Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria.
born in Antioquia, Colombia; 1 December 1949 Medellin, Colombia, December 2, 1993 was a politician, businessman and Colombian drug trafficker, founder and leader of the Medellin cartel, with the who became the most powerful man in the Colombian mafia. House Representative was assistant to the Congress of the Republic of Colombia for Antioquia in 1982.
With the cocaine trade made the largest fortunes of his country and one of the largest in the world. Dubbed "the Czar of cocaine," his fortune was evaluated between 9000 and 15,000 million in the period. In 1989, Forbes magazine declared Escobar as the seventh richest man in the world, but recent findings have brought home selling drugs that brought him profits of more than 25,000 million5 thus entering the list of the 10 richest people in the history. Such was the situation in 1989 that the drug dealers owned the 20% of the country, 160 of the 1009 municipalities at that time.
The authorities link him to the murder of more than 10 000 people, its main hitman and right arm, Jhon Jairo Vasquez Velasquez, alias Popeye, which links more than 5500 . In the midst of the bloody war that pitted the state since 1984 , his organization was responsible for countless acts of terrorism including the outbreak of 250 bombs and committing dozens of massacres that killed 1142 civilians dead, not counting the thousands of other victims who fell in the crossfire with authorities in Antioquia and Medellin. Additionally was responsible for the killing of 657 police between 1989 and 1993, and of a fierce confrontation with the Cali Cartel, paramilitary Magdalena Medio and finally with Los Pepes.