Pablo Escobar Born: Colombia's Drug Lord Rises
Pablo Escobar built the Medellin cartel into the world's largest cocaine empire, amassing an estimated $30 billion fortune while waging open war against the Colombian state. His reign of terror, which included bombings of civilian airliners and assassinations of presidential candidates, destabilized an entire nation before his death in a 1993 rooftop shootout.
December 1, 1949
77 years ago
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