10 Things about Pablo Escobar

Pablo Escobar
Premiere Date:April 03, 2012 - 02:00-02:30AM ET
Pablo Escobar was Colombia's king of cocaine, a man his own government was afraid to touch. But he also violated the dead, set fire to millions in cash to keep warm and actually helped the US hunt down Osama Bin Laden. Outspoken historian David Eisenbach probes the world of narcotrafficking and uncovers things you didn't know about Escobar.


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Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's life is examined.

Pablo Escobar
Escobar is a pothead
Escobar's first victims are already dead
Escobar trafficks in cocaine-soaked designer jeans
Colombia's government helps Escobar launder his drug profits
Escobar succeeds by being both loved and feared
Escobar starts a war against his own country
Escobar burns $2M in a bonfire to keep warm
Escobar's pursuers use the own tactics to take him down
Escobar rises from the grave
Escobar helps America kill Osama bin Laden