The rise of his cocaine-trafficking organisation, the Medellin cartel, triggered a period of mayhem unprecedented even by the standards of Colombia’s modern history.
There are passages in this biography written by Pablo’s brother and chief accountant, Roberto, that are jaw-dropping, especially when detailing the sheer ingenuity required in smuggling hundreds of tons annually into America and Europe. At first, simply packing the drug in aircraft tyres was effective. But as the cocaine craze began to grip the nightclubs of New York, Miami and LA, the inventiveness of the Medellin cartel reached new heights.
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The Sunday Times
Escobar by Roberto Escobar - Book
Apr 08 -- In the museum of organised crime, Pablo Escobar deserves a room of his own. He was the first gangster billionaire, listed by Forbes magazine in 1989 as the world’s seventh richest man; in the late 1980s he offered to pay Colombia’s national debt as a way of fending off the ever-present threat of extradition to America.
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