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Pablo Escobar & The Medellín Cartel

Pablo Escobar & The Medellín Cartel

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The rise and fall of the cocaine king who at his peak earned $70 million a day, killed thousands, ran for Colombian congress, and bombed an airliner. From smuggling stereos to inventing the modern narcotics pipeline. His war with the Cali Cartel, the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán, the Palace of Justice siege, La Catedral prison he built for himself, the Search Bloc, and the rooftop death in Medellín in December 1993. Colombia has never been the same. — a daily series with new episodes every day.© 2026 YesOui.ai ノンフィクション犯罪 世界
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  • Tombstones to Tonnes: How Escobar Industrialised the Cocaine Trade

    Tombstones to Tonnes: How Escobar Industrialised the Cocaine Trade
    2026/09/01
    (00:00:00) Tombstones to Tonnes: How Escobar Industrialised the Cocaine Trade
    (00:00:56) From Tombstones to Tonnes
    (00:02:18) Building the Pipeline
    (00:03:43) The Robin Hood and the Congressman
    (00:05:18) War on the State
    (00:06:29) Flight 203
    (00:07:34) La Catedral
    (00:08:49) The Manhunt
    (00:09:53) The Disputed Death
    (00:10:56) What Colombia Lost and Kept

    Pablo Escobar is one of the most mythologised figures in modern history — and one of the most misunderstood. This episode cuts through the Netflix legend to reconstruct the full picture: a man who simultaneously held a congressional seat and ran the world's most violent criminal enterprise, who built football pitches for the poor while ordering the assassination of a presidential candidate, and who terrified a sovereign government into negotiating with him on his own terms.

    We begin where Escobar began — in the margins. A schoolteacher's son from Rionegro, running contraband cigarettes and stolen tombstone marble through Medellín's streets before he had a plan, only a talent for moving things that weren't supposed to move. That logistics instinct, colliding with the cocaine boom of the 1970s, produced something unprecedented: an industrial narcotics pipeline that at its peak shifted 70 to 80 tonnes of cocaine every single month and generated an estimated $22 billion a year.

    The episode also traces the political violence that defined his war on the Colombian state — the murder of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, the Palace of Justice siege, the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán, and the bombing of Avianca Flight 203. Each act of terror was a calculated move in Escobar's campaign against extradition to the United States.

    From the plata o plomo ultimatums that bent Colombia's institutions, to La Catedral — the luxury prison he designed and occupied — to the Search Bloc that ultimately hunted him down, this is the story of how one man bent a nation to his will, and what it cost Colombia to break free.

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    13 分
  • The Cocaine King: From Tombstone Thief to $70M-a-Day Empire

    The Cocaine King: From Tombstone Thief to $70M-a-Day Empire
    2026/08/31
    (00:00:00) The Cocaine King: From Tombstone Thief to $70M-a-Day Empire
    (00:00:36) From Tombstones to Tons
    (00:02:06) Plata o Plomo
    (00:03:45) The Palace Burns
    (00:05:00) Bombing the Sky
    (00:06:14) La Catedral
    (00:07:35) The Hunt
    (00:09:00) Rooftop, Los Olivos
    (00:10:14) What Didn't End

    He started by sanding inscriptions off stolen tombstones and reselling them. Within two decades, Pablo Escobar was earning seventy million dollars a day and had hollowed out an entire nation's institutions to protect his empire. This episode traces the complete arc — from contraband cigarettes and stereo smuggling in Medellín to the industrialised cocaine pipeline that flooded the United States with seventy to eighty tons of product every month.

    At the centre of the Medellín Cartel's power was a deceptively simple business model: plata o plomo. Silver or lead. Every judge, customs agent, and politician faced the same binary choice, and Escobar made sure the mathematics of compliance were impossible to ignore. Those who refused were killed publicly, to teach everyone watching.

    But violence was only half the strategy. In the comunas of Medellín, Escobar built housing, funded football pitches, and distributed food — engineering a popular legitimacy that would outlast him by decades. At Hacienda Nápoles, he kept a private zoo and artificial lakes. The excess was also policy.

    This episode also covers the burning of the Palace of Justice in 1985, the bombing of Avianca Flight 203 — which killed 110 innocent people while missing its intended target — and the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán. Each act of terror was designed to halt extradition. Each one ultimately accelerated Colombia's determination to bring Escobar down.

    From the founding logic of the cartel to the events that made his destruction inevitable, this is the story of the cocaine king at the height of his power — and the first cracks that would end him.

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    13 分
  • La Catedral, the Search Bloc & the Rooftop in Medellín

    La Catedral, the Search Bloc & the Rooftop in Medellín
    2026/08/30
    (00:00:00) La Catedral, the Search Bloc & the Rooftop in Medellín
    (00:00:53) From Tombstones to Cocaine
    (00:01:59) Building the Machine
    (00:03:15) Plata o Plomo
    (00:04:19) The Robin Hood Construction
    (00:05:37) The Political Gambit
    (00:06:36) The War Against the State
    (00:08:23) La Catedral
    (00:09:39) The Manhunt
    (00:11:32) What He Left Behind

    He earned seventy million dollars a day, bombed an airliner, ran for congress, and built his own luxury prison. Pablo Escobar didn't just become the world's most powerful drug lord — he industrialised the cocaine trade from cultivation to distribution, creating the modern narcotics pipeline that still shapes global drug trafficking today.

    This episode traces the full arc of Escobar's rise and fall. Starting from stolen tombstones and smuggled stereos in Antioquia, through his takeover of Colombia's cocaine supply chain and the founding of the Medellín Cartel, to the brutal plata o plomo system that dismantled the Colombian state from within. Escobar built soccer fields for the poor while deploying sicarios from the same barrios. He won a congressional seat while running a criminal empire generating twenty-two billion dollars a year.

    Then came the war. The assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán. The Palace of Justice siege. The bombing of Avianca Flight 203. His surrender to a prison he designed himself — La Catedral — and the escape that triggered the full force of the Search Bloc and Los Pepes hunting him through Medellín's streets.

    On December 2, 1993, Colombian security forces tracked Escobar to a rooftop in the Los Olivos neighbourhood. He was shot and killed. But the wound he left on Colombia — the corruption, the fear, the contradictions — didn't die with him. It calcified.

    This is the story of how he built all of it, and what it cost a country.

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    14 分
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