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Pablo Escobar

3 August 20261949 – 1993 · Colombian

Pablo Escobar was the drug lord who built the Medellín Cartel into a billion-dollar cocaine empire. Pablo Escobar's life remains a potent reminder of the seductive nature of power and the immense cost of unchecked ambition.

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