Person

Pablo Escobar

1949–1993 · 20th century

Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord who led the Medellín Cartel, which supplied most of the cocaine smuggled into the United States in the 1980s. He won popularity in Medellín through housing projects and briefly sat in Congress, but waged a war of bombings and murders against the state to avoid extradition. He was shot dead by Colombian police in Medellín in December 1993.

Pablo Escobar
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Republic of Colombia

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