6 things about Pablo Escobar

in #escobar7 years ago
  1. In 1991, Pablo Escobar was confined in a prison he built himself and which he called "La Catedral".According to the agreement with the Colombian government, Escobar was permitted to choose who will go with him in prison.

2.He was known as the Robin Hood of drugs .He gave away more than 6 million dollars for the families that lived at the same street.

3.In the mid 1980s, Escobar earn 420 million dollars a week by smuggling cocaine into the US. In a year, Escobar earn about 22 billion dollars.

4.For seven consecutive years, from 1987 to 1993, Pablo Escobar was included among the richest people in the world, organized by the magazine Forbes. In 1989 it was listed as the seventh richest person in the world.

5.In addition to hiding money, another problem that Pablo and his cartel members faced was their organization. According to Robert Escobar cocaine king spent about $ 2,500 per month stretch.

  1. Escobar's immense wealth has become problematic, being unable to launder money trafficker timely. So he began to bury them on the farm land in Colombia or to hide in dilapidated houses. About 10% of this money rotted or were flushed mice. This means that every month, Escobar lost about 2.1 billion dollars. But his wealth was so great that these losses hardly felt.

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