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    the world’s most dangerous outlaw “Pablo Escobar” Gianella Mejia Language Arts Ms‚pena May 31‚ 2012 Pablo emilio Escobar was one of the world’s most wanted criminals in the 1980s. He was born december 1‚ 1949 in Antoquia‚ Colombia to middle class parents and family. Pablo’s older brother ‚Roberto‚ said that Pablo was a friendly‚ kind person who would’ve

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    Pablo Escobar was born on December 1‚ 1949. He grew up in Rio Negro‚ Colombia just miles away from his future empire headquarters in Medellin. His mother was a schoolteacher‚ which didn’t seem to stop Pablo from being suspended from his school on numerous occasions. Pablo once told his mother that he wanted to be "big" someday but I don’t think this was what she had in mind. Pablo started out making money by sneaking into grave yards at night and stealing the tombstones from the deceased he would

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    Pablo Escobar The paper traces Escobar’s life from humble peasant beginnings to powerful cocaine drug dealer and kingpin. The paper discusses the sound financial decisions Escobar made as well as the way he invested in legitimate projects using the funds he gained illegally. The paper explores the influence Escobar had and the way he worked‚ ultimately unsuccessfully‚ to establish a no-extradition clause into the Colombian constitution. Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1 1949

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    Pablo Escobar Pablo Escobar was born on December 1‚ 1949 in Rionegro‚ Columbia. His parents were Abel de Jesus Dari Escobar‚ a farmer‚ and Hemilda Garvine‚ a teacher.1 His family was poor and because of this‚ Pablo‚ at the age of five‚ promised his mother that he would give her everything. This was his childhood ambition‚ along with being rich by the time he was 22.1 The fact that he was poor motivated him and made him strive for power and money. He later became the most notorious and richest

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    Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Columbian drug lord and leader of one of the most powerful criminal organizations ever assembled. During the height of his power in the 1980’s‚ he controlled a vast empire of drugs and murder that covered the globe. He made billions of dollars‚ ordered the murder of hundreds if not thousands of people‚ and ruled over a personal empire of mansions‚ airplanes‚ a private zoo and even his own army of soldiers and hardened criminals. Born on December 1‚ 1949 into

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    Killing Pablo Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord who ran the Medellín Cartel. He controlled and profited off of the largest amount of cocaine that was brought to the United States. He was estimated to be worth $5 billion and named one of the wealthiest men in the world by Forbes magazine. His massive wealth bought him status and power‚ inside of Colombia. In 1982 Pablo Escobar ran for a substitute position in the Colombian Congress. He won and began using his newfound status to

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    a humanitarian and even a saint by some. A man responsible for orchestrating the deaths of many people who opposed him‚ including members of the Colombian police force and notable foreign politicians. Such is the case of Pablo Escobar. At the height of his powers‚ Pablo Escobar was considered one of the richest men in the world and finding himself being the wealthiest criminal in history. He was responsible for the growth of the cocaine trade most notably United States amongst other countries. His

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    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

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    PABLO ESCOBAR “Power like-love is a double edge sword.” With that sword‚ Pablo Escobar‚ Colombia’s powerful drug capo‚ held tight to. On one edge‚ Pablo Escobar was a man who was infatuated with power‚ and used it to his advantage to corrupt Colombia’s political force for his own good. Because of his power status‚ Escobar was feared by many people because of what he can have done to them. And on the other edge‚ Pablo Escobar used his power to help those who were less fortunate‚ and he would be

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    Pablo Escobar Born into a modest middle class family‚ a father who was a farmer and a mother who was an elementary school teacher‚ Pablo was the third born of nine children. Pablo strived and was driven to succeed by all costs. As a young child Pablo hoped to one day become President of Columbia. However‚ Pablo fell in with the wrong crowd where his drive and determination to achieve great success was exploited and turned into money driven criminal acts. Soon the Pablo Escobar of humble beginnings

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