The Colombian government has successfully fought the drug cartels eliminating high level drug lords like Pablo Escobar.
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They no longer pose a direct threat to the state, as did Pablo Escobar, a violent Medellin boss, a decade ago.
They obtained the monopoly of the multi-billion dollar industry after rival drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed by police in 1993.
Thursdays tend to be party nights in Medellin, Colombia's third-largest city and former power base of the late cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.
He became well known after being kidnapped for eight months in 1991 by Pablo Escobar, a Medellin drugs gangster (subsequently killed by police).
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The curiosity for most people ends after the tour ends, but the more dedicated Pablo Escobar historian can find a handful of equally bizarre places just outside of Medellin.
The tour's designer, Andres Pudlain, who includes the Pablo Escobar tour in his "Medellin Experience" package, admits that the drug lord did leave an indelible imprint on the city.
In the mid-1980s, two leading figures in the business, Gilberto Molina and Victor Carranza, were approached by Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, head of the militia run by Pablo Escobar's Medellin cocaine mob.
Peru and Bolivia, where coca is legal and Indians have chewed it for centuries, were the primary source of coca leaves for a cocaine boom in the early 1980s that spawned kingpins like Colombia's Pablo Escobar.
In 1989, when Luis Carlos Galan, a reformist politician and friend of her mother's, was murdered by Pablo Escobar, the drug trafficker, Ms Betancourt tore up the script for her life as a diplomatic wife, returned to Colombia and plunged into politics.
"Shorty is the Pablo Escobar of Mexico, " said security consultant Scott Stewart, invoking the memory of the colorful Medellin cartel leader who also landed on the Forbes list and thumbed his nose at Colombian authorities until he died in a shower of police bullets in December 1993.
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