Journal of Trauma & Treatment

Twenty Years after the Killing of the King of Kingpins Pablo Escobar:Lessons Learned from Narco-Terrorism

Abstract

Michael W. Parra and Jos? Mauricio Su?rez-Becerra

Pablo Escobar (1949 ?1993) once said that ?All empires are created of blood and fire? [1]. In 1987 Forbes magazine estimated Escobar to be the seventh-richest man in the world with a personal wealth of close to US$25 billion, while his Medellin cartel controlled 80% of the global cocaine market [2,3].