he was The Mastermind behind one of the largest drug Empires the world has ever seen But at what cost Pablo Escobar born in Colombia in 1949 Rose to power in the 70s as the head of the Medellin cartel he controlled the majority of the global cocaine trade and used his immense wealth to corrupt the highest levels of government and law enforcement the violence and bloodshed that surrounded Escobar's Empire was unprecedented entire neighborhoods were terrorized countless lives were lost and the fabric of Colombian Society was torn apart in 1993 after a year's Long Manhunt Pablo Escobar
was finally killed in a dramatic police operation but his legacy lives on a warning to all of what can happen when greed and power are left unchecked the cost of his Empire was high that cost was everything
