he may be one of the most infamous
criminals of all time but he’s also a
fascinating figure he had a lot of
judges who were against him killed
that was his fight trying to show
Colombia that he was tougher than
Colombia
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
most interesting facts about Pablo
Escobar
El Padrino was señor Pablo Escobar and
for those of you livin on the moon for
the last 20 years he was it the boss of
it all for this list we’re looking at
exciting and intriguing facts about
Pablo Escobar a Colombian drug lord who
reigned throughout the 1970s and 80s and
made headlines across the world due to
his immense wealth dangerous status and
revolutionary drug distribution network
however we’re not ranking the facts in
terms of quality instead we’ll be going
chronologically throughout the
relatively short life of one of the
world’s most notorious criminals
Pablo’s policy in his war against the
government is called Plomo o Plata which
means silver or lead you can accept
Pablo’s bribe or you can accept his
bullets number 10 Colombia was violent
before Pablo Escobar was born in true to
form when the pen failed
Pablo was always ready with the sword
while Pablo Escobar may have contributed
greatly to Colombia’s violence and the
perception of the country as a dangerous
one it wasn’t exactly the safest place
to live before he was alive either born
the third of seven children – a farmer
and a schoolteacher in 1949 Escobar was
immediately thrust into a hazardous
society throughout the 1940s and 50s
Colombia was actually going through a
period of political turmoil known as la
violencia which literally means the
violence this stemmed from the
assassination of Liberal Party
presidential candidate Jorge Eliezer get
on with the ensuing civil war claiming
over 180,000 lives number nine
kidnapping and petty crimes made Escobar
a millionaire at 22 Escobar had his
sights and ambitions set on wealth and
power from his teenage years ever since
he was a petty thief selling fake
lottery tickets and scamming people on
the street this escalated into more
serious crimes in his late teens such as
trafficking marijuana and stealing cars
in his early 20s he dabbled in
kidnapping taking an executive from his
hometown of Medellin and ransoming him
for $100,000 which is roughly the
equivalent of $600,000 today all of this
made Escobar a millionaire by the time
he was 22
apparently crime does pay he imported
exotic animals had planes helicopters
number 8
Escobar killed his way to the top so
también los vamos is about
as you can imagine a gang or crime
family is bound to be full of violence
and betrayal
Escobar knew that there was only one way
to the top and he took his chance in
1975 at just 26 years old
Escobar wished to make a deal with the
Medellin syndicate head fabio Restrepo
which involved 14 kilos of cocaine yet
because he was viewed merely as a petty
street criminal
Escobar allegedly had Restrepo killed he
then informed Reston opposed employees
that they now worked for him effectively
taking charge and beginning his
ascension to drug baron he became king
of cocaine the titular head of the
midian cartel and many in cartel had the
reputation well deserved in my opinion
being one of the most ruthless violent
murderous criminal organizations in the
world number seven if he couldn’t bribe
you he’d kill you our enemy organization
Adele presser gotcha hero mu cocaina
comas in there are you stayin Escobar
made many friends and acquaintances in
law enforcement throughout his tenure as
drug baron often paying them off so they
would turn a blind eye to his illegal
practices da Oh bummer obviously not
everyone took the bribe resulting in his
famous saying Plata o Plomo meaning
silver or lead in other words take the
bribe or be killed this resulted in
thousands of deaths including the famous
bombing of Avianca flight 203 which
killed 107 innocent people and the das
building bombing which killed another 52
it’s estimated that Escobar was behind
between 4,000 and 5,000 deaths in total
there was no institution that was safe
from kott was cover number 6 his pilots
could earn up to five hundred thousand
dollars per flight grano Scalia knows
convento Kos toss toss port Ando Astin
Tamara Guarani Sosa violas CS y los
Manos quant oh poor poor poor boy lo a
donde
before Escobar hit it big he would
personally fly small planes into the
United States with cocaine hidden in the
tires however once his business took off
he began to employ professional pilots
who would smuggle in tons of cocaine for
him oh and we’re not being vague here we
mean that they would literally fly tons
as much as 11 tons on one flight and
depending on how much coca given pilot
was able to smuggle across he could make
up to $500,000 per flight with a
paycheck like that it’s no wonder
Escobar’s employees were so happy number
five he was insanely rich but no matter
what they did they couldn’t hide all
that money just kept coming in yep being
a drug baron is a sure way to make some
good money right no we mean he was
insanely rich as in officially
recognized as the seventh richest man in
the world by Forbes rich Escobar’s
brother states that in the cartels
heyday they were spending over $1,000
per week on rubber bands just to tie
their stacks of cash together
he had a zoo and his and his ranch
you’re talking about Colombia guy had
elephants zebras rhinoceros Escobar was
supplying 80 percent of the United
States cocaine and by the 90s he was
officially worth thirty billion dollars
he even built a grandiose mansion on an
island paradise and once burned two
million dollars in order to keep his
family warm number four he became
involved in politics to fight
extradition Jenin swindled bad on you no
existen leave it a spot i lo que puede
log on what’s a career path that you
probably never associate with cocaine
manufacturers and smugglers if your
answer is politics then you’re under
estimating the power of good old Pablo
in 1982 Escobar was elected as an
alternate member of the chamber of
Representatives while he was well into
his drug empire days as a member of the
Colombian Liberal Party he aimed to gain
enough influence in the country’s
politics to fight extradition
Escobar knew that he could never bribe
his way around the law in the United
States and Colombian politician Rodrigo
Lara Bonilla
denouncement of Escobar and drug
trafficking only fueled his hatred of
the government number three he loved the
poor and the poor loved him often
considered a modern-day Robin Hood
Escobar often gave much of his riches to
the poor which garnered him praise and
devotion we have an altar dedicated to
Pablo Escobar because we believe that he
was a very good man and good men go to
heaven in fact there’s a neighborhood in
Medellin that still bears his name
Escobar was well known for his
contributions to the city which included
sponsoring local children’s football
teams and building sports complexes
schools and churches for the poor in
return the poor defended Escobar until
the end literally when he died in 1993
over 25,000 people showed up for his
funeral many of them members of the poor
who still felt gratitude for his
generosity number two he caused Colombia
to become the murder capital of the
world s turambar invisibly una cadena be
silly no se puede pasar desta area lo
TRO por que hace Matan it’s a given that
with the drug business comes violence
however as we touched on previously
there was no limit to the extent of
Escobar’s wrath his powerful influence
and the wars that raged between cartels
during his time led Colombia to become
the murder capital of the world in the
early 90s in fact the country suffered
over 27,000 violent deaths in 1992 alone
which is equal to roughly seventy four
murders a day what was his punishment
for all of this a personally designed
jail complete with a waterfall bar
jacuzzi and personal football field the
say he got off easy is a massive
understatement
Escobar’s reach is long very steel
refused federal protection and that his
end in a parking lot in Baton Rouge
whoops
number one the end game you’re facing an
enemy who’s trying to kill you in those
kind of circumstances the ultimate goal
is to succeed is to
not to necessarily play by the rules
what was the final result for Escobar
let’s just say it didn’t turn out well
for him in 1992 a vigilante group
calling themselves los pepes emerged
fighting fire with fire burning down
Escobar’s compounds and killing family
members when they killed Parra they also
took his teenage son and murdered him –
they hung signs around their neck that
said what do you think of the exchange
for the bombs
Pablo US intelligence agencies began
working with Colombian forces and
through radio triangulation technology
they were able to locate Escobar in
Medellin which ultimately resulted in a
shootout across rooftops in 1993 while
Escobar was fatally shot through the ear
it is still disputed whether the bullet
came from the authorities or whether he
pulled the trigger himself whichever the
case may be crime doesn’t pay after all
so did you learn something new about
Escobar did we leave any interesting
facts out for more informative top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com then let us speak no
more of these business let’s go drive we
are many other seems to talk about this
criminals of all time but he’s also a
fascinating figure he had a lot of
judges who were against him killed
that was his fight trying to show
Colombia that he was tougher than
Colombia
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
most interesting facts about Pablo
Escobar
El Padrino was señor Pablo Escobar and
for those of you livin on the moon for
the last 20 years he was it the boss of
it all for this list we’re looking at
exciting and intriguing facts about
Pablo Escobar a Colombian drug lord who
reigned throughout the 1970s and 80s and
made headlines across the world due to
his immense wealth dangerous status and
revolutionary drug distribution network
however we’re not ranking the facts in
terms of quality instead we’ll be going
chronologically throughout the
relatively short life of one of the
world’s most notorious criminals
Pablo’s policy in his war against the
government is called Plomo o Plata which
means silver or lead you can accept
Pablo’s bribe or you can accept his
bullets number 10 Colombia was violent
before Pablo Escobar was born in true to
form when the pen failed
Pablo was always ready with the sword
while Pablo Escobar may have contributed
greatly to Colombia’s violence and the
perception of the country as a dangerous
one it wasn’t exactly the safest place
to live before he was alive either born
the third of seven children – a farmer
and a schoolteacher in 1949 Escobar was
immediately thrust into a hazardous
society throughout the 1940s and 50s
Colombia was actually going through a
period of political turmoil known as la
violencia which literally means the
violence this stemmed from the
assassination of Liberal Party
presidential candidate Jorge Eliezer get
on with the ensuing civil war claiming
over 180,000 lives number nine
kidnapping and petty crimes made Escobar
a millionaire at 22 Escobar had his
sights and ambitions set on wealth and
power from his teenage years ever since
he was a petty thief selling fake
lottery tickets and scamming people on
the street this escalated into more
serious crimes in his late teens such as
trafficking marijuana and stealing cars
in his early 20s he dabbled in
kidnapping taking an executive from his
hometown of Medellin and ransoming him
for $100,000 which is roughly the
equivalent of $600,000 today all of this
made Escobar a millionaire by the time
he was 22
apparently crime does pay he imported
exotic animals had planes helicopters
number 8
Escobar killed his way to the top so
también los vamos is about
as you can imagine a gang or crime
family is bound to be full of violence
and betrayal
Escobar knew that there was only one way
to the top and he took his chance in
1975 at just 26 years old
Escobar wished to make a deal with the
Medellin syndicate head fabio Restrepo
which involved 14 kilos of cocaine yet
because he was viewed merely as a petty
street criminal
Escobar allegedly had Restrepo killed he
then informed Reston opposed employees
that they now worked for him effectively
taking charge and beginning his
ascension to drug baron he became king
of cocaine the titular head of the
midian cartel and many in cartel had the
reputation well deserved in my opinion
being one of the most ruthless violent
murderous criminal organizations in the
world number seven if he couldn’t bribe
you he’d kill you our enemy organization
Adele presser gotcha hero mu cocaina
comas in there are you stayin Escobar
made many friends and acquaintances in
law enforcement throughout his tenure as
drug baron often paying them off so they
would turn a blind eye to his illegal
practices da Oh bummer obviously not
everyone took the bribe resulting in his
famous saying Plata o Plomo meaning
silver or lead in other words take the
bribe or be killed this resulted in
thousands of deaths including the famous
bombing of Avianca flight 203 which
killed 107 innocent people and the das
building bombing which killed another 52
it’s estimated that Escobar was behind
between 4,000 and 5,000 deaths in total
there was no institution that was safe
from kott was cover number 6 his pilots
could earn up to five hundred thousand
dollars per flight grano Scalia knows
convento Kos toss toss port Ando Astin
Tamara Guarani Sosa violas CS y los
Manos quant oh poor poor poor boy lo a
donde
before Escobar hit it big he would
personally fly small planes into the
United States with cocaine hidden in the
tires however once his business took off
he began to employ professional pilots
who would smuggle in tons of cocaine for
him oh and we’re not being vague here we
mean that they would literally fly tons
as much as 11 tons on one flight and
depending on how much coca given pilot
was able to smuggle across he could make
up to $500,000 per flight with a
paycheck like that it’s no wonder
Escobar’s employees were so happy number
five he was insanely rich but no matter
what they did they couldn’t hide all
that money just kept coming in yep being
a drug baron is a sure way to make some
good money right no we mean he was
insanely rich as in officially
recognized as the seventh richest man in
the world by Forbes rich Escobar’s
brother states that in the cartels
heyday they were spending over $1,000
per week on rubber bands just to tie
their stacks of cash together
he had a zoo and his and his ranch
you’re talking about Colombia guy had
elephants zebras rhinoceros Escobar was
supplying 80 percent of the United
States cocaine and by the 90s he was
officially worth thirty billion dollars
he even built a grandiose mansion on an
island paradise and once burned two
million dollars in order to keep his
family warm number four he became
involved in politics to fight
extradition Jenin swindled bad on you no
existen leave it a spot i lo que puede
log on what’s a career path that you
probably never associate with cocaine
manufacturers and smugglers if your
answer is politics then you’re under
estimating the power of good old Pablo
in 1982 Escobar was elected as an
alternate member of the chamber of
Representatives while he was well into
his drug empire days as a member of the
Colombian Liberal Party he aimed to gain
enough influence in the country’s
politics to fight extradition
Escobar knew that he could never bribe
his way around the law in the United
States and Colombian politician Rodrigo
Lara Bonilla
denouncement of Escobar and drug
trafficking only fueled his hatred of
the government number three he loved the
poor and the poor loved him often
considered a modern-day Robin Hood
Escobar often gave much of his riches to
the poor which garnered him praise and
devotion we have an altar dedicated to
Pablo Escobar because we believe that he
was a very good man and good men go to
heaven in fact there’s a neighborhood in
Medellin that still bears his name
Escobar was well known for his
contributions to the city which included
sponsoring local children’s football
teams and building sports complexes
schools and churches for the poor in
return the poor defended Escobar until
the end literally when he died in 1993
over 25,000 people showed up for his
funeral many of them members of the poor
who still felt gratitude for his
generosity number two he caused Colombia
to become the murder capital of the
world s turambar invisibly una cadena be
silly no se puede pasar desta area lo
TRO por que hace Matan it’s a given that
with the drug business comes violence
however as we touched on previously
there was no limit to the extent of
Escobar’s wrath his powerful influence
and the wars that raged between cartels
during his time led Colombia to become
the murder capital of the world in the
early 90s in fact the country suffered
over 27,000 violent deaths in 1992 alone
which is equal to roughly seventy four
murders a day what was his punishment
for all of this a personally designed
jail complete with a waterfall bar
jacuzzi and personal football field the
say he got off easy is a massive
understatement
Escobar’s reach is long very steel
refused federal protection and that his
end in a parking lot in Baton Rouge
whoops
number one the end game you’re facing an
enemy who’s trying to kill you in those
kind of circumstances the ultimate goal
is to succeed is to
not to necessarily play by the rules
what was the final result for Escobar
let’s just say it didn’t turn out well
for him in 1992 a vigilante group
calling themselves los pepes emerged
fighting fire with fire burning down
Escobar’s compounds and killing family
members when they killed Parra they also
took his teenage son and murdered him –
they hung signs around their neck that
said what do you think of the exchange
for the bombs
Pablo US intelligence agencies began
working with Colombian forces and
through radio triangulation technology
they were able to locate Escobar in
Medellin which ultimately resulted in a
shootout across rooftops in 1993 while
Escobar was fatally shot through the ear
it is still disputed whether the bullet
came from the authorities or whether he
pulled the trigger himself whichever the
case may be crime doesn’t pay after all
so did you learn something new about
Escobar did we leave any interesting
facts out for more informative top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com then let us speak no
more of these business let’s go drive we
are many other seems to talk about this
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