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Who Is Pablo Escobar?
Pablo Escobar was born December 1, 1949 in Rionegro, Colombia and died December 2, 1993 in Medellin, Columbia. Pablo Escobar was a member of Colombia’s working poor. Pablo Escobar father Abel de Jesus Escobar Echeverri was a farmer and his mother Hermilda de los Dolores Gaviria Berrío was a school teacher. Escobar married Maria Victoria Henao Vallejo who was only fifteen at the time and had two children named Juan Pablo Escobar Henao and Manuela Escobar Henao. Pablo Escobar is said to have joined criminal activities because he was poor. Pablo Escobar started doing criminal activities at a young age. Pablo Escobar would steal tombstones from the forgotten graves, sand them down and sell them to Panamanian Smugglers. Then later he started stealing

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