“Pablo Escobar”, you might not be familiar with the name. But you may have heard about a man who burnt millions of cash to keep her daughter warm? He is none other than Pablo Escobar, the drug lord who dreamed to be the President of Columbia. Colombian history reveals how this single man who came out of nowhere began the narcotic war which killed thousands of people. From the terror he spread across the country he intended to gain power and law under his control. The 80s and 90s reflect Escobar’s merciless bloodshed eras that boomed the narcotic conquest in Columbia.
Number one criminal
During the period Pablo Escobar held the title of world’s number one drug dealer, bandit, and the most wanted man for the US and Colombian Government. To defend himself Pablo Escobar had no hesitance to kill thousands of people. His relentless killings revealed his inhumanity that he covered up as fair revenge from his rivals and the justice he demanded from the Colombian Government.
In between 80th and 90th centuries, Columbia engulfed by Escobar’s dark shadow which hunted down anyone who came under that. During the blood-shedding battle, he began he heartlessly and relentlessly killed innocent people, children, infants, pregnant mothers, elderly people, politicians, judges, lawyers, journalists, and many more. The records show that he killed over three thousand people in the most inhuman ways. Most of his crimes are unrecorded as the evidence was made lost or hidden.
When Pablo Escobar, the notorious drug lord invaded the United States through his drugs in reward he could earn heaps of money that made him give up counting and run out of places to hide. The enormous amounts of money that kept flowing from his illegal trade attracted him more rivals and threats. At the moment he dreamed to become the president of Colombia and play the role of Robin Hood for the poor people his destiny turns against him while revealing his true identity for the whole world.
The Narcotic war begins when the US government and Columbian government came to light to hunt him down. After he kept escaping from place to place, hiding from the rivals as well the armed forces, he finally decided to show himself up for the sake of his family member’s lives. In the year 1993, right after one day after his 44th birthday, he was shot dead in his born city Medellin. Approximately 25,000 people attended his final moment. On that day Colombia gained independence from the drug mafia and narcotic war that tortured the civilians for decades.
Sebastian Marroquin, about his father
“My father had millions of Dollars that made him buy all kinds of luxury in the world. He had everything; you name it. As I grew up, I got to know how what he did for a living. One day he told me that he is a bandit and he smuggles drugs for a living. I was old enough to understand the extent of crimes he was committing against the Government as well as the civilians.
There were so many occasions where I tried to stop him from doing what he was doing. As a response, he built his prison and became the man who built his prison for the first time in history. The latter part of his life was never peaceful. Because he had to keep flee from place to place to protect him from the rivals as well as the Military.
Even though he played the role of a good father, he never wanted to play the role of a good human being. Once he told me that cocaine is a poison to sell but not to consume. The easy money he made put him in a position where he could never turn back.
The greed for money and power kept growing with his ego. It is the point where he took his first step to violence in extremity. As he was the most wanted man in the world during that period I and my family member’s lives were also in danger. I can still remember the reward for my head was four million dollars during that period.
After the death of my father, his rivals came back and asked for all the money that they spent to kill Pablo. To save our lives we did everything in our power. I had to change my name to fly to another country because none of the countries wanted a criminal’s family in.
That is how I and the rest of my family came to live in Argentina. If I have an opportunity to go to Colombia again, my only wish is to apologise to the people for what my father did to them. I’m a strong believer in humanity and peace.
Even though Pablo Escobar is my father, I never accept what he did to Colombia. Everyone deserves to live a peaceful life while letting others live theirs is my belief that I wish my father could also believe, but never did...”.