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	Pablo Escobar Biography - Biography.com
		Escobar eventually controlled over 80% of the cocaine shipped to the U.S. He was named one of the ten richest people on earth by Fortune and Forbes magazines.
		Escobar's rise to prominence among Colombian drug traffickers is said to have been attributed to personal characteristics, influential ties, and a wise use of financial resources.
		After one year in prison, where Escobar had sought refuge from assassins, followed by several more months on the run, he was shot to death by members of a special police unit in 1993.
	www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=9542497 (388 words)

	Pablo Escobar
		Pablo Escobar (1949-1993) was a Colombian drug lord who was considered by members of the government, news reporters and the general public alike to be one of the most ruthless, ambitious and powerful drug dealers Colombia ever had.
		Escobar, who was suspected of ordering more than 100 murders, was a thief in the streets of Colombia as a teenager.
		Escobar, according to a television documentary shown in the United States, built an air strip in The Bahamas, from where he could direct delivery into the States.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Pablo_Escobar.html (355 words)

	Pablo Escobar
		Escobar began what would become one of the most successful criminal careers in history as a teenage car thief and a tombstone robber in the streets of MedellÃn, Colombia.
		Escobar was "jailed" in his own luxurious private prison, '' La Catedral '', which he was allowed to build for his confinement in return for turning himself in.
		Accordingly, how Escobar was killed during the confrontation has been debated, but it is known that he was cornered on the rooftops of MedellÃn and suffered gunshots to the leg, back, and the fatal one behind his ear by members of Colombian National Police.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Pablo_Escobar (1378 words)

	DonPablo-The Official Pablo Escobar Page!
		Escobar was blamed for assassinating three of the five candidates for Colombian president in 1989, and for instigating a takeover of the Palace of Justice in Bogota in 1986.
		Alongside was an illustration from Hustler magazine, depicting Escobar and his associates cavorting in an orgy behind bars (throwing darts at a picture of President George Bush on a TV screen), and a photograph of himself and his son Juan Pablo posing before the front gate of the White House.
		Escobar signed all his correspondence with his thumbprint, and he stamped one on the framed photo of him and his son at the White House.
	www.geocities.com /powahous8/DonPablo.html (1702 words)

	Environmental Education Fund: Pablo Escobar
		Pablo is currently the Director of Operations for Urban Ministries, a not for profit organization that alleviates the harmful effects of poverty.
		Pablo has also served as a budget analyst with Wake County Government, as a financial director for Kaiser Permanente, and in several consulting assignments in both the public and private sector.
		Pablo holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master in Public Administration from NC State.
	www.eefund.org /level3.php?mpid=142 (207 words)

	Bambooweb: Pablo Escobar
		Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (January 12, 1949 - December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord who was considered by members of the government, news reporters and the general public alike to be one of the most ruthless, ambitious and powerful drug dealers Colombia ever had.
		Escobar during the 1980s became known internationally because his drug network, known as El Cartel de Medellín, is said to have controlled a large portion of the drugs that entered into Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic with cocaine base brought from Peru and Bolivia.
		Escobar was killed on December 2, 1993, while trying to run away from the Colombian police, who had found him living in a middle class barrio in Medellin.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/p/a/Pablo_Escobar.html (645 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Pablo Escobar
		Escobar bribed countless government officials, judges and other politicians, and he often personally executed uncooperative subordinates and had anyone he viewed as a threat assassinated, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of individuals.
		It has been claimed that Escobar was behind the 1985 storming of the Colombian Supreme Court by left-wing guerrillas from the 19th of April Movement, also known as M-19, which resulted in the murder of half the judges on the court.
		On October 28, 2006, Escobar's body was exhumed by request of his nephew Nicolás Escobar, two days after the death of mother Hermilda Gaviria (who opposed exhumation) to verify that the body in the tomb was in fact that of Escobar and also to collect DNA for a paternity test claim.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Pablo_Escobar (2004 words)

	Pablo Escobar
		Pablo is also the inventor of the Colombian neck-tie: slitting a man's throat and pulling his tongue out through the hole.
		But by 1982, Pablo Escobar was raking in billions of dollars from American coke heads, and he used those funds to win the hearts and minds of Medellin residents.
		Pablo began conducting business by carrier pigeon and word of mouth, since he soon realized that his phone conversations were being tapped.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/criminals/pablo-escobar (930 words)

	The Tech - Cocaine Trafficker Pablo Escobar Killed in Colombia
		Escobar, leader of the Medellin drug cartel, was killed as he and his bodyguards tried to elude police by climbing onto a rooftop of the safehouse where they were hiding, Colombian authorities said.
		Authorities said Escobar opened fire and was met by volleys of return fire from some of the dozens of police and troops who had stalked the drug kingpin to a house on the west side of the city of 1.6 million people.
		Escobar, reputed to shift frequently from one safehouse to another, was said to elude capture by paying weekly bribes to corrupt officials.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V113/N62/escobar.62w.html (579 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - ROBERTO ESCOBAR INTERVIEW
		With Pablo Escobar dead, an end was put to the growing power of the Medellin Cartel, but cocaine remained as Colombia's top export product.
		Pablo's brother Roberto has allready served 10 years in prison and was known as 'the minister of finance' within the Medellin Cartel.
		Pablo ruled his Medellin Cartel with an iron hand until he - on December 2nd 1993 - was shot down on a roof in the streets of Los Olivos after an intensive manhunt that went on for months and had the worlds eyes on it from the get go.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /tele.html (1560 words)

	Pablo Escobar (1949 - 1993)
		The hunt for Pablo Escobar grew uglier in 1993.
		If Pablo Escobar had ever doubted that the United States was hot on his trail, those doubts vanished after the U.S. Embassy in Bogota refused to issue visas for his wife and children to flee to the United States in February 1993.
		When the Lufthansa plane carrying the family of Pablo Escobar finally landed in Frankfurt, Germany, on a Sunday afternoon in November 1993, it was forced to taxi to a remote spot on an alternate runway, out of the view of press waiting in the terminal.
	www.cocaine.org /colombia/pablo-escobar.html (1654 words)

	Pablo Escobar Biography – EncycloMedia.com
		Escobar was possibly the most successful criminal in history, fashioning a crime empire by corrupting the Colombian government on a massive scale.
		Pablo Escobar was born on December 1, 1949.
		Pablo Escobar is believed to have been shot and killed by members of the Search Bloc/Colombian National Police; although it has been contested.
	www.encyclomedia.com /pablo_escobar.html (592 words)

	Pablo Escobar Information
		Pablo Escobar began his criminal life as a teenage car thief and allegedly a tombstone robber in the streets of Medellín, Colombia (Escobar denied ever stealing tombstones).
		Escobar was "jailed" in his own luxurious private prison, La Catedral, which he was allowed to build for his confinement in return for turning himself in.
		Accordingly, how Escobar was killed during the confrontation has been debated, but it is known that he was cornered on the rooftops of Medellín and suffered gunshots to the leg, back, and the fatal one behind his ear by members of Colombian National Police.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Pablo_Escobar (1344 words)

	The Biography Channel - Pablo Escobar Biography
		Pablo Escobar was responsible for creating the first international distribution system for cocaine when he set up a network of manufacturers and distributors stretching from Colombia to Miami, New York and Europe.
		Escobar was born the son of a teacher and a peasant.
		Escobar invested his ill gotten gains in real estate, but he also acted as sponsor of charity projects and soccer clubs, which earned him popularity and political standing, including a seat in parliament.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_story/172:657/1/Pablo_Escobar.htm (347 words)

	Pablo Escobar: Biography
		Pablo Escobar was born in 1949 as the son of a teacher and a peasant.
		Escobar invested his ill gotten gains primarily in real estate, but he also acted as sponsor of charity projects and soccer clubs which earned him a certain degree of popularity and political standing, including a seat in parliament.
		Eventually, Escobar and the shrinking number of his supporters were faced with a relentless campaign staged by government as well as by criminals.
	www.organized-crime.de /revcan02pabloescobar.htm (706 words)

	Pablo Escobar at AllExperts
		Pablo Escobar began his criminal life as a teenage car thief in the streets of MedellÃn, Colombia.
		In May of 1976 Escobar and several of his men were arrested after returning from a drug run to Ecuador.
		Because of her age Escobar had to get a special dispensation from a bishop in order to marry her.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pa/pablo_escobar.htm (1598 words)

	Pablo Escobar (1949 - 1993)
		After her husband was murdered by his former boss Pablo Escobar, Dolly Moncada began providing valuable information to the Americans who were helping direct and finance the hunt for the fugitive drug lord.
		If Pablo Escobar had ever doubted that the United States was hot on his trail, those doubts vanished after the U.S. Embassy in Bogota refused to issue visas for his wife and children to flee to the United States in February 1993.
		When the Lufthansa plane carrying the family of Pablo Escobar finally landed in Frankfurt, Germany, on a Sunday afternoon in November 1993, it was forced to taxi to a remote spot on an alternate runway, out of the view of press waiting in the terminal.
	cocaine.org /colombia/pablo-escobar.html (1654 words)

	frontline: drug wars: the business: colombian traffickers \| PBS
		And the violent leader, Pablo Escobar, was a common street thief who masterminded the criminal enterprise that became known as the Medellin cartel.
		Pablo Escobar was incredibly violent and his quest for power within the Colombian government led to a stand-off between the cartel and the government.
		Pablo Escobar is thought to be responsible for the murder of hundreds of government officials, police, prosecutors, judges, journalists and innocent bystanders.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/inside/colombian.html (1058 words)

	CNN.com - Reporter pursues Escobar story in 'Killing Pablo' - May 31, 2001
		Pablo Escobar controlled the Medellin drug cartel and made himself a fearsome power in Colombia.
		Escobar was caught once, when the Colombian government struck a deal with him to send him to jail.
		Escobar was killed on December 2, 1993, shot on the roof of a hideout in Medellin.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/05/31/killing.pablo/index.html (1085 words)

	Exhumado Pablo Escobar para establecer paternidad de un joven \| terra
		Exhumado Pablo Escobar para establecer paternidad de un joven
		Exhumado Pablo Escobar para establecer paternidad de un joven
		Pablo Escobar murió en un enfrentamiento con la policía tras meses de búsqueda, el 2 de diciembre de 1993, luego de fugarse de una cárcel en julio de 1992, y después de aceptar un sometimiento a la justicia a mediados de 1991.
	www.terra.com /noticias/articulo/html/act640183.htm (430 words)

	Pablo Escobar: A Man of Mass Destruction
		Pablo Escobar’s combination of illegal activities rooted in greed had devastating impacts on a myriad of people because he, with the help of members in his Medellin cartel, supplied the majority of cocaine in the Unites States that ruined countless lives, created narco-terrorism, and helped lead to the glorification of thugs and drug-dealing outlaws.
		Pablo Escobar ruined thousands of people’s lives by influencing and accelerating the use of cocaine in the Unites States.
		James Adams, a historian and author of “Medellin’s New Generation,” notes that by the time Escobar was 20 years-old, he was already a powerful gangster and accomplished car thief that had developed the a reputation as “a young crime boss on the make….that used casual lethal violence” (23).
	www.essaysword.com /viewpaper/39121.html (228 words)

	Pablo Escobar - The Cocaine King :Off the fence : documentaries, wildlife television, natural history programs
		Pablo Escobar, a small city thief born into the cocoa rich hills of Colombia, created the first international delivery system for cocaine.
		Despite the "war" on drugs, Escobar remained at large the worlds most wanted man. To remain free, he killed thousands of his enemies, scores of judges, reporters and cops.
		This documentary reveals excerpts from Escobar's movie, a never before seen candid film of Escobar and his "hit men" laughing and playing, even as the police tightened their noose.
	www.offthefence.com /content/programme.php?ID=137&Categories=4 (201 words)

	Powell's Books - Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
		Killing Pablo is the story of the fifteen-month manhunt for Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose escape from his lavish, mansionlike jail drove a nation to the brink of chaos.
		And there is Escobar's archenemy, Col. Hugo Martinez, the leader of Colombia's federal police, who would turn down a $6 million bribe, survive countless attempts on his life, and endure a humiliating exile while waging his battle against the drug lord's criminal empire.
		It was Martinez's son, raised in the shadow of constant threat from Escobar's followers, who would ultimately track the fugitive to a Bogota rooftop on the fateful day in 1993 when the outlaw would finally meet his end.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0871137836&atch=r (379 words)

	Pablo Escobar free essays
		Pablo Escobar: “El Doctor” At the time Pablo Escobar had reached the pinnacle of the cocaine business he was a loved philanthropist by some but a feared narcotic by most.
		Pablo Escobar was a menace to the world and to the lives of many consumers of cocaine, especially in the United States which was the largest cocaine consumer at the time.
		Mark Bowden, the author of Killing Pablo: the hunt for the world’s greatest outlaw, describes the life and death, and the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar.
	www.needfreeessays.com /viewpaper/28437.html (275 words)

	...::: Cineramalatino.com: Los Archivos Privados de Pablo Escobar :::..
		Pablo Escobar is the biggest criminal in the history of Colombia.
		The Private Files of Pablo Escobar, which premiered on February 20, 2004th in various Colombian movie theaters, is the drug lord?s story as told for the first time by his closest family members, with never-before-seen interview footage.
		The Private Files of Pablo Escobar creates controversy wherever it is presented.
	www.cineramalatino.com /sinopsis_english.htm (292 words)

	Pablo Escobar: The King of Coke (2002)
		Pablo Escobar was the biggest cocaine druglord, in the history of Colombia and the United States.
		The documentary traces Escobar's rise to power as a young boy from Medellin.
		When Columbia banned extradition in their constitution, Escobar decided to turn himself in to the justice department, but the twist was he served his time in a prison he built which was more like a resort.
	www.streetgangs.com /movies/pablo.html (235 words)

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