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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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  • From Smuggler to Cocaine King: The Rise, Reign, and Ruin of Escobar

    From Smuggler to Cocaine King: The Rise, Reign, and Ruin of Escobar
    2026/09/08
    (00:00:00) From Smuggler to Cocaine King: The Rise, Reign, and Ruin of Escobar
    (00:01:17) From Nothing to Everything
    (00:03:06) Plata o Plomo
    (00:04:16) The Public Face
    (00:05:55) Violence at Scale
    (00:08:22) La Catedral and the Escape
    (00:10:20) The Rooftop
    (00:11:48) After Pablo

    On December 3, 1993, a photograph flashed across wire services showing a heavyset, barefoot man dead on a terracotta rooftop in Medellín. Pablo Escobar — cocaine king, mass murderer, folk hero, and congressman — was gone at forty-four. But the world he'd engineered was still very much running.

    This episode traces the complete arc of Escobar's rise: from petty theft in Rionegro and contraband stereo smuggling to the industrialisation of the global cocaine trade. At its peak, the Medellín Cartel moved seventy to eighty tons of cocaine a month and generated an estimated twenty-two billion dollars a year. Escobar personally earned around seventy million dollars a day — and lost ten percent of his cash reserves annually to rats, which he accepted as a cost of doing business.

    But raw money wasn't enough. Escobar understood that power required legitimacy and fear in equal measure. His plata o plomo ultimatum — silver or lead — systematically corrupted Colombian police, judges, military commanders, and politicians. His sicario network, recruited from Medellín's poorest comunas, carried out hundreds of contract killings. At the same time, he built housing blocks, soccer pitches, and community centres in the slums, creating a base of genuine popular loyalty that sheltered him during the manhunt years.

    The episode covers his brief, calculated entry into Colombian politics, the assassination of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, his war against extradition, the bombing of Avianca Flight 203, the murder of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán, La Catedral — the luxury prison he designed himself — the Search Bloc, and the rooftop in Los Olivos where it all ended.

    This is the story of how one man broke a country, and why killing him wasn't enough to fix it.

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    16 分
  • Tombstones, Coca Fields & the Making of a Cocaine King

    Tombstones, Coca Fields & the Making of a Cocaine King
    2026/09/07
    (00:00:00) Tombstones, Coca Fields & the Making of a Cocaine King
    (00:00:52) From Tombstones to Cocaine
    (00:02:37) The Architecture of Power
    (00:04:21) Robin Hood and the Cost of Legend
    (00:05:34) War on the State
    (00:07:33) La Catedral
    (00:08:42) The Search Bloc and the Final Chase
    (00:10:03) The Rooftop
    (00:11:29) The World He Changed

    Before there was a cartel, there was a teenager in Medellín with nothing but ambition and a talent for moving things that weren't supposed to move. This episode charts the complete rise and fall of Pablo Escobar — from grave-robbing and contraband electronics to commanding a cocaine empire that shipped seventy to eighty tonnes of product into the United States every single month.

    Escobar didn't invent cocaine. He industrialised it. By the mid-1970s he had looked at a fragmented, loosely organised drug trade and seen something no one else had: a logistics problem waiting for a ruthless solution. He built the pipeline from the Andean coca fields through jungle processing labs to the streets of Miami and Los Angeles, and he enforced it with two tools — plata o plomo, silver or lead, and an army of teenage sicarios who turned Medellín into one of the most violent cities on earth.

    But the story is never that simple. Escobar also built housing, funded football pitches, and won a seat in the Colombian Congress. The Robin Hood myth was engineered, yet it was believed — and that belief kept him protected for years.

    This episode also covers the assassination of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Escobar's pathological terror of US extradition, the Palace of Justice siege, the bombing of Avianca Flight 203, the war against the Cali Cartel, the murder of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán, La Catedral prison, the Search Bloc, Los Pepes — and the rooftop in Medellín where it all ended on 2 December 1993.

    Colombia has never been the same. Neither has the global drug trade.

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    15 分
  • The Enemy Within: Los Pepes, the Shadow War, and Escobar's Last Stand

    The Enemy Within: Los Pepes, the Shadow War, and Escobar's Last Stand
    2026/09/06
    (00:00:00) The Enemy Within: Los Pepes, the Shadow War, and Escobar's Last Stand
    (00:00:59) What Los Pepes Was
    (00:02:17) The Methods
    (00:03:41) The Search Bloc and the Shadow Alliance
    (00:05:09) Escobar Under Pressure
    (00:06:24) The Call That Ended It
    (00:07:53) Who Won
    (00:09:24) What Remained

    By mid-1993, no government on earth had managed to bring down Pablo Escobar. Then came Los Pepes — Perseguidos por Pablo Escobar — a ruthless paramilitary alliance that fought the cocaine king using his own methods: bombings, assassinations, and the systematic destruction of everything he valued.

    This chapter of the Medellín Cartel story peels back the shadow war that ran parallel to Colombia's official manhunt. Los Pepes was not a citizen vigilante group. Its leadership included paramilitary commanders Fidel and Carlos Castaño Gil, men who had once orbited Escobar's world and now had personal scores to settle. Quietly feeding intelligence into the effort were figures tied to the Cali Cartel — the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers, who understood that a weakened Escobar meant a stronger Cali.

    Meanwhile, the Search Bloc — Colombia's elite anti-Escobar unit under Colonel Hugo Martínez, backed by DEA advisors, CIA support, and US signals intelligence — was closing in through radio triangulation. The troubling question this episode confronts head-on: was there coordination between the legal manhunt and the illegal death squad targeting the same man?

    Escobar himself raised the alarm, writing to Colombian human rights bodies claiming state collaboration with Los Pepes. He wasn't entirely wrong. Targets overlapped. Intelligence flowed. The Colombian government knew what Los Pepes was doing — and did not shut them down.

    Fugitive in his own city since escaping La Catedral in July 1992, Escobar moved constantly, kept calls short, and used radio relay systems to survive. It worked — until it didn't. This is the episode where the walls begin to close.

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    12 分
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