Pablo Escobar
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Pablo Escobar had a net worth of 30 billion dollars (Biography.com). Pablo Escobar earned popularity by sponsoring charity projects and soccer clubs. Pablo Escobar pretty much owned the city of Medellin. With this kind of power, he controlled Medellin officials and other Security Forces. This amount of protection was to protect him from rivals and government intervention. Since the Medellin forces couldn't do anything to stop, this was a problem for the United States forces. Cocaine was being smuggled and sold in the United States of America and even if it was criminalized it was still popping up. More than 15 Tons of cocaine we reportedly smuggled into the United States each day (biography.com). This meant the cartel made as much as 420 million dollars a week.