[HIGHLIGHTS] He killed thousands, became a member of parliament and confronted the state with weapons to protect his empire. Pablo Escobar Colombian Drug Baron

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1, 1949 in the Colombian city of Rionegro. In 1971, he joined the gang of the dangerous Colombian criminal Oscar Bernal Aguero.

In 1976, he married Maria Victoria Henao and had a son, Juan Pablo Escobar, and a daughter, Manuela Escobar. The Medellín cartel and its boss Escobar now control many drug distribution and trafficking routes in the United States, Spain, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Puerto Rico.