As leader of the Medellin drug cartel that was very powerful in the 80s and 90s, Pablo Escobar was worth an estimated $55 billion, a fortune made from illicit drug trafficking from the deep jungles of Colombia to the streets of America.
In this article, we will NOT be celebrating Pablo Escobar’s criminal empire and murderous practices, however, we will identify a number of interesting facts about Pablo:
His cartel spent an estimated $2500 a month on rubber bands to hold stacks of bills together.
In 1992, he torched $2million in crisp banknotes in order to keep his family warm while they were on the run.
Pablo factored in between 1-2 billion dollars loss each month to rats or water.
Pilots who flew Escobar’s plane earned up to $500,000 every day.
Pablo owned a Lear jet specifically for transporting his cash
Somehow, millions of poor Colombians considered him as some type of ‘Robin Hood’, because he was known to give back to the community
