Pablo ended up becoming what he wanted in time. He dropped out of school 3 years early and he ended up becoming the mastermind criminal he’s known for. Steeling cars and selling them for parts, and holding people for ransom he made his fortune and got the people of Columbia to fear him. When he had enough money he was able to work with the cocaine and marijuana, distributing it around the world mostly America, in secret for money. That way he was able to bribe the policemen and judges with money if he was ever caught (which he was). The drugs were where his real fortune came from.
Eventually Pablo ended up having a family. He had a wife named Maria Victoria, a daughter named Manuela, and a son named Juan. He married early at 26, when she was a 15-year-old girl. Though, he did spend quite a bit of his money on girls who came to “entertain” his closest guests. When Pablo reached the age of 40 in 1989, he was known to be not just some target for the law enforcement but also for the military. America joined the raid for Pablo after he had the President Luis Galán assassinated. Pablo’s way of saving his own a** was to bribe the judge, policemen, or whoever was going after him, with his money. If they still would not accept, then he would try to kill their families.
Eventually Pablo was found and arrested, but he went to a place that many did not see as a real prison. It was called La Catedral. It was more like a safe place for him to live until he believed he would be let out again. The La Catedral was a prison, yet Pablo was still able to have all the luxuries of the world there when he knew how to sneak them in. It was ridiculous, and he eventually escaped anyways.
There was a group that was started, that was supposed to kill Pablo’s followers as a way to get to Pablo, called the LOS PEPES. It was found that he was still not captured even after a period of six months with the U.S. and Columbia out looking for him. The United States sent in their Delta forces to help with the raid. The Medellín police didn’t help any though, as they were working with Pablo.
Pablo was captured and killed by gunfire. A tracking device had traced one of his phone calls. As Pablo was trying to escape the entire group of men sent to find him shot at him at once. Pablo was finally killed.
The rest of this book just went into detail about how the men thought the event of killing Pablo had actually happened. It also explained what the rest of the world had done after he was killed. The United States and the Columbian forces had finally captured the biggest criminal to have ever lived. It was a very interesting book.
This book told of how Pablo Escobar was born and raised in a place in South America called Bogotá, Columbia. He was born during the 1950’s, a time of fear, hate, and murder. There was a group called La Violencia that put horror in the minds of anyone living there. They and other groups would kill people for their property. They would come up with even more sick and twisted things to do to people before killing them just for the sake of frightening others. The author once wrote about how the men from one group would rape a victim in front of their families, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, mothers, husbands, and fathers just to present humiliation to the task. It was written in this book that men had to beg, scream and gag before death, or even watch as the most loved ones in their families were killed. Some groups terribly mutilated the victim’s body when killing it and then left it out on some sort of display to scare people. There was another group Bowden wrote about who supposedly cut off the male’s genitals and put them in his mouth before death. This same group somehow cut off the woman’s breasts and then stretched their wombs over their heads. The book said that these criminals killed even children slowly and with pleasure, not by some mere accident. These groups of criminals were the type that Pablo grew up around.