Gonzalo gaviria y pablo escobar biography

1949-1993

Who Was Pablo Escobar?

Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug trafficker who collaborated with other criminals to form the Medellín cartel in the early 1970s. Eventually, he controlled over 80 percent of the cocaine shipped to the United States, earning the nickname “The King of Cocaine.” He amassed an estimated net worth of $30 billion and was named one of the 10 richest people on Earth by Forbes. He earned popularity by sponsoring charity projects and soccer clubs, but later, terror campaigns that resulted in the murder of thousands turned public opinion against him. After surrendering to the Colombian authorities in 1991, Escobar escaped detainment in 1992 and was a fugitive until his dramatic death in December 1993.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria
BORN: December 1, 1949
DIED: December 2, 1993
BIRTHPLACE: Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia
SPOUSE: Maria Victoria Henao (1976-1993)
CHILDREN: Juan Pablo and Manuela
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Sagittarius

Early Life

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1, 1949, in the Colombian city of Rionegro, Antioquia. His family later moved to the suburb of Envigado. He was the third of seven children born in poverty to a schoolteacher mother and a peasant farmer father. From an early age, Escobar packed a unique ambition to raise himself up from his humble beginnings and dreamed of becoming the president of Colombia one day.

Escobar reportedly began his life of crime early, stealing tombstones and selling phony diplomas. It wasn’t long before he started stealing cars, then moving into the smuggling business. Escobar’s early prominence came during the “Marlboro Wars,” in which he played a high-profile role in the control of Colombia’s smuggled cigarette market. This episode proved to be a valuable training ground for the future narcotics kingpin.

Establishing the Medellín Cartel

It wasn’t by chance that Colombia came to dominate the cocaine trade. Beginning in the early

Colombian drug trafficker (1946–1990)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gaviria and the second or maternal family name is Rivero.

Gustavo de Jesús Gaviria Rivero (25 December 1946 – 11 August 1990) was a Colombian drug trafficker. As Pablo Escobar's cousin and right-hand man, Gaviria controlled the Medellín cartel's finances and trade routes. He and Escobar had collaborated in their criminal careers since the early 1970s.

Though he was the owner of a fortune comparable to Escobar's and even had a military apparatus at his service, Gaviria was not as well known, as he kept a low profile.

After Gustavo's death, Escobar decided to turn himself in but to stay at La Catedral, a jail of his own making, guarded by his own guards. Since Gustavo died four days after PresidentCésar Gaviria took office, at the time, the media and the country in general thought the president had begun his term with an offensive against the narcoterrorists. Gustavo's death triggered a counter-offensive by Escobar that initially destabilised administration.

In popular culture

• Gustavo was played by actor Juan Pablo Raba in the first season of the Netflix television series, Narcos. The series attributes his death to the former members of the Search Bloc as well as relatives of Escobar's victims, but depicts it happening some time into the Gaviria administration.
• Actor Christian Tappan plays "Gonzalo Gaviria", a character inspired by Gustavo Gaviria, in the 2012 television series Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord.
• In TV Series Tres Caínes is portrayed by the Colombian actor Julio Pachón
• In TV Series En la boca del lobo is portrayed by Simón Rivera as the character of Pariente Gavirno.

References

Colombian drug lord (1949–1993)

This article is about the Colombian drug lord. For other uses, see Pablo Escobar (disambiguation).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Escobar and the second or maternal family name is Gaviria.

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (; Spanish:[ˈpaβloeskoˈβaɾ]; 1 December 1949 – 2 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and politician who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed the "King of Cocaine", Escobar was one of the wealthiest criminals in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death—equivalent to $70 billion as of 2022—while his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Born in Rionegro and raised in Medellín, Escobar studied briefly at Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana of Medellín but left without graduating; he instead began engaging in criminal activity, selling illegal cigarettes and fake lottery tickets, as well as participating in motor vehicle theft. In the early 1970s, he began to work for various drug smugglers, often kidnapping and holding

Gustavo Gaviria

Gustavo de Jesús Gaviria Rivero (died June 15, 1991) was a Colombian drug trafficker, and a member of the Medellín cartel led by his cousin Pablo Escobar.

He began his criminal career by smuggling cigarettes and consumer electronics along with his cousin, had a brief stint as bank robbers and enforcers for local landowners and emerald traders . Mateo Moreno introduced the cousins to cocaine, and they began trafficking cocaine into the United States. Initially, Gaviria handled money laundering and shipping and came up with the idea of hiding cocaine into every legitimate Colombian export. However, he left the logistics operations in the early 1980s and solely focused on money laundering, and later served as Escobar's right hand man and most importantly his voice of reasons.

He began an extramarital affair with Marina Ochoa, one of the sisters of the Ochoabrothers. The brothers came to know about the affair through Cali cartel leader Hélmer Herrera. They decided to give away Gustavo's location to the Search Bloc in exchange for not being extradited to the United States. Search Bloc commander Horacio Carrillo executed Gaviria after he refused to snitch on his cousin. His death paves way for Escobar's downfall as he is no longer there to correct Escobar when he makes mistakes.

Personality

Gustavo is often the voice of reason and the more rational and patient of the escobar-gaviria cousins, always planning and thinking from a business like perspective, leaving personal grudges aside, minimizing risk and avoiding violence unless absolutely necessary. He often clashes with Pablo because of his hotheadness and disposition to solving problems with violence and intimidation, as well as his perception of himself as a leader of the people and wanting to become president, despite his dealings as a notorious smuggler, which brings