Pablo Escobar.” Escobar did not only make it to the list in 1987, he went on and kept his position for 7 years in a row, until his death in 1993. Escobar was estimated to own 40% of the cartel cash flow was estimated to be of at least $3 billion, and his net worth to be over $2 billion. Pablo was making huge profits, according to Green, a kilo of cocaine could cost Pablo $5000 to refine and smuggle to Miami, but it could be sold up to $70,000. In 1978, when Escobar was just starting he was moving, 35 kilos of coke out of Colombia a month, during the Cartel’s best time, they had five to seven flights a day to the U.S alone each carrying up to 500 kilos of coke. Escobar besides being a narco he was also a man that cared for his family and wanted the best for them, he also wanted luxuries that no one else had. He decided to build a very luxurious home, but that was not the most impressive concept. Besides building a fancy estate, he built a zoo with exotic animals including hippopotamus and