Pablo Escobar

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Escobar circa. 1980
BornPablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria
1 December 1949
Antioquia, Colombia
Died2 December 1993 (Age 44)
Medellín, Colombia
Victim ofmurder
Supposed perpetrator ofAvianca Flight 203

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

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.[2]

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