Escobar, a heavy pot-smoker cultivated a relaxed, informal life style with his friends and associates. Escobar was not as friendly to his enemies he was vicious and feared by everyone. For example when one of Escobar's bombs brought down an Avianca Airliner in Colombia in November 1989, Killing 107 people, he become one of the most feared terrorists in the world.

He was considered the brains of the cartel and had a stand up reputation with the people of Medellin. He built many things for the community such as a hospital, housing for the poor and other types of charity. Which lead to being elected as an alternate to Colombia Congress in 1983, Escobar enjoyed widespread popularity among t

At the height of his power in the late 1980's, he was in control of the multibillion- dollar export of Colombian cocaine to the United States. He was at that time the most notorious drug trafficker in the world running his cocaine business surrounded and protected by the Colombian army. Estimates were made that 70 to 80 tons of cocaine were being shipped from Colombia to the United States every single month, and Escobar and his cartel controlled the bulk of it.

Now, in one night, it had all come undone Escobar had vanished. The president's vice minister of justice and his Bureau of Prisons chief had gone in themselves without authorization to talk with Escobar, and both had been taken hostage. The scene at La Cathedral left one soldier killed in the raid. Two Bureau of Prisons guards had been wounded. Five of Escobar's henchmen had been captured, but nine walked out with him. Gaviria now feared the Americans would assume that Escobar had gotten his way again because all Colombians were corrupt. The last thing Gaviria needed was for Escobar to be running loose again, setting off his car bombs and his hired assassins. Now Gaviraia was sure of one thing: This escape was Escobar's last. There would be no more investigations, negotiations, trials or imprisonment.

This soon turned violent in 1984, when Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine exporters and extraditing them to the United States for trial. His then campaign of murder, kidnapping, bombing and bribery then took into affect until his death. During this time it forced a constitutional crisis in Colombia. He paid the government into banning extradition and his murder campaign against judges and prosecutors so intimidated the nation that it abandoned trial by

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