How Is Pablo Escobar A Crime

Not many people are able to make 20 billion dollars per year. Pablo Escobar was born into humble beginnings. His parents were a school teacher and a peasant. As a teen he stole tombstones from gravesites and sold them to smugglers from Panama. Pablo always hustled since he was a young child. Still, money was always very limited in the Escobar household however Pablo began to see an alternative to his hopeless financial destiny. Pablo found a way to escape the generational curse of poverty that so many are born into. He began to sell cocaine. Pablo would sell or be connected to drugs until he was executed by American soldiers. Pablo Escobar is considered a criminal by many people in the United States, but the people Columbia especially of the
working and lower classes held Pablo Escobar in high esteem. He gave back his country and community. He supplied many people with jobs. He constructed many low income housing projects. Escobar built hospitals and churches. He built many free to the public schools: he even sponsored soccer teams across Columbia. Pablo Escobar knew what it was like to be poor; he helped many families have a better quality of life.
The United States began to put an extreme amount of pressure on the Columbian government to arrest Escobar. Cocaine is illegal in the United States, but it is legal in Columbia. Still, Escobar’s lawyers and the Columbian government compromised, and Escobar was sentenced to five years of house arrest. The house that he was confined to was so massive and extravagant, it was named La Catedral. Escobar even selected his own correction officers. While on house arrest, he still controlled the daily operations of the cartel. He served one year of “mansion arrest” and fled in 1992 when word got to the authorities that executions were held at La Catedral. He used his aunt’s house in Medellin as his hide-out. After continued pressure from the American government, the Columbian government agreed to accept American help in the search for Escobar. On the morning of December 2, 1993, the Columbian police and the special American task force stormed Escobar’s aunt’s house. Pablo and one of his body guards tried to escape: they were shot down on the roof. Pablo’s 18 year reign as the world’s cocaine king was
over. Pablo Escobar’s life was multifaceted. He was a philanthropist and a politician. He was a man who was born at the bottom of Columbia’s social hierarchy, but he became the head of a multi-billion dollar organization. He was also a murder and drug smuggler. Was his death a homicide or assassination?
Homicide is the deliberate killing of another. Assassination means to murder a prominent person by sudden or secret attack usually for political reasons. Pablo Escobar’s death was an assignation carried out by the United States government because he was a prominent political figure, he had considerable influence over judicial affairs, and actively sought by the most powerful country in the world. First, Pablo Escobar was murdered because he was a prominent political figure. In 1982, Escobar was elected as an alternate member of the Chamber of Representatives of Columbia. He had influence over government affairs and access to important national and international information. For example, he was the official representative of the Colombian government when Felipe González of Spain was sworn into office. Pablo’s death must be considered an assassination simply because of his political title, governmental influence, and international popularity. Second, Pablo Escobar had considerable power over governmental affairs. Escobar controlled his sentencing; he served his house arrest on his own terms. He influenced the nullification the American-Colombian extradition treaty of
1979. With the nullification, Columbia no longer wished to extradite drug dealers to America for trial. The American government took the nullification personally. The U.S. knew that Columbia would not extradite Escobar, so they went under the pretense of helping them find him. The American task force assassinated Escobar as soon as they had him in their scopes. Last, the United States government went to much time, effort, and money to assassinate Pablo Escobar. They pressure the Columbian government for an arrest and extradition to the United States, even after the American-Columbian Extradition treaty was nullified. The United States government would not stop until they killed him. The Columbian government eventually agreed to allow a special American task force come to help find Pablo a year after he ran away from his fabulous home. The American task force was sent to kill Escobar not bring him to justice. It has never been proven that the Columbian police killed Escobar. From his gunshot wounds, it is obvious that he was executed. The American task force was so pleased with their work that they posed with the Escobar’s copse. The U. S. troop had successfully completed their mission: they had assassinated Pablo Escobar. Escobar’s assassination was a direct result of his political prominence and government influence. Without these things, the U. S. would not have been interested in his death. The U.S. government killed him and made him an example to other who aspires to do business within the U. S. on their terms.