Published Daily Blog "Better a grave in Colombia than a cell in the United States." Who spoke these words was conscious how it would end its existence. As are all those men (and women) who choose to affiliate to what, at any latitude, can be simply defined as organized crime. The man was Pablo Escobar, emperor of cocaine in the eighties. His life has meant money, power and a country (Colombia) at his feet as he was able to influence policy is also due to its influence on the masses. All this while the United States financed with hundreds of millions of dollars a year combating drug trafficking and its capture. It 's over as he had predicted or hoped, was killed in a shootout in December 1993 while trying to flee capture rooftop Medellin. No cells in the U.S. for him, but a name that is a legend in South America and is still a pass on "his environment." Each year about 50 thousand people are going in the Colombian jungle, the Department of Antioquia, to visit the "den" of Escobar, now abandoned and dilapidated.
Escobar is the face of drug trafficking and the media will go down in history as one who "invented" the global market for cocaine, (estimated by the UN in 2009 to 500 billion dollars) ... (Continued) http://www.dailyblog.it/inchiesta-limpero-della-cocaina/01/02/2011/
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