Notorious Friends of Pablo Escobar – The Medellin Cartel operated out of Colombia in the late ‘70s and flourished throughout the ‘80s. At one point the Medellin narcos were some of the richest people in the entire world even having their wealth recognized by the likes of Forbes magazine.
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There was also a point in the United States when 80% of the cocaine in the country was coming from pipelines operated by the Medellin Cartel. In this time there were also countless Colombian and US citizens losing their lives to the drug war in which they had no role, this is when both police and federal agents started to notice and vowed to take action. Pablo Escobar was famously killed in 1993 after many of his compatriots had already turned themselves in. He was shot down amidst police crossfire while fleeing across the rooftops of Medellin, Colombia.
Talk of the famous Colombian cocaine cowboys had died down in the last decade until Netflix released their hit show Narcos to critical acclaim. Now the story of the boys of Medellin has become relevant again and people are curious about what really happened in from the late ‘70s to the early ‘90s. Escobar didn’t just help create a drug pipeline from Colombia to Mexico to the United States, he also helped countless cities rise back up from a destitute state. These are the real people who were by the side of Pablo Escobar through the good and the worst times.
12. Gustavo Gaviria
The cousin and right hand man of Pablo Escobar, Gaviria also served as the financial head of the uber prosperous Medellin cartel. Since the early ‘70s Gaviria and Escobar worked together in their lives of crime, Gaviria generally functioned as the brains of the operation. Gaviria stacked up a fortune that is comparable to the other Medellin cartel founders but he kept a low profile in hopes of preserving his lavish lifestyle for future generations.
His death has been widely speculated to this day. Many think that Gaviria was murdered by the Search Block of Colombia, an organization of National Police of Colombia special ops. The death of his cousin had immense impact on Escobar and he turned himself in shortly thereafter. Although he was affected by Gaviria’s death, Escobar did not attend the funeral out of paranoia. Instead he sent his assistant who relayed the funeral to Escobar via radio.
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