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Incorporating never before-seen archival footage, home movies and interviews with family members, journalists and law enforcement officials, PABLO ESCOBAR: KING OF COCAINE tells the story of the twisted Robin Hood who founded the Medellin cartel cocaine smuggling organization and... Read all.
At the height of its power, the Medellín cartel dominated the cocaine trade, earning an estimated $420 million a week and making its leader one of the wealthiest people in the world. With a reported worth of $25 billion, Escobar had ample money to spend—and he did.
This immense operation earned him an estimated $420 million a week, and the nickname ‘The King of Cocaine’. By the 1980’s, the sheer volume of cocaine entering the US (approximately 70-80 tonnes per month) made Escobar one of the ten wealthiest people on the planet, with an estimated net worth of around $30 billion, according to Forbes .
Incorporating never before-seen archival footage, home movies and interviews with family members, journalists and law enforcement officials, PABLO ESCOBAR: K...
Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar was one of the wealthiest criminals in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death—equivalent to $70 billion as of 2022—while his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s. [1] [2]
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Pablo Escobar reigned as the king of cocaine. Known as “El Padrino,” “El Patrón,” and “Don Pablo,” the Colombian drug lord built out his Medellín Cartel, made himself billions, and killed anyone who stood in his way.
Never before-seen archival footage, home movies and interviews with family members, journalists and law enforcement officials, telling the story of the twisted Robin Hood who founded the Medellin cartel cocaine smuggling organization becoming the first billionaire criminal in South America.
