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Club Medellín Pablo Escobar was already on the run for quite some time when he reached an agreement with the Colombian government in 1991 to go to prison for a maximum of five years, without risking to get extradited to the United States. In this agreement Escobar managed to agree on some extreme measurements in his favor. For example the prison, La Catadral, was built to his specifications and he was given the right to choose who would guard the prison. The guards he chose were of course the...

128482: Pablo Escobar

Pablo Escobar is undoubtedly the most powerful drug trafficker of the 80s and early 90s. He was head of The Medellín cartel and a well-known Colombian criminal who was born on 1st December 1949 in Rionegro, Colombia. A few of his nicknames were: “El Patrón” and “The king of Cocaine”. In his youth he started his criminal career with selling illegal cigarettes and fake lottery tickets. Later in the early 1970s, he started working for drug criminals and kidnapped people for ransom. In 1976 Pablo...