Pablo Escobar was a man of power and riches during his time in history. Escobar was listed as the seventh richest man in the world in 1989. Coming from Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia, Escobar started off as a small time gangster and a car thief. His small time crimes would never amount to what he was going to become. In the late 1970’s Escobar and his cartel became one of the most powerful …showed first 75 words of 1104 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1104 total…Escobar was considered to be part of the modern day gangster. The time, in which he came into organized crime, the new breed was in the developmental stages. Escobar helped to show what the modern day drug trafficking was about and where it was headed. His style was completely new in that it was not done traditionally as his Italian and Jewish counterparts. He helped build the building blocks for the new breed of gangsters.