1. PABLO ESCOBAR THE KING OF COCAINE

2. UPBRINGING FAMILY LIFE Escobar was born on December 1, 1949, in Antioquia, Colombia He was the third of seven children – middle class family His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a farmer SCHOOLING Studied at University Autónoma Latinoamericana of Medellín

3. CRIMINAL CAREER As a teenager Escobar would steal gravestones and resell them to smugglers. Eventually Escobar began stealing cars, selling contraband cigarettes, and fake lottery tickets. During the 1970’s Escobar entered the drug smuggling business. Escobar would buy cocaine paste, refine it, and then personally transporting it to the United States. By 1985, Escobar’s drug empire supplied 80% of the cocaine into the United states. This all ended on December 2, 1993 when he was killed by Colombian law enforcement.

4. ARRESTS May 1976 – arrested for drug possession, charges were later dropped. November 18, 1986 – arrested for drug smuggling and racketeering, charges were later dropped after he ordered the murders of the arresting officers.

5. ANOMIE THEORY The Anomie Theory was chosen for Escobar’s life of crime because he had strain between his life goals and a legitimate way to get there. As a child, Escobar had great ambitions of becoming Colombia’s president. He didn’t have enough legal opportunities to achieve his goals quickly so he turned to crime. Escobar saw the took the illegal opportunity to become one the most powerful men of his time. Some could say he had more power than the Colombian president.

6. CULTURAL REFERENCES Narcos Escobar: Paradise Lost Pablo Escobar, Mi Padre