Columbia was being haunted by El Bogotazo, the struggle between the army and the guerrillas and between the leftist and rightist who wanted to take control of the Columbian government. As El Bogotazo cooled down in Bogotá, the capital of Columbia, it started “metamorphosing into a n

As a child Pablo attended the school where his mother taught but was never a good student. He dropped out of high school and started to pursue a criminal career. He first started doing small jobs like stealing bikes and selling them, when he got enough money he bought a high school diploma, after dropping out of high school for the second time. Pablo started moving to bigger jobs, he started stealing cars and giving them to his friends or selling them. He was becoming keen in the criminal life, people started respecting him, but it was not until he was introduced to the cocaine that he became a “don”. At the beginning of his cocaine business he would ransom and sometimes kill people who owed him money to place fear in them, or his rivals. His name started walking the streets, he was feared and respected, and took this to his advantage by charging people for protection.

“The attention is justified: Bowden combines page-turner prose with exhaustive investigative reporting, to tell a story about amazing characters” (Cruickshank).

By the age of 26, Pablo made the transition from drug courier to drug smuggler. At that time, cocaine was worth $35,000 a kilo and a small plane carrying only a small amount could make big money. This began the rise of "El Patron", also known as “El Doctor”. Soon by the age of 30, Pablo had made enough money from smuggling drugs into the United States that he purchased the Hacienda Napoles for $63 million and owned his own helicopter, a private zoo, and thousands of acres of land throughout Colombia. Pablo and his close associates thought of themselves as the new Al Capone because what he did eventually became legal after prohibition. Pablo and his friends seriously believed that what they were doing was not illegal and one day it would become legal and their money and enterprises would be legitimized. Pablo even owned a car of Al Capone.

ightmarish period of bloodletting so empty of meaning it came to be know as La Violencia” (Bowden, 11). The heroes at the time, also known as bandidos, were brutal outlaws who killed hundreds of people but still gained fame over it. “It w

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