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On 2 December 1993, '''Pablo Escobar''', the wealthiest drug kingpin the world has ever seen, attempted to flee from a hideout in his home base of Medellín, [[Colombia]], by scrambling across a neighbouring rooftop.
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'''Pablo Escobar''' was a drug kingpin who ran the [[Medellín drug cartel]] for the [[CIA]].<ref>https://thefreethoughtproject.com/escobar-son-cia-cocaine/</ref> In 1989, ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine listed him as the seventh-richest man in the world.<ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9252490</ref>
  
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Instead, he was cut down by gunfire, and the resulting image has been seared into the public memory — the bloody corpse of the world’s most powerful drug lord splayed across a tile roof in the city that was once his safest redoubt.<ref>[http://uk.businessinsider.com/who-killed-notorious-drug-kingpin-pablo-escobar-heres-what-we-know-2015-9 "'Nobody is ever going to tell you': 3 theories regarding who killed 'The King of Cocaine' Pablo Escobar"]</ref>
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==CIA drug dealing==
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In 2017, his son, [[Juan Pablo Escobar]], revealed that his father worked for the [[CIA]] selling [[cocaine]] to finance the fight against [[communism]] in [[Central America]]. There are names like [[George Bush Sr.]] there and so many more," he said.<ref>https://www.sol915.com.ar/nueva-revelacion-del-hijo-de-pablo-escobar-mi-papa-trabajaba-para-la-cia/</ref>
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==Amnesty efforts==
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In 2016, [[Christopher Woody]] of ''[[Business Insider]]'' wrote that the [[Medellin cartel]] had contacted [[Jeb Bush]] seeking an amnesty for to Pablo Escobar, believing that Jeb would ask [[GHWB|his father]] for an amnesty. He cites [[Patrick Clawson]] and [[Rensselaer Lee]]'s 1996 book, ''[[The Andean Cocaine Industry]]'' that "In 1988, the drug lords reportedly attempted to hire the services of the New York firm [[Kissinger and Associates]] to mount a public relations campaign on behalf of the proposed trafficker-government accord."<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/pablo-escobar-medellin-cartel-jeb-bush-extradition</ref>
  
 
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Assisted by US special forces, US Army intelligence, as well as members of the [[CIA]] and [[DEA]], the Search Bloc pursued Escobar throughout 1992 and 1993. According to official accounts, it was the Search Bloc that ultimately killed Escobar.
 
Assisted by US special forces, US Army intelligence, as well as members of the [[CIA]] and [[DEA]], the Search Bloc pursued Escobar throughout 1992 and 1993. According to official accounts, it was the Search Bloc that ultimately killed Escobar.
  
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On 2 December 1993, he attempted to flee from a hideout in his home base of Medellín, [[Colombia]], by scrambling across a neighbouring rooftop, but was cut down by gunfire, and the resulting image has been seared into the public memory — the bloody corpse of the world’s most powerful drug lord splayed across a tile roof in the city that was once his safest redoubt.<ref>[http://uk.businessinsider.com/who-killed-notorious-drug-kingpin-pablo-escobar-heres-what-we-know-2015-9 "'Nobody is ever going to tell you': 3 theories regarding who killed 'The King of Cocaine' Pablo Escobar"]</ref>
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Person.png Pablo Escobar SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Drug trafficker, criminal, spook?)
Pablo Escobar.jpg
Escobar circa. 1980
BornPablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria
1 December 1949
Antioquia, Colombia
Died2 December 1993 (Age 44)
Medellín, Colombia
Cause of death
"Shot While Trying to Escape"
Victim ofassassination
Supposed perpetrator ofAvianca Flight 203
Drug kingpin who ran the Medellín drug cartel for the CIA.

Pablo Escobar was a drug kingpin who ran the Medellín drug cartel for the CIA.[1] In 1989, Forbes magazine listed him as the seventh-richest man in the world.[2]

CIA drug dealing

The Mercenary Pilot - Ep2: : From CIA to Pablo Escobar - Adventure War on Drugs

In 2017, his son, Juan Pablo Escobar, revealed that his father worked for the CIA selling cocaine to finance the fight against communism in Central America. There are names like George Bush Sr. there and so many more," he said.[3]

Amnesty efforts

In 2016, Christopher Woody of Business Insider wrote that the Medellin cartel had contacted Jeb Bush seeking an amnesty for to Pablo Escobar, believing that Jeb would ask his father for an amnesty. He cites Patrick Clawson and Rensselaer Lee's 1996 book, The Andean Cocaine Industry that "In 1988, the drug lords reportedly attempted to hire the services of the New York firm Kissinger and Associates to mount a public relations campaign on behalf of the proposed trafficker-government accord."[4]

Search Bloc

In late 1989, after a series of bloody humiliations dealt by Escobar to the forces and officials of the Colombian government, the then-President Virgilio Barco created a special police unit to deal with the kingpin and his cartel.

While its initial encounters with the Medellín network left the Bloque de Búsqueda, or Search Bloc, dazed and weakened, it eventually became a hardened task force that hunted down Escobar and his associates.

Assisted by US special forces, US Army intelligence, as well as members of the CIA and DEA, the Search Bloc pursued Escobar throughout 1992 and 1993. According to official accounts, it was the Search Bloc that ultimately killed Escobar.

Murder

On 2 December 1993, he attempted to flee from a hideout in his home base of Medellín, Colombia, by scrambling across a neighbouring rooftop, but was cut down by gunfire, and the resulting image has been seared into the public memory — the bloody corpse of the world’s most powerful drug lord splayed across a tile roof in the city that was once his safest redoubt.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ https://thefreethoughtproject.com/escobar-son-cia-cocaine/
  2. ↑ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9252490
  3. ↑ https://www.sol915.com.ar/nueva-revelacion-del-hijo-de-pablo-escobar-mi-papa-trabajaba-para-la-cia/
  4. ↑ https://www.businessinsider.com/pablo-escobar-medellin-cartel-jeb-bush-extradition
  5. ↑ "'Nobody is ever going to tell you': 3 theories regarding who killed 'The King of Cocaine' Pablo Escobar"
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