Escobar became a real legend, he turned out to be one of the most prominent drug lords in history. How rich was he?
Escobar's income
In the mid-eighties, Escobar's cartel was generating $420 million a week, which adds up to about $22 billion a year.
One of the richest people in the world
80 percent
By the end of the eighties, it supplied 80 percent of the world's cocaine.
He smuggled about 15 tons of cocaine daily into the United States of America.
According to journalist Ioan Grillo, the Medellin Cartel moved most of the drugs right across the coast of Florida. “Between the northern coast of Colombia and the coast of Florida as much as one and a half thousand kilometers, and all this time the one who moved along this route was in full view of everyone. The Colombians and their American partners dumped bundles of goods directly into the sea, and speedboats awaiting delivery immediately set off from the coast to them. Sometimes the goods were dumped right on the coast of Florida, ”said Grillo.
King of America
In other words, four out of five Americans who used cocaine used the product supplied by El Patron.
Every month, the King of Cocaine made a $2.1 billion loss, but it didn't matter.
Escobar's incredible wealth became a problem when he couldn't launder money fast enough. According to Roberto Escobar, the cartel's chief accountant and brother of a well-known drug lord, he began burying huge sums of money in Colombian fields, hiding them in dilapidated warehouses and the walls of cartel members' houses. “Pablo made so much that every year we wrote off ten percent of our earnings because the money was eaten by rats in warehouses, water damaged or lost,” he said. Based on how much Escobar earned, ten percent represents $2.1 billion. Escobar just had more money than he could use, so accidental losses due to rodents or mold were not a problem for him.
Every month he spent two and a half thousand dollars on rubber bands.
While the constant need to hide, as well as losing money, was one problem, the brothers faced another, more basic problem - how to organize banknotes neatly? According to Roberto Escobar, the Medellin cartel spent about $2,500 on rubber bands that were used to form bundles of banknotes.
He once lit a two million dollar fire because his daughter was cold.
In 2009, Pablo Escobar's son Juan Pablo, now known as Sebastian Marroquin, described what life on the run was like with the King of Cocaine. According to Marroquin, the family was living in a mountainside shelter in Medellin when Pablo Manuela's daughter suffered an attack of hypothermia. Escobar decided to burn two million dollar bills to keep his daughter warm.
Local Robin Hood
He was nicknamed "Robin Hood" when he gave money to the poor on the streets, built houses for the homeless, created seventy public football fields, and established a zoo.
He made a deal with the Colombian government and agreed to go to prison, but on the condition that he build it himself. This is how Escobar's luxurious prison "La Catedral" appeared.
In 1991, Pablo Escobar was imprisoned in a prison called "La Catedral", which he himself designed. Under the terms of the agreement concluded with the government of Colombia, Escobar could choose who would be imprisoned with him. He was also free to continue his cartel business and receive visitors. The grounds of La Catedral included a soccer field, a barbecue lawn and a patio, and it was also close to another apartment complex he had built for his family. Also, representatives of the Colombian authorities could not drive closer than five kilometers to the prison.
(Spanish: Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, 12/01/1949 - 12/2/1993) is a well-known world terrorist, a Colombian drug lord who earned fabulous money in the drug business and went down in world history as one of the most brutal criminals of the 20th century.
In 1989, according to Forbes magazine, he took the 7th position in the ranking the richest people planets. His personal fortune was $25 billion USD.
According to experts, in total Escobar has about 10 thousand people on his conscience. human lives. However, he was a criminal with a code of honor. For example, it was at his expense that numerous football fields for children were built in Medellin, as well as a whole quarter for the poor.
Childhood
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born in 1949, 40 km. from (Spanish Medellín) - the city of Rionegro (Spanish Rionegro) of the department of Antioquia (Spanish Antioquia), .
He became the third child in a normal peasant family. Little Pablo loved to listen to heroic stories about the legendary Colombian "banditos" (Spanish banditos): how they robbed the rich, helping the poor. As a child, he decided that he would definitely become just such a “bandito” when he grew up. Who would have thought that in a couple of decades romantic dreams little boy turn into a national nightmare.
Beginning of criminal activity
When Pablo was 12 years old, the family moved to the suburbs of Medellin, the town of Envigado. The teenager soon became addicted to marijuana. And at the age of 16, the future drug lord was expelled from school. From that day on, Pablo began his career as a bandito, stealing tombstones from the local cemetery for resale. Next, by creating Not large group, he took up stealing expensive cars and selling them for parts. Then Escobar had another "brilliant" idea: he offered his protection to potential victims of theft. Those who refused to pay the gang soon lost their "steel horse" - it was a real racket.
Further, from theft and racketeering, Pablo moved on to commit more serious crimes- kidnappings and murders. By the age of 21, Pablo had many associates. The crimes of the Escobar group became more and more ruthless, cruel and sophisticated.
El Patron
In 1971, Pablo Escobar's gang kidnapped Diego Echevario, a wealthy Colombian landowner and industrialist, who was killed after extensive torture. This villainy was enthusiastically received by the local poor peasants who hated Echevario. The poor of Medellin celebrated the death of Diego Echevario and, in gratitude, began to respectfully call Escobar " El Doctor"(Spanish: El Doctor). Meanwhile, "El Doctor" has intercepted the production of cocaine from the Chileans, turning it into a fabulous profitable business, on which he became fantastically rich, becoming one of the major criminal authorities in Medellin, and his rating in the city grew day by day. It was at that time that the young "El Doctor" became " El Patronom”(Spanish“ El Patron ”), and with this nickname he lived until his death.
Pablo Escobar - drug lord
The new generation of American hippies of the 70s. no longer satisfied with one marijuana. It took a new, stronger drug - cocaine. On it, Pablo Escobar began to build his criminal business. He bought cocaine from manufacturers, then resold it to smugglers for shipment to the United States. The lack of "brakes", Pablo's constant willingness to kill, manic cruelty - all this put him out of competition. When rumors about some lucrative criminal business reached Escobar, he simply seized it by force. Anyone who stood in his way, at least somehow threatening his activities, immediately disappeared without a trace. Soon he ran almost the entire cocaine business in the country: without his permission, not a single drug dealer could take his goods out of the country, he removed a 35% tax on each consignment of cocaine, ensuring its delivery. Escobar's drug career was more than successful - "El Patron" literally bathed in money, finally losing all respect for the law.
In 1976, Pablo was caught trying to smuggle a consignment of cocaine, and a few years later the police officer who arrested him and the judge who issued the arrest warrant were killed on his orders.
Personal life or Women of Escobar
In 1974, when Pablo Escobar was 24, he began dating 13-year-old Maria Victoria Eneo Viejo (Spanish: Maria Victoria Henao Vellejo). When the girl's parents tried to separate them, the couple fled to Palmyra. In March 1976, the young people got married, and soon, when Maria was not even 15 years old, they had a son, and after another 3.5 years, their beloved daughter.
Since that time, the patron has become vulnerable, because the family is always a hindrance in the conduct of criminal cases.
Throughout his life, Escobar had a huge number of extramarital affairs. He was famous for his love of pedophilia, giving preference to underage girls. Especially for young virgins. It is known for certain that the drug lord had more than 400 mistresses, in fact, concubines. A whole small closed town was built for them. Each of his mistresses (among whom were actresses, winners of beauty contests and fashion models) had a personal cottage with a swimming pool, fountains, various porticos and exquisite gazebos, each house was unique in architectural design and landscape design.
For the first time in Colombia, an official of such a high rank was killed by bandits. From that day on, the terror of the drug mafia began to spread throughout the country, to which the state responded with a total war.
Terrorism
Pablo Ecobar created the terrorist group “Los Extraditables” (Spanish: “Los Extraditables”), whose gangsters raided officials and policemen - everyone who was against the drug trade.
After the daring assassination of the minister, a warrant was issued for the arrest of the drug lord. Therefore, he was forced to "lay low."
To show that he was not broken, Escobar hired a large group of guerrillas to carry out sabotage, arming them with machine guns, grenades and portable rocket launchers. Saboteurs, suddenly appearing in the center of the capital, captured the Palace of Justice, inside of which there were several hundred people. The partisans opened fire indiscriminately, destroyed all the documents relating to the extradition of criminals from the drug mafia. Large forces of the army and police were urgently introduced into Bogotá. But only the assault battalions, supported by tanks and combat helicopters, managed to recapture the Palace of Justice, with more than 100 people killed.
Meanwhile, the authorities continued their offensive against the drug cartel. In 1986, an operation began to search for one of the leaders of the drug cartel (Spanish Jorge Luis Ochoa), who offered $ 4 million in reward for the murder of American Ambassador Tambs. For 10 days, about 2.5 thousand people were arrested in the country, 2 tons of cocaine, 10 tons of coca paste, 48 tons of coca leaves, 11 aircraft, more than 200 automatic weapons, 38 thousand cartridges, 11 tons of acetone, 100 tons of various chemicals, 1 thousand sticks of dynamite.
In 1987, a US court sentenced one of the bosses of the Medellin Cartel (Spanish Carlos Lehder) to life imprisonment and another 135 years.
Even while in hiding, Pablo Escobar unleashed global terror in the country in order to show everyone who is the real boss here. In less than 2 years, the number of victims of mercenaries reached 1,000 people. Among them were judges, journalists who opposed the drug mafia, and about 600 police officers. On the orders of a drug lord who bit the bit, an airliner was blown up with 107 passengers on board. Escobar's target was (Spanish: César Gaviria Trujillo), the future President of Colombia, who was going to fly this flight, but at the last moment canceled the flight. During the assassination attempt on the head of the secret police Miguel Marquez, organized by El Patrón on December 6, 1989, more than 62 people died from a bomb explosion, 100 people were seriously injured.
War declared on the Colombian drug mafia
The US authorities joined the war with the Colombian drug mafia, who offered to send drug lords to be kept in their prisons, where the ransom was excluded. Thanks to the American financial assistance, law enforcement Colombia managed to organize a counterattack on the cocaine cartel, then as a result of only one operation, 989 houses and farms, 367 aircraft, 710 cars, 5 tons of cocaine and 1279 units were confiscated from Escobar military weapons. For every blow of the government, the criminal cartel responded with a counterattack: arson of houses, murders of political officials, explosions of party headquarters, publishing houses, banks. So, in September 1989, the central point of the liberal newspaper El Espectador (Spanish: El Espectador) was blown up, in November a plane flying from Bogota to Bogotá burned down, and on Christmas Eve the headquarters of the state police in the country's capital was blown up. Before the elections, the terror of the cocaine cartel acquired an unprecedented scale: dozens of people were killed by killers every day.
The Colombian drug lord topped the U.S. most wanted list. He was hunted by an elite special unit, which was faced with the task of catching or destroying Escobar. The Colombian authorities created a "Special Search Group", which included the best specialists from the special services, the army and the prosecutor's office. Soon, several people close to him were behind bars.
Escobar's gang took several hostages influential people countries. The drug lord believed that under pressure from wealthy relatives of the kidnapped, the government would cancel the agreement with the United States on the extradition of drug dealers. The plan of the drug king was a success, the extradition was canceled. But, surrounded on all sides, on June 19, 1991, he himself surrendered to the authorities. Pablo Escobar agreed to plead guilty to only a few crimes, on the condition that he be forgiven for his past sins.
Conclusion behind bars
Even the punishment turned out to be not quite ordinary: the most cruel terrorist in the world was serving time in the prison "" (Spanish: La Catedral), which he built by himself, where there was a swimming pool, a disco, a jacuzzi, a sauna, and even a large football field. The patron was visited by friends, close associates and women, and the family visited Escobar at any time. At the same time, the “Special Group” did not have the right to approach “La Catedral” closer than 20 km. He himself went and came when he pleased, regularly visiting Medellin nightclubs, restaurants and football matches.
Moreover, Pablo Escobar was still in charge of the drug business. There was a case when one day, having learned that the partners were “ratting” money from him, he ordered his henchmen to bring them to “La Catedral”, where he personally subjected the guilty to sophisticated tortures, drilling the victims’ knees and pulling out their nails, then giving the order to kill them and take the bodies away.
Prison "La Catedral"
The escape
When these facts became public, on July 22, 1992, President Gaviria gave the order to transfer the cocaine baron to a real prison. When Pablo Escobar found out about this decision, he decided that he had already "seen enough" and fled. But there were few places where he could find refuge for himself. The Colombian and US governments were determined to end the Medellín cocaine cartel and its leader, and his friends were leaving him. However, Pablo continued to consider himself more significant figure than it actually was. He still had enormous financial resources, but he had already lost real power. The drug lord tried to negotiate with the government by making a deal with justice. But the President of Colombia and the US authorities did not want to enter into negotiations with him and decided to catch and eliminate Escobar.
A $10 million bounty has been placed on the cocaine king's head. It was an amount equal to the salary of the President of Colombia for almost 200 years! At that time, it was the largest reward for the capture of a criminal.
Meanwhile, while at large, the drug lord made another attempt to intimidate the government with brutal terror. On January 30, 1993, he organized an explosion on a crowded street in the capital. As a result of the attack, more than 20 people were killed and about 70 were seriously injured.
Hunt for El Patron
With this merciless terrorist attack, the drug lord brought disaster on himself - a new organization "" ("People affected by P.E.") entered the fight against him. The day after the bombing in Bogotá, members of Los Pepes burned down Pablo Escobar's house. Relatives of the victims, on his orders, began to hunt for members of the drug cortel and his relatives. They acted as brutally as the cocaine mafia, catching up on her with a thorough fear.
Los Pepes began to persecute everyone who was in any way connected with Escobar and his cocaine empire: they were simply killed. Behind a short time organization has dealt great damage cartel, many of his close associates were killed, opponents pursued the drug lord's family, burned his estates. In the fall of 1993, the Medellin cartel collapsed. Pablo himself was more worried, he was seriously alarmed, because if the family was discovered, Los Pepes would destroy it without sparing anyone.
The Death of Pablo Escobar or the End of an Era of the Cocaine King
Hiding, he did not see his wife and children for more than a year, and, knowing about the constant surveillance, he spoke extremely briefly even on the phone. On December 1, 1993, El Patron turned 44 years old, and this time he lost his nerve: the next day, December 2, 1993, he called his family, as if he wanted to say goodbye. The last person he spoke to was his son, they stayed on the line for almost 5 minutes, twice as long as the security measures required. This time was enough to detect Escobar in the Los Olibos district of Medellin.
Soon the house where he was hiding was surrounded by special agents, two of them knocked out the door, bursting inside. former ringleader Colombian drug mafia knew they were coming. But it all happened so fast that he didn't even have time to put on his shoes. In the house were Pablo Escobar himself, his devoted sicario Alvaro de Jesus Agudelo(Spanish Alvaro de Jesús Agudelo) nicknamed Lemon (Spanish El limón), who was killed first, and the owner of the house is the drug lord's own aunt. Shooting back, Pablo climbed out the window, trying to get away from the persecution on the roofs. A sniper's (or El Patron's own | not proven) bullet caught up with him, hitting him in the head. The drug lord died instantly. The rest immediately climbed onto the roof to take a picture with an expensive “trophy”, later this photo spread around the world.
The scene of his death was depicted in a famous painting by the Colombian painter.
« Better grave in Colombia than a prison in the US” © Pablo Escobar
On December 3, 1993, thousands of Colombians took to the streets of Medellin. Someone came to mourn him, and someone rejoiced.
But today, when asked who Pablo Escobar was, not one of the inhabitants of the slums in Medellin will say a bad word about him. Although the patron was one of the most notorious terrorists and cruel criminals on the planet. His portraits are sold alongside portraits. In some places he is venerated as a saint, and pilgrimages are still made to his grave. The legend of the "King of Cocaine" is one of the main reasons for Medellin's tourist success, and its museum is visited by tens of thousands of tourists every year.
Today, many are interested in the question, Where is Pablo Escobar buried?? His grave located in the Montesacro cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de Montesacro) in the south of Medellin. Dozens of people visit Escobar's grave every day. Many of them leave lit candles or notes for Pablo at its base. And someone and cigarettes with marijuana. It is said that some people often come here to use a dose of cocaine, rolling paths of white powder right on the drug lord's gravestone. By the way, Escobar's grave is guarded around the clock. The reason is not only vandals who can desecrate the grave, but also in large numbers bone hunters "Cocaine King". Moreover, there have already been similar cases when various groups of people tried several times to dig out the remains of Pablo Escobar from the ground.
Pablo's grave
Narcos
In 2015, the American film studio Netflix released the sensational television series Narcos. Its plot, of course, focuses on Escobar's rise to power as head of the Medellin cartel.
The role of Pablo was played by a Brazilian theater and film actor. Wagner Manisoba de Moura(port. Wagner Manicoba de Moura).
In September 2016, the second season of the series was released.
Some Rules for Escobar's Life
(Quotes from the statements of the drug lord and excerpts from his suicide letter)
- I'm a modest person, I'm just exporting flowers.
- Those who have something to say are often silent.
- I know that many people find my lifestyle to be excessive. But what should I do with my money?
- In this life I can find a replacement for any thing. But I will NEVER be able to find a replacement for my wife and children.
- Every person is a saint for someone.
- Although many say that I am a terrorist, I have always acted like a man of duty. I believe that every person should fight for his family and his property. And if he needs a weapon for this, so be it.
- You can call me God! After all, if I decide that someone is destined to die, he will die on the same day.
- For some reason, many people forget how much I have done for the poor. I am very proud to have been called the Robin Hood of all Paisas (Northwest Colombians). Even government officials cannot deny that I have done more for the poor than all of them put together in all their worthless lives.
- I would rather rot in Colombian soil than live in a US prison.
- America is 200 million idiots led by 1 million special agents.
- All empires are always built on blood and fire.
- There is nothing worse than a person in power who has personal problems.
- Everything in the world has its price, and the most important thing is the ability to correctly determine it.
- In our world, money is NEVER clean.
- I did not earn my fortune and achieve power in order to exist like a rat.
- Every year it becomes more and more difficult to foresee the future.
- Never trust anyone, but especially yourself.
- There is nothing more valuable than this promise. There is nothing more shameful than breaking it.
- The best way to deal with your enemies is to simply stop noticing them.
- No creature can ever catch me, I can kill them all.
- Death cannot be deceived, but it can be made friends with.
drug lord Pablo Escobar built while still alive Hacienda Napoles estate as a monument to his greatness. Even 22 years after his death, this gigantic estate is as alive as ever. Several people take care of it. And he also talks about this and about the life of a drug lord crime drama"Narcos" (Narcos, from Spanish - Drug Dealers), which has become so popular lately.
Colombian police pose in front of the entrance to former place residence of the drug lord Pablo Escobar
Speaks Robin Hartmann
We are writing about 1978, when the then 30-year-old man began his incredible career death, and during which thousands of innocent people passed away. And thanks to this, he became one of the richest and most powerful people in the world: Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria at that time, he stood only at the beginning of his career as the future terrible drug lord of all times and peoples. He was also responsible for numerous illegal shops and murders. It was already clear earlier that El Patron de Mal(in German: Mister Evil) or El Capo, as he was already called, is a man in whose hands is all the power that he needs. Namely, when and where he needs it.
Shot from the series "Narco"
Was filmed film about life Pablo Escobar , in particular, the series "Narco" with Wagner Moura starring.
Naturally, such a man needed a home. His flamboyant and unambiguous manner and image represent his dominance and everyone else should understand this: he is the Boss! At Escobaro there was a small private property in Puerto Triunfo. The land plot is surrounded by a fence and its area is almost 3000 hectares. Immediately after purchase "Hacienda Napolis" construction work started there. Then already Escobar owned immense financial condition and could afford to build there: an airplane runway, an unimaginable number of luxury apartments for famous guests, more than 20 artificially created lakes, a heliport, an aircraft hangar, horse quarters, a dino park and his own bullring. Today, all of this is part of a theme park.
This complex also includes "Afrikanisches Museum"
1700 employees and a private zoo
Soon, ten luxury residential buildings were built throughout the complex, in which about 1,700 employees lived. Escobar and his business partners. The cost of Hacienda was at one time estimated at over $60 million. Legend has it that he owns a 1934 Chevrolet Modell on display in which a gangster couple was allegedly shot dead. Bonnie and Clyde. It was also known that Escobar honored them both. In addition, the property Escobar there was an exotic arboretum with rare palm trees and other plants.
Car park Escobar
Former truck fleet Pablo Escobaro started to rust. There is not small amount people who are firmly convinced to this day that the rock group Rolling Stones ( Rolling Stones) once performed at Hocienda Napolis. However, this rumor has never been officially confirmed, but this myth has made a certain contribution.
Car park Escobar
All this megalomania was fully reflected in private hobbies, in which Escobar invested millions of dollars private zoo, filled with giraffes, rhinos, elephants, kangaroos, camels and hippos - just to name a few of the many species that live there.
These flamingos walk proudly through Escobar's private zoo and were soon relocated to the Santafe Zoo in the city. Medellin
Friendly junkie needed ideas El Capo, divulged the son Escobar after the death of his father, who today calls himself Sebastian Marroquin. At the time, there were such visible extravagant norms under the Colombian drug lord. But here's the absurdity: a private zoo Escobar was founded after one purchase in the United States of America (Vereinigten Staaten). “My father negotiated with the owners of the zoo in Dallas, Texas (Dallas, Texas),” says younger son Escobar, "he paid these people two million dollars in cash and a short time later the animals were sent."
Colombian journalist Juan Felipe Lopez Lara explains why under the noses of the city authorities such bandits as Escobar could lead such an extravagant and conspicuous life without fear of being searched by the police:
Drug dealers then ruled the whole country, they ruled both the politics and the economy of the whole of Colombia. It was an era of pure anarchy, they controlled almost everything, from the fate of states to sports.
That's how Escobar even bought out the South American football competition Copa Libertadores (Copa Libertadores) in 1989 to see how his favorite team wins. "Club Atletico Nacional in the city of Medellin" (Club Atletico Nacional de Medellin).
Pablo Escobar opened his zoo to the public
And again a little about Hacienda Napolis, who, during her lifetime, Escobar bequeathed to future generations. As soon as all construction work was completed on the estate and his private zoo was fully equipped and all animals were delivered there, Pablo Escobar did something very unexpected! Rather than fence off his own property and retire there, he opened the whole territory to the public and gave everyone who entered the opportunity to use their dose of courage there and appease their curiosity.
My son, this zoo is here for the public.
this is how the drug lord explained his decision to the children.
As long as I'm alive, no one here will have to pay to enter. I love that poor people can just come and marvel at the wonders of nature
There were crowds of people. Initial time to visit the zoo Escobaro was calculated as 10 minutes per person, but soon due to huge crowds, the waiting time was increased to two hours.
In his book "Pablo Escobaro is my father" Sebastian Marroquin recounts how he saved an injured deer from his fate both times: “He let me take his Sieg Sauer P-226 pistol and helped me aim. However, it took me three tries because I was very scared and my hands were shaking."
The era of the king of drugs did not last so long: Escobar Of course, he felt like the favorites of little people and the crowd, he always acted boldly, boldly and mercilessly. Thousands of people died in this drug war. It seemed that Colombia lost in this fight against the mighty Escobaro. AND USA insisted that the man who filled their entire country with cocaine receive American capital punishment. The truth meanwhile Escobar a deal with the authorities was granted and he was sent behind bars, to a prison that looked like a luxury hotel inside. He built this prison himself. After the escape attempt, it became clear that only the death of state enemy number one would provide a small respite in this drug war and the US would calm down after that.
The shot was fired by an elite group of Colombian and American police officers. federal service for drug control. His Hacienda Napolis estate was confiscated. "The Colombian state and the narcotics service got the whole estate at the time," says the journalist Lopez Lara.
After Escobaro's death , Hacienda is gradually being destroyed
In the next few decades, such an elegant and pompous place collapsed quite badly: the robbers took with them everything they could carry, nature again took all its strength and the entire Hacienda began to slowly collapse before our eyes and become covered with destructive greenery. Surprising changes were taking place with the once brilliant private zoo. Even during his lifetime Escobaro many hippopotamuses, which were brought by him, ran away. He brought them because the smell of their fertilizer covered the smell of drugs.
Pablo Escobar hippos 
Pablo Escobar hippos
Hippos were imported from Pablo Escobaro and are now enjoying freedom: hippos are close to Hacienda Napolis.
“Today we try to find all the animals in the area,” explains Lopez Lara. These are the only living hippos living outside of Africa (Afrika). How large their population is, no one can say for sure. Some say that they number about 70 individuals, while others, on the contrary, argue that we are talking O more animals. It is a fact that hippos are doing well in Colombia and their numbers are steadily increasing. Here them sex life much more active than their counterparts in Africa.
According to the BBC company (BBC), animals in this area suffer greatly: they scare the fish, devour the entire crop and occasionally kill livestock. Probably, Pablo Escobaro this place was a great pleasure, and so now it says that Colombia simply did not give a damn about the soul of Pablo already 20 years after his death.
Today Hacienda Napolis it is again a zoo and a tourist theme park with hotels and attractions. Travel portal TripAdvisor (Tripadvisor) awarded him a certificate of quality in 2014 thanks not only to animals, but also to the fact that you can plunge into the world of a person who, thanks to his career as a criminal, got into Forbes list(Forbes) as one of the richest people in the world.
Today estate Escobaro it is an art museum showing the life stages of a drug lord.
At the entrance, at the gate, you can see a small plane that brought the first contraband shipment of cocaine into the United States. Inside the complex, visitors can walk through the water park and enjoy the dino park, which Escobaro built for his son. And of course, you can learn a lot about yourself Escobaro, about the man whose death all Colombia needed so much.
Life Pablo Escobaro has been filmed many times last time in the series "Narcos" with a Brazilian actor Wagner Moura starring. The series is currently available to watch on Netflix.
He became a father for the second time - his daughter Manuela was born. Soon the Colombian bought a luxurious mansion in the city of Guatape in the north of the country and named it after the newborn. The manor "La Manuela" was one of his favorites, and now turned into ruins, on which people with pseudo-weapons jump.
A luxurious villa on eight hectares of land (for understanding, this is 800 acres, or about 133 typical summer cottages in the Moscow region) is unrecognizable: after the death of the cocaine king, it fell into disrepair. No one needed luxury real estate.
The estate was built to last: double walls, in the space between which money and drugs were stored, a swimming pool, a guest house, a pier, a tennis court, a football field - it was sometimes used as a helipad. The owner, who had the status of the wealthiest criminal in the world, did not deny himself anything.
This dacha idyll did not last long - Escobar was shot dead by the police in 1993, and La Manuela was blown up even before that by members of Los Pepes, a Colombian armed group consisting of ardent opponents of the drug lord. They laid no less than 200 kilograms of TNT in one of the rooms of the main mansion.
After the explosion, little was left of the building, but the auxiliary buildings survived. Over the next decades, they were empty, gradually falling into disrepair. The walls were partially painted and scribbled by vandals.
Untouched was the view of the beautiful Pegnol mountain reservoir.
To the estate long years no one was allowed in, and then the “bad villa” was chosen by paintball players. Where else to shoot, if not here?
Those who want to try on the roles of policemen, soldiers, militants or criminals who shoot back pay 170 thousand Colombian pesos (about 3.7 thousand rubles) for a full day of playing tough confrontation.
This rusty car is also Escobar's legacy. For some reason, it was not stolen and not dismantled for parts.
Other property was less fortunate - they dragged everything that survived. The walls in the buildings were broken to find treasures hidden by mafiosi - the same cocaine or money.
Nobody plays football here for a long time. There are no helicopters in sight either.
The guys, according to the caption under the photo, are desperately trying to reconstruct a typical party in Escobar's house. It turns out badly: no naked women, no white powder, no carpet of banknotes.
By the way, a bar was recently opened on the territory - you need to drink and feed crowds of people who want to play mafia.
Who said paintball is not for women?
Today, the former estate of Escobar belongs to the state. At the same time, the butler who worked for the criminal is actively trying to sue him. As told to the publication Daily Mail one of local residents, the man claims that he has looked after the estate for 20 years, and therefore now has all property rights.
Escobar's daughter, in whose honor the estate was named, of course, does not claim it. After the death of her father, she was taken to Argentina, her mother changed her name and surname to avoid possible persecution.
10 Crazy Facts About The Cocaine King's Even Crazier Money
The "cocaine king" was the son of a poor Colombian farmer, but by the age of 35 he became one of the richest people in the world. Despite his humble origins, Pablo Escobar led the Medellin drug cartel, which was responsible for 80% of the global cocaine market. El Patron's weekly income was approximately $420 million, making him one of the richest drug lords in history.
It is impossible to give an accurate assessment of Escobar's fortune due to the fact that this is drug money, but experts give estimates of up to $ 30 billion.
1. In the mid-1980s, Escobar's cartel was bringing in about $420 million a week - almost $22 billion a year.
2. Escobar was included in the list of international Forbes billionaires. In 1989, he ranked seventh on the list of the richest people in the world.
3. By the end of the 1980s, he was responsible for supplying 80% of the world's cocaine.
4. Every day he smuggled into the US about 15 tons of cocaine.
According to journalist Jon Grillo, the Medellin cartel shipped most of its cocaine directly to the coast of Florida. Grillo writes:
“It was a run of one and a half thousand kilometers from the northern coast of Colombia, and nothing interfered with it. Colombians and their American accomplices drop cargo directly into the sea, where it will be picked up and delivered to shore in speedboats, or even fly all the way to Florida and dump cocaine somewhere in the wilderness.”
Escobar with his son, Juan Pablo, in front of the White House in 1981
5. In other words, out of five Americans who use cocaine, four snorted El Patron.
6. The Cocaine King lost $2.1 billion every year, but he didn't care much.
Escobar's vast wealth became a problem when he couldn't launder the money fast enough. Like Roberto Escobar Chief Accountant cartel and brother of a drug lord, said in his book The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel, he stockpiled cash in stacks in the Colombian wilderness - in dilapidated warehouses, and in the walls homes of cartel members:
“Pablo made so much money that every year we wrote off 10% of his fortune because the rats ate the money in the vault, water damaged it, or it just got lost.”
Considering how much the drug lord was estimated to be earning, that means a loss of $2.1 billion annually. Pablo Escobar had a lot more money than he could spend, and losing it to rodents and mold didn't bother him.
7. Medellin spent $2,500 on rubber bands every month.
Hiding and destroying huge sums of money is one thing, but the brothers are faced with another, more mundane task: organizing and storing cash. According to Roberto Escobar, Medellin spent $2,500 a month on rubber bands to tie stacks of banknotes.
8. Escobar once burned $2 million because his daughter was cold.
In a 2009 interview with Don Juan magazine, Ecobar's 38-year-old son Juan Pablo, who changed his name to Sebastian Marroquin, spoke about what it's like to live with the "Cocaine King".
According to Marrokin, the family was in a hideout on the slopes of Mount Medellin when Ecobar's daughter's body temperature plummeted - and Escobar mercilessly burned crisp $2 million worth of banknotes to keep Manuela warm.
Pablo Escobar with his wife Maria Victoria, son Juan Pablo and daughter Manuela
9. Escobar was nicknamed "Robin Hood" for giving money to the poor, building houses for the homeless, founding 70 football fields and a zoo.
10. He made a deal with Colombia to be put in a luxurious prison, which he built himself and called La Catedral - "the cathedral."
In 1991, Escobar was imprisoned in a prison of his own design called La Catedral. In accordance with an agreement concluded with the Colombian government, Escobar had the right to choose who would serve his sentence in the same prison or work in it. In addition, he could continue to run the cartel business and receive visitors.
La Catedral is equipped with a football field, a barbecue area and a patio. In addition, nearby Escobar built a building for his entire family. Representatives of the Colombian authorities were forbidden to approach the prison closer than five kilometers.
Escobar with his top hitman Popeye at La Catedral
Pablo Escobar wishes Kharkiv citizens a Happy New Year.
Elimination of Pablo Escobar
And now the abandoned villa itself:
The “King of Cocaine” was the son of a poor Colombian farmer, but by the age of 35 he had become one of the richest people in the world, earning up to $420 million a week.
At the height of his power, sad famous boss The Medellin cartel, also called "El Patron", controlled up to 80% of the world cocaine market. He also owned a number of impressive properties.
Take a look at just one of his abandoned villas on an island off the coast of Colombia.
The 27 small coral islands of Islas del Rosario are located 22 miles from the port of Cartagena in Colombia.
Escobar built his massive villa on the waterfront of the largest island - Isla Grande.
In the neighborhood of Escobar's mansion, there are approximately 800 islanders who are engaged in fishing and agriculture.
Now, 22 years after Escobar's death, the estate is lush with vegetation...
