Pablo EscobarThe document traces Escobar's life from humble peasant beginnings to powerful cocaine dealer and kingpin. The article discusses the sound financial decisions Escobar made and how he invested in legitimate projects using illegally earned funds. The article explores the influence Escobar had and how he worked, ultimately unsuccessfully, to establish a non-extradition clause in the Colombian constitution. Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on December 1, 1949 and died on December 2, 1993. Pablo Escobar was a man of power and wealth during his time in history. He became famous as a Colombian drug wholesaler. Pablo Escobar became so rich and powerful in the drug business that in 1989 Forbes magazine listed him as the seventh richest man in the world. the richest man in the world. In fact he is considered one of the most brutally cruel, determined and dominant drug dealers in history. Pablo once told his mother that he wanted to be "big" one day, but I don't think this is what he had in mind. Pablo began earning money by sneaking into cemeteries at night and stealing the gravestones of the deceased, then he would blast the engraving off the gravestone and sell them as new gravestones to Panamanians. By the age of twenty Pablo was also a skilled car thief. His little crimes would never amount to what he would become. His reputation grew after a known Medellin drug dealer named Fabio Restrepo was murdered in 1975 apparently by Escobar, all of Restrepo's men were informed that they were now working for Pablo. It was here that he began his pattern of dealing with authorities by either bribing or killing them. During the 1980s, Escobar... at the center of the paper... special. He wanted to get to the top quickly and decided as a child that he would not take the slow and steady path taken by law-abiding citizens. He began a life of crime, regardless of who he hurt and killed along the way. His eventual success in the community did not, however, negate the means he used to achieve that success, and when he tried to use his acquired political popularity to change the constitution in a way that would erase his past, the public turned against of him. He went to prison, escaped and died. If Escobar had not existed, the business aspects of the drug world would not be as organized as they are now. He was able to develop sound financial and business practices in an illegal world. He left a mark where his name will always be associated with the infamous drug lords of the world. Pablo Esobar wanted the good life, but he didn't care who he hurt to get it."