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Known as: Crime and Terror
1 title in the archive · first depicted 1973
Lived1949 – 1993
Head of the Medellín cartel, whose war on the Colombian state made him one of the richest criminals on record.
Shelfmark Vita CCLXVIII
2 years of a 44 year life depicted onscreen
Distinct years the archive depicts, against Pablo Escobar’s lifetime (1949 – 1993) — 4.5% of it.
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A major illicit drug-trafficking organization and network that emerged out of Colombia in the late 1970s and came to dominate the international cocaine trade going into the 1980s. Pablo Escobar, perhaps the group's most famous leader, personally amassed billions of dollars over the course of his criminal career.
filed under 1977
Runs throughColombian Drug War