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Who Was Pablo Escobar?

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 to December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug trafficker who eventually controlled over 80 percent of the cocaineshipped to the U.S., earning him the rank of one of Forbes Magazine’s 10 wealthiest people in the world. Escobar entered the cocaine trade in the early 1970s, collaborating with other criminals to form the Medellin Cartel. He earned popularity by sponsoring charity projects and soccer clubs, but later, terror campaigns that resulted in the murder of thousands turned public opinion against him. He was killed by Colombian police in 1993.

 

Escobar’s Wife, Son and Daughter

In 1976, Pablo Escobar married 15-year-old Maria Victoria Henao. The couple had two children together: a son, Juan Pablo Escobar, and a daughter, Manuela.
Today Escobar’s son Juan Pablo is a motivational speaker who goes by the name Sebastian Marroquin. Marroquin studied architecture and published a book in 2015, Pablo Escobar: My Father, which tells the story of growing up with the world’s most notorious drug kingpin. He also asserts that his father had committed suicide.
'My father's not a person to be imitated,” Marroquin said in an Agence France-Presse interview. “He showed us the path we must never take as a society because it's the path to self-destruction, the loss of values and a place where life ceases to have importance.”   

Pablo Escobar’s Net Worth

By the mid-1980s, Pablo Escobar had an estimated net worth of $30 billion and was named one of the 10 richest people on Earth by Forbes. Cash was so prevalent that Escobar purchased a Learjet for the sole purpose of flying his money. At the time, Escobar controlled more than 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States; more than 15 tons were reportedly smuggled each day, netting the Cartel as much as $420 million a week.

 

 

Jose Figueroa Agosto

 

Also known as “Junior Capsula” and “the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean,” Jose Figueroa Agosto was the head of a major drug trafficking organization that made 90% of cocaine in Puerto Rico. Agosto had been jailed for a murder and was serving a 209-year sentence in Puerto Rico; in 1999, he escaped from the prison. He was captured again in July 2010 by FBI agents and has been imprisoned since then. Besides his crimes committed in Puerto Rico, Agosto was also wanted in the Dominican Republic for kidnapping, money-laundering, and drug-trafficking.

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George Jung

 

Nicknamed “Boston George” and “El Americano,” George Jung is a former drug trafficker and smuggler who was a major player in the cocaine trade in the US in the 1970’s and early 1980’s. Jung was arrested and received a 60-year sentence in 1994, of which he served 20 years before being released. However, after just 2 years of freedom, he was arrested again as he violated his parole. Jung’s life story was portrayed in the 2001 biopic (biographical) film “Blow,” starring Johnny Depp.

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Rafael Caro Quintero

 

Born in 1952, Rafael Caro Quintero is a Mexican drug trafficker and one of the leaders of the Guadalajara Cartel, a forerunner of the notorious Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel. In 1985, Quintero was convicted of ordering the torture and murder of a US anti-drugs agent and received a 40-year sentence. He was released after serving 28 years after the Mexican court ruled he should have been tried at a state level rather than on federal charges. The US, however, did not agree with the release and has been offering a $5 million reward for information leading to Quintero’s recapture.

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Khun Sa

 

Also known as “The Opium King,” Khun Sa was one of the most feared and powerful kingpins in Asia. He was the leader of smuggling operations in the Golden Triangle, an opium-producing area in Southeast Asia that included Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. At a certain point in time, the Golden Triangle was responsible for 70% of the world’s opium. At the height of his power in the 1980’s, Khun Sa also controlled an estimated 70% of the country’s heroin business, which enabled him to finance an army of tens of thousands of soldiers and large-scale heroin laboratories.

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Dawood Ibrahim

 

Nicknamed “Bhai,” Dawood Ibrahim is a notorious drug baron and gangster from Mumbai, India. Ibrahim has for years led a 5,000-member criminal syndicate known as D-Company. The organized crime group has engaged in everything from narcotics to contract killing, working mostly in Pakistan, India, and the United Arab Emirates. Ibrahim shares smuggling routes with al Qaeda and has collaborated with both al Qaeda and its South Asian affiliate, Lashkar-e-Taiba, which pulled off the November 2008 Mumbai Attacks.

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Fabio Ochoa Vasquez

 

Along with his older brothers Juan David and Jorge Luis, Fabio Ochoa Vasquez was at one point leading the Medellin Cartel. While Juan David and Jorge Luis operated in Colombia, Fabio moved to Florida where he lived in the 1970’s and early 1980’s. He was alleged to have handled thousands of pounds of cocaine there. After serving a brief prison term in Colombia, he was arrested and extradited to the US in 1999, where he has been serving a 30-year term in a federal prison.