Pablo Escobar Documentary - Medellin Cartel - El Patron #PabloEscobar

Rare 1995 documentary about Pablo Escobar & the Medellin cartel.

Lots of unseen footage of the Colombian drug lord the hit series Narcos was based on.

Pablo Escobar was born in Rionegro, Colombia in 1949. His father was a farmer, and his mother was a schoolteacher.

Escobar was responsible for killing about 4,000 people, including an estimated 200 judges and 1,000 police, journalists, and government officials.

In the 1980s, Escobar's Medellin cartel was responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine that was sent to the United States.

Escobar spent around $2,500 a month on rubber bands used to hold his money.

Escobar's earnings peaked at an estimated 30 billion dollars.

Escobar made the Forbes' billionaires list of the world's richest people seven years in a row beginning in 1987 and peaked at number seven in 1989.

At the height of the drug trade, Escobar smuggled up to 15 tons of cocaine each day.

Despite his horrific business dealings, Escobar did fund a number of programs to help Colombia's poor residents. He gave money to churches and hospitals, established food programs, built parks and football stadiums, and created a barrio.

Pablo Escobar was gunned down at the age of 44. Some people speculate that the wound was self-inflicted.

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