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In collaborating with drug traffickers to form the medellin cartel, he eventually controlled more. Pablo escobar s widow reveals painful secret about how the colombian drug lord, then 25, raped her at 14 and then took her to get a backalley abortion where they inserted plastic. He was born on december 1, 1949 and died at december 2, 1993. Pablo escobar, cocaine and the torment of the colombians. Some are tourists taking a popular pablo escobar tour, some come to mourn or offer respect, and others come to curse him.
Pablo escobar was a colombian drug lord and trafficker, often called the king of cocaine. Would highly recommend to anyone that enjoyed the narcos series. Then, after coming down from the coke high, he would have been depressed when a copy actually sold for only a measly five grand. Call now to book your free hearing assessment and start hearing.
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