Pablo Escobar: see the figures and curiosities of the trafficker who died 25 years ago | World

There is no official data on the killings attributed to the Medellín cartel leader, which includes police officers, journalists, judges and presidential candidates.

His son, Sebastián Marroquín, estimates at 3,000 the number of homicides reported by his father. According to police sources quoted by Semana magazine, there are an estimated 5,500 people. But this number may be higher.

The Medellín prefecture states that between 1983 and 1994, at the height of the cartel, there were 46,612 violent deaths resulting from "narcoterrorism", which includes people related to Escobar and to "the other". other criminal organizations.

Escobar appeared six consecutive years (1987-1993) in the Forbes list of the richest men in the world.

When it was first published, the publication estimated that its cash flow was $ 3 billion at the time and that its net wealth was more than $ 2 billion. His fortune was therefore equivalent to the current annual GDP of countries like Sierra Leone or Suriname.

At the time of his death, when the authorities offered him $ 11 million for the head, his net worth had risen to a billion dollars, including mansions, works of art, a zoo and automobiles.

Much of his fortune was delivered by Escobar to his enemies in exchange for their lives.

The beginning and the end of the head of the traffic – catholic and esoteric – are marked of the same month: December.

Born on December 1, 1949 in Rionegro, near Medellin; died December 2, 1993 in the capital Antioquia and was buried on December 3 in the city that transformed his area of ​​operations, at a funeral attended by thousands of followers. Twenty-five years later, they still remember the prediction of the Colombian astrologer Mauricio Puerta, who, according to the astral map of the trafficker – Sagittarius to the ascendant of the fish – had ensured that he would have died suddenly by the fatal conjuncture of the stars.

Escobar was interested in the forecast and had been trying to arrange a meeting with Puerta, which had never materialized.

The astrologer interprets the difficulty of being "a star protection resource so that nothing comes to interfere in an already inexorable destiny", according to the book "Pablo Escobar: the great trafficker of drug ", marked by Alonso Salazar.

Regarded as one of the worst criminals in history, many are wondering why some people call it "Colombian Robin Hood".

When the chief of the trade attempted to engage in politics in the early 1980s, he raised social flags, which speeded up the delivery of 443 houses to the residents of a garbage dump in Medellin.

The urbanization is known as Pablo Escobar neighborhood and currently has 4,000 homes.