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Making $420 Million a Week. Then He Died Hiding in a Small House With Nothing

At his peak Pablo Escobar was making $420 million dollars every single week. He was the seventh richest man on earth. He had a private zoo, a personal airport, and enough money to offer to pay off Colombia's entire national debt just to stay out of prison. Then on December 2, 1993 — the most powerful criminal in history was found hiding alone in a small ordinary house in Medellín wearing a dirty t-shirt. He was killed on the rooftop trying to escape through a window. He was 44 years old. This is the full story of how he got there — and what it cost everyone around him. In this video we explore: • How Pablo Escobar rose from a poor farming family to control 80% of the world's cocaine supply • The plata o plomo strategy that bought entire governments and police forces • The extraordinary moment he became a legitimate Colombian politician • The total war he declared on Colombia — bombings, assassinations, 4,000 deaths • The luxury prison he designed himself — and how he simply walked out of it • The final 16 months as a hunted fugitive and how a 37 second phone call ended everything ________________________________________ Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1 1949 in Rionegro Colombia to a farming family. By his early twenties he was involved in cocaine trafficking and by the late 1970s his Medellín Cartel controlled an estimated 80% of the cocaine entering the United States. At peak operation the cartel was smuggling 15 tons of cocaine into America daily generating revenues estimated at $420 million per week. Escobar's personal net worth was estimated at $30 billion by 1989 when Forbes listed him as the seventh wealthiest person on earth. He was responsible for the assassinations of a Justice Minister, three presidential candidates, Supreme Court justices, and an estimated 4,000 deaths during his campaign of narco-terrorism against the Colombian government. He surrendered in 1991 to a luxury prison of his own design called La Catedral before escaping in 1992. He was killed by Colombian security forces on December 2 1993 in Medellín, Colombia, one day after his 44th birthday. ________________________________________ He spent his entire life trying to escape the poverty he was born into. He died in a house not much better than the one he grew up in. Power without conscience is not power. It is a timer. Counting down. If this story showed you something about power, ambition and consequence — share it tonight. Subscribe to HISTORVA for more of history's most extraordinary true stories. ________________________________________ 🔔 Subscribe for weekly history videos 👍 Like if this story left you thinking 💬 Comment below — did you know Escobar's hippos are still alive in Colombia today?