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The Fall of Pablo Escobar
King of cocaine
Pablo Escobar was killed by police on December 2, 1993. That was the end of the “reign” of the world’s most notorious drug dealer, a man responsible for several thousand crimes. The man is known as the “King of Cocaine” who was the richest murderer in history, with an estimated fortune in the early 1990s of $ 30 billion. Currently, his sister, Luz Maria Escobar, is doing her best to apologize to Escobar’s victims, writes BBC.
“Every day I think of all those people who have suffered or are still suffering because of my brother, because of the war he has waged,” she said.
The grim reaper
From the 1980s until his death in 1993, Pablo Escobar and his cartel led to a dramatic increase in the crime rate in Colombia. In 1991, in the city of Medellín, the base of Escobar’s power, the homicide rate had reached 381 per 100,000 inhabitants; 7,500 people were killed that year alone.
Escobar’s targets were politicians, police officers, state security forces, journalists, and justice officials. These people were forcibly involved in Escobar’s declared war to prevent the passage of a law that would have allowed the extradition of drug traffickers from Colombia to the United States.
