Pd+1+Colombia




 * COLUMBIA .**


 * 1948 ** - Assassination of left-wing mayor of Bogota sets up a revolution.

//1948-57- a magnificent amount of people were killed in the civil war maybe // ABOUT 250,000-300,000
 * 1958 ** - Conservatives and Liberals concur to form National Front in a proposal to finish the civil war; other parties prohibited.


 * 1966 ** - Revolutionary defense forces of Colombia (Farc, the current largest guerrilla grouping) START TO PREPARE.


 * 1978 ** - President Julio Turbay (Liberal) starts to concentrate on the fight against drug traffickers.


 * 1984 ** - Campaign against drug traffickers following up following the murder of justice minister.


 * 1993 ** –a Medellin drug-cartel leader named Pablo Escobar was shot dead trying to escape arrest.


 * 2001 **<span style="color: #464646; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> October - Government, Farc sign San Francisco agreement, entrusting themselves to discuss ceasefire. Pastrana broadens life of secure haven until January 2002.


 * <span style="color: #464646; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2004 **<span style="color: #464646; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> May - Farc's Ricardo Palmera, the most senior Colombian guerrilla ever was caught, is imprisoned for 35 years.
 * <span style="color: #464646; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2010 **<span style="color: #464646; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> February - Constitutional court has regulations against asset of referendum on whether President Uribe should be permitted to run for a third consecutive term.

Pablo Escobar Medellín, Columbia <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;"> Personal Information: (Relevant/Interesting Biographical Info.) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord and leader of one of the most powerful criminal organizations ever assembled. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· During the height of his power in the 1980’s, he controlled a vast empire of drugs and murder that covered the globe. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· He made billions of dollars, ordered the murder of hundreds if not thousands of people, and ruled over a personal empire of mansions, airplanes, a private zoo and even his own army of soldiers and hardened criminals.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;">Career Accomplishments: (Political, Military, etc.)

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;">Work Experience: <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· First job was for a multimillionaire contraband dealer, named Alvaro Prieto. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· As his start of being a street criminal, he would steal tombstones, sandblast the names off of them, and resell them to crooked Panamanians. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· It was in the 1970’s that he found his path to wealth and power: drugs. He would buy coca paste in Bolivia and Peru, refine it, and transport it for sale in the US.
 * His rise was opposed by many honest politicians, judges and policemen, who did not like the growing influence of this street thug. Escobar had a way of dealing with his enemies: he called it “plata o plomo,” literally, silver or lead.
 * If anyone important got in the way of Pablo’s cartel, first he would bribe them, then if that didn’t work he would order them to be killed, usually including their family as well.
 * To earn trust from the locals, he spent millions on parks, schools, stadiums, churches and even housing for the poorest of Medellín’s inhabitants.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;">Education: <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Attended to Universidad de Antioquia to study political science but he was forced to renounce because he couldn't pay the taxes.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;">Professional Affiliations and Interests: (what organizations was/is this person involved in?) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Escobar was the leader of The Medellín Cartel. It is said to have controlled roughly eighty percent of the drug shipments that entered into the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic with shipments brought mostly from Peru and Bolivia, as Colombian coca was initially of substandard quality. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Escobar was behind the 1985 storming of the Colombian Supreme Court by left-wing guerrillas from the 19th of April Movement, also known as M-19, which resulted in the murder of half the judges on the court.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;">References: (what other famous people is this person affiliated with?)

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 * His reputation grew after a well known Medellín dealer named Fabio Restrepo was murdered in 1975 allegedly by Escobar, from whom he had purchased 14 kilos.


 * In 1991, due to increasing pressure to arrest him, the Colombian government and Escobar’s lawyers came up with an interesting arrangement: he would turn himself in and serve a five-year jail term. In return, he would build his own prison and would not be sent to the United States or anywhere else.
 * He ran his empire from inside La Catedral, his own prison, giving orders by telephone. There were no other prisoners in La Catedral. Today, La Catedral is in ruins, hacked to pieces by treasure hunters looking for hidden Escobar loot.
 * Fearing he could be extradited, Escobar escaped and went into hiding. A massive manhunt was organized, with help from the United States Government.
 * On December 2, 1993, Colombian security forces using US technology located Escobar hiding in a home in a middle-class section of Medellín. Escobar was eventually gunned down as he attempted to escape on the rooftop.
 * Escobar is still remembered by the poor of Medellín as a benefactor. He has been the subject of numerous books, movies and websites, and fascination continues with this master criminal, who once ruled one of the greatest crime empires in history.