Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, (December 1, 1949 - December 2, 1993), was a Colombian drug lord. Escobar gained world infamy from the drug trade and in 1989 Forbes magazine listed him as the seventh richest man in the world.

Escobar studied political science at the Universidad de Antioquia, but he was forced to drop out when he couldn't afford to pay the necessary fees. Before he started his criminal career in smuggling contraband, he would buy very old tombstones from cemetery owners who would remove bodies from the ground many years after the last person came to pay respects. He brought the tombstones to his uncle's shop to be cleaned and used again. When Escobar discovered he could make a lot more money smuggling cocaine, he stopped smuggling contraband. He slowly built a large organization through buying people's loyalty, rather than the common belief that he used fear. Escobar knew that profits generated more loyalty than fear. He eventually developed brilliant methods of smuggling cocaine effectively, and that's when his notoriously violent criminal career began to augment.

Reference - (The Accountant's Story, as told by Pablo Escobar's brother, Roberto Escobar)