The Rise and Fall of Pablo Escobar

Pablo Escobar made over 420 million dollars every single week at the peak of his empire.

This Colombian farmer's son became the seventh richest man in the world by age 35, controlling 80 percent

of America's cocaine supply. He literally had so much cash that rats ate millions

of dollars stored in his warehouses and he just wrote it off as business expenses.

Escobar owned private zoos, submarines, and even offered to pay Colombia's

entire national debt. But his downfall was just as dramatic as his rise.

After declaring war on the government and bombing commercial planes, he went from untouchable

kingpin to public enemy number one. The man who once burned two million in cash just to