Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord
An investigation into the bloody rise and fall of Pablo Escobar and how the empire he built set the stage for the modern narco-trafficking industry. (Aired 1995) This archival FRONTLINE documentary examines how one drug, cocaine, began flowing into the U.S. at an industrial scale in the 1970s and 1980s — and the pivotal role of the notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, the boss of the Medellin cocaine cartel.
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