Escobar: The Fall of El Patron

Narcos & Cartels · Oct 30, 2026 · 36m

In the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties, Colombia becomes the center of a cocaine trade moving roughly eighty percent of the supply reaching the United States. Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellin Cartel and known to his own people as El Patron, meaning The Boss, builds a billion dollar empire through bribery, public works and open war on the Colombian state. His organization earns an estimated sixty million dollars a day at its height, protected by a payroll that reaches police commanders, judges and politicians. A dedicated Colombian pursuit unit, the Search Bloc, forms…