7 facts about cocaine king Pablo Escobar. His money could feed the whole world!

He was born into a poor Colombian family, but years later became one of the richest and most powerful people in the world. Pablo Escobar went down in history not as a politician, but as a famous drug lord.

The cocaine king did not hide his illegal activities, which, by the way, brought him a considerable fortune. Responsible for 80% of the global cocaine market, he earned approximately $420 million weekly. El Patron is considered the richest drug lord of all time. It’s even difficult to imagine how much money he made from selling death powder: we are no longer talking about millions, but about billions of dollars.

How much money was swirling around Escobar!

In just one year, Escobar's cartel earned almost $22 billion.

To tell the truth, the story of the legendary cocaine king cannot be called funny. I don’t want to talk today about the terrible deaths and high-profile terrorist attack that followed Escobar’s real arrest. We only told about the shocking fortune that can be earned in such an ignoble way. Despite the terrible facts that accompanied the entire biography of the drug lord, the richest Colombian helped the poor - he was even considered the new Robin Hood.

Pablo smuggled about 15 tons of cocaine into the United States every year.

Escobar lost up to $2 billion every year, but this was not a problem. Eyewitnesses recall: “Pablo earned so much that every year 10% of his fortune had to be written off because the money in the vault was eaten by rats, damaged by water, or simply lost.”

Escobar was on the Forbes list of international billionaires for seven years in a row, from 1987 to 1993. In 1989, he reached the seventh position.

Every month Pablo spent 2.5 thousand dollars just on elastic bands for banknotes.

Once, when his daughter Manuela froze to death in an unheated shelter home, Escobar burned $2 million to keep the girl warm.

In 1991, El Patron was imprisoned in a prison of his own design called La Catedral, which was more reminiscent of an expensive, prestigious club. Dance floor, swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, football field: what was there! Escobar's relatives and friends could visit him at any time, and the prisoner himself decided when to come. But representatives of the Colombian authorities were prohibited from approaching the prison closer than five kilometers.