Pablo Escobar Research Paper
Pablo Escobar – A Criminal with a Conscience
Profiles in Crime
“Pablo was mourned by thousands. Crowds rioted as his casket was carried into the streets of his home city of Medellin” (Bowden, p15). This funeral does not sound as that of a notorious thug, but that of a vigilantly. Pablo Escobar committed many crimes ranging from petty theft, to terrorism, but mainly he was a drug king pin responsible for flooding North America with cocaine in the 1980’s. So the question is why was he mourned so much after his death? Pablo Escobar was no ordinary criminal; he was a criminal with a conscience. Although it is allegedly thought that Pablo went from being dirt poor to becoming the 7th richest man in the world in 1989, “Pablo did not grow up poor, as he and his hired publicist would sometime claim” (Bowden, p16). Pablo Escobar was …show more content…
1, 1949, but his criminal life started in his teens, when he and his gang would steal headstones from the cemetery, sand them down and re-sell them. From there he moved on to conning people, to car thefts, to extortion, where people would pay to not have their cars stolen. He continued his life of crime by legitimating his stolen cars through counterfeit paperwork and selling them. At this point Pablo was becoming known as a young crime boss, and started using lethal violence. “It was murder, but a kind of murder that can be rationalized. A man had to protect his interests” (Bowden, p20). When the “pot-generation” discovered cocaine, this brought a completely new market for Pablo and his crime bosses to exploit. Pablo would be paid profits from all the cocaine-manufacturing plants in his territory through extortion. Although by 1975, Pablo’s connection with Rubin, a young Medellin pilot opened doors for an import/export business, and from there on Pablo’s up rise in the cocaine trade was immanent where he soon began to make millions, which turned into
Profiles in Crime
“Pablo was mourned by thousands. Crowds rioted as his casket was carried into the streets of his home city of Medellin” (Bowden, p15). This funeral does not sound as that of a notorious thug, but that of a vigilantly. Pablo Escobar committed many crimes ranging from petty theft, to terrorism, but mainly he was a drug king pin responsible for flooding North America with cocaine in the 1980’s. So the question is why was he mourned so much after his death? Pablo Escobar was no ordinary criminal; he was a criminal with a conscience. Although it is allegedly thought that Pablo went from being dirt poor to becoming the 7th richest man in the world in 1989, “Pablo did not grow up poor, as he and his hired publicist would sometime claim” (Bowden, p16). Pablo Escobar was …show more content…
1, 1949, but his criminal life started in his teens, when he and his gang would steal headstones from the cemetery, sand them down and re-sell them. From there he moved on to conning people, to car thefts, to extortion, where people would pay to not have their cars stolen. He continued his life of crime by legitimating his stolen cars through counterfeit paperwork and selling them. At this point Pablo was becoming known as a young crime boss, and started using lethal violence. “It was murder, but a kind of murder that can be rationalized. A man had to protect his interests” (Bowden, p20). When the “pot-generation” discovered cocaine, this brought a completely new market for Pablo and his crime bosses to exploit. Pablo would be paid profits from all the cocaine-manufacturing plants in his territory through extortion. Although by 1975, Pablo’s connection with Rubin, a young Medellin pilot opened doors for an import/export business, and from there on Pablo’s up rise in the cocaine trade was immanent where he soon began to make millions, which turned into