Pablo Escobar was a renowned Colombian drug trafficker and politician who was born in 1949 in Medellín, Colombia and died in 1993. During the 1970s and 1980s, he founded and led the Medellin Cartel, consolidating a vast criminal empire that made him the most powerful man in the Colombian mafia and one of the richest men in the world, with a fortune estimated between $25-30 billion according to Forbes magazine for seven consecutive years.

1. Pablo Escobar

2. Who was Pablo Escobar?
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born
in Rionegro, Antioquia on December 1,
1949 in Medellín and died in Antioquia
on December 2, 1993. He was a
renowned Colombian drug trafficker
and politician, founder and leader of
the Medellin Cartel.

3. During this decade he managed to
consolidate his criminal empire,
making him the most powerful man in
the Colombian mafia, accumulating an
immense fortune, which ranged from
25,000 to 30,000 million Of dollars,
thus consecrating him as one of the
richest men in the world according to
Forbes magazine for seven
consecutive years.