The Medellín Cartel was founded by Escobar and his partners in the late 1970s, and it quickly became one of the most powerful and feared organizations in the world. The cartel's success was built on its innovative use of smuggling routes, its strategic targeting of the US market, and its willingness to use violence to protect its interests.
Pablo Escobar, also known as El Patrón del Mal (The Lord of Evil), was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who rose to infamy in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the founder and leader of the Medellín Cartel, which supplied an estimated 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States at the height of its power. Escobar's life was marked by violence, crime, and excess, and his reign as one of the most feared and powerful men in the world was eventually brought to an end by a dramatic and bloody confrontation with law enforcement.
Escobar's final confrontation with law enforcement took place on December 1, 1993, in the El Poblado neighborhood of Medellín. A team of Colombian police officers, led by Hugo Martínez, had been tracking Escobar for months and had finally pinpointed his location.