Pablo Escobar is remembered as the notorious leader of the Medellín Cartel, one of history’s most powerful and dangerous drug ...

Led by Pablo Escobar, the drug trafficking organization produced and supplied most of the world's cocaine. As InSight Crime estimates, the Medellin Cartel earned around $420 million in revenue per ...

In a rare interview, Pablo Escobar's sister, Alba Marina Gaviria broke her silence on the infamous drug lord and revealed new ...

Once dubbed the world’s murder capital, Medellín, Colombia, has rewritten its story through social urbanism—a bold approach blending public spaces, mobility, and community power. This article dives ...

At the peak of his power, infamous Medellín cartel boss Pablo Escobar brought in an estimated $420 million a week in revenue, making him easily one of the wealthiest drug lords in history.

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Four decades ago, Pablo Escobar brought to his Medellín hideaway four hippopotamuses, the centerpieces of a menagerie that included llamas, cheetahs, lions, tigers, ostriches and other exotic fauna.

Don Pablo was a very respectful man to those ... the Moncada and Galeano brothers had been siphoning off Medellin cartel profits, Escobar invited them to La Catedral for a “chat”.

Escobar was killed and the cartel was disbanded in the 1990s. But Medellin’s streets were still not safe. Feuds between smaller drug trafficking gangs continued into the 2000s.

"Pablo was earning so much that each year we would write off 10% of the money because the rats would eat it in storage or it would be damaged by water or lost," Escobar wrote. That would be about ...

He established connections with Pablo Escobar's lawyer Gonzalo Mora and Escobar's trafficker Roberto Alcaino. At the height of its power, the cartel is estimated to have supplied over 80% of all ...