7. He Offered To Pay Off Columbia’s National Debt
One of the most insane things about Escobar’s drug empire was the scale it operated on in the USA – it’s estimated that he was supplying 80% of all the coke snorted in the US during the 1980s. The success of his ‘foreign policy’ birthed one of Escobar’s biggest fears – extradition to the States. Escobar had vowed that he would rather die than spend jail time in Northern America. To combat any chance of this, he attempted to strike an unbelievable deal with the Colombian authorities; he would personally pay off the Colombian national debt of $10 billion – in cash – in return for a change to the extradition laws. Needless to say, he received a polite but firm ‘thanks, but no thanks’.
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