Download or read book Escobar s Shadow written by Scarlett Prescott and published by . This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Escobar's Shadow: The Complex Legacy of a Notorious Criminal," delve into the gripping tale of one of the world's most infamous criminals, Pablo Escobar. This book unravels the life of the Colombian drug lord and leader of the notorious Medellin Cartel, who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful criminals in history. Tracing his early life and rise to power, the narrative unveils how Escobar started in the criminal world with petty theft and contraband cigarettes, eventually becoming a key player in the marijuana trade and forming the infamous Medellin Cartel. As the drug empire grew, so did the violence and terror, with Escobar employing ruthless tactics to eliminate rivals and maintain control over drug trafficking routes. The book delves into the establishment of an extensive smuggling network and Escobar's connections with international cartels, leading to his immense wealth and influence, making him one of the richest men in the world. However, this wealth came at a grave cost, as Escobar's reign of narco-terrorism left a lasting impact on Colombian society, with bombings, assassinations, and kidnappings striking fear into the hearts of millions. As you navigate the pages, explore the consequences of narco-terrorism on Colombian society and government institutions, the infiltration of Colombian politics and law enforcement by the Medellin Cartel, and the formation of the vigilante group "Los Pepes" to target Escobar and his associates. The book doesn't stop at the drug lord's eventual surrender and imprisonment; it delves into his continued involvement in criminal activities from behind bars, his escape from prison, and the final, dramatic showdown that led to his death in Medellin on December 2, 1993. Beyond the riveting tale of Escobar's life, "Escobar's Shadow" delves into the broader impact of his legacy on Colombian history and culture, the ongoing fight against drug trafficking and organized crime, and the complex lessons learned from one of the darkest periods in the world's criminal history. In this compelling account, readers will confront the complexities of one man's actions and the far-reaching consequences of the drug trade, ultimately questioning the thin line between notoriety and condemnation. "Escobar's Shadow" is a haunting and thought-provoking exploration of the enduring legacy of a man who continues to cast a long shadow over the world's fight against drug-related violence and corruption.
Download or read book Manhunters written by Steve Murphy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, legendary DEA operatives Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña tell the true story of how they helped put an end to one of the world’s most infamous narco-terrorists in Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar—the subject of the hit Netflix series, Narcos. Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s brutal Medellín Cartel was responsible for trafficking tons of cocaine to North America and Europe in the 1980s and ’90s. The nation became a warzone as his sicarios mercilessly murdered thousands of people—competitors, police, and civilians—to ensure he remained Colombia’s reigning kingpin. With billions in personal income, Pablo Escobar bought off politicians and lawmen, and became a hero to poorer communities by building houses and sports centers. He was nearly untouchable despite the efforts of the Colombian National Police to bring him to justice. But Escobar was also one of America’s most wanted, and the Drug Enforcement Administration was determined to see him pay for his crimes. Agents Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña were assigned to the Bloque de Búsqueda, the joint Colombian-U.S. taskforce created to end Escobar’s reign of terror. For eighteen months, between July 1992 and December 1993, Steve and Javier lived and worked beside Colombian authorities, finding themselves in the crosshairs of sicarios targeting them for the $300,000 bounty Escobar placed on each of their heads. Undeterred, they risked the dangers, relentlessly and ruthlessly separating the drug lord from his resources and allies, and tearing apart his empire, leaving him underground and on the run from enemies on both sides of the law. Manhunters presents Steve and Javier’s history in law enforcement from their rigorous physical training and their early DEA assignments in Miami and Austin to the Escobar mission in Medellin, Colombia—living far from home and serving as frontline soldiers in the never ending war on drugs that continues to devastate America.
Download or read book Encountering Development written by Arturo Escobar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.
Download or read book Shadow Masters written by Daniel Estulin and published by Trine Day. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation examines how behind-the-scenes collaboration between governments, intelligence services and drug traffickers has lined the pockets of big business and Western banks. Beginning with a last-minute request from ex-governor Jesse Ventura, the narrative winds between the author's own story of covering "deep politics" and the facts he has uncovered. The ongoing campaign against Victor Bout, the "Merchant of Death," is revealed as "move/countermove" in a game of geopolitics, set against the background of a crumbling Soviet Union, a nascent Russia, bizarre assassinations, wars and smuggling.
Download or read book In the Shadow of Liberty written by Ana Raquel Minian and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations around migration. In 2018, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under Trump's "family separation" policy. But as historian Ana Raquel Minian reveals in In the Shadow of Liberty, this was only the latest chapter in a saga tracing back to the 1800s—one in which immigrants to the United States have been held without recourse to their constitutional rights. Braiding together the vivid stories of four migrants seeking to escape the turmoil of their homelands for the promise of America, In the Shadow of Liberty gives this history a human face, telling the dramatic story of a Central American asylum seeker, a Cuban exile, a European war bride, and a Chinese refugee. As we travel alongside these indelible characters, In the Shadow of Liberty explores how sites of rightlessness have evolved, and what their existence has meant for our body politic. Though these "black sites" exist out of view for the average American, their reach extends into all of our lives: the explosive growth of the for-profit prison industry traces its origins to the immigrant detention system, as does the emergence of Guantanamo and the gradual unraveling of the right to bail and the presumption of innocence. Through these narratives, we see how the changing political climate surrounding immigration has played out in individual lives, and at what cost. But as these stories demonstrate, it doesn't have to be like this, and a better way might be possible.
Download or read book Shadows of La Paz written by Rowena R. Conrad and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 4:30 on a Saturday morning at Barrio Santa Inez, in the town of La Paz, Zambales. Gabriel Alvarez is roused from sleep by a farmer who has come to report that four thieves are making off with the coffin of a recently buried, rich Chinese businessman. Compelled to pursue the perpetrators but with no police in sight, Alvarez enlists the help of a gun-toting cousin. While the two men scour the cemetery for clues, they stumble upon a body crammed in a sack. After it is identified, Philippine Constabulary investigators descend on the province, focusing on Gabriels relations and his past dalliance with a mysterious woman. Desperate and on the run, he gets help from a powerful politician with a great debt of gratitude to pay...but one who has much to lose. As the story unfolds and secrets come to light, Barrio Captain Alvarez realizes that the past has come to revisit him, and that he has become a pawn in one mans grand ambition. His only hope of salvation lies in a faith healer whose unusual methods border the bizarre. From the beaches of Zambales to the Hundred Islands of Lingayen; from the seedy strips of Subic to the slopes of a dormant volcano, Alvarez races for his life, his pursuers never far behind. Meanwhile, in their midst lives a woman trapped in a nightmare whose dark tortured mind has a story to tell. Love, heroism and diseased souls - La Paz has it all.
Download or read book Killing Pablo written by Mark Bowden and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The story of how the U.S. Army Intelligence . . . helped Colombian police track down and kill Pablo Escobar is a compelling, almost Shakespearean tale.” —Los Angeles Times When the cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar escaped his lavish, custom built prison in Colombia, the fallout drove the nation to the brink of chaos. In Killing Pablo, acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden tells the story of the US military’s fifteen-month mission to find him. Drawing on unprecedented access to the soldiers, field agents, and officials involved in the chase, as well as hundreds of pages of top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar’s intercepted phone conversations, Bowden creates a narrative that reads as if it were torn from the pages of a Tom Clancy thriller. Bowden also tells the story of Escobar’s rise, how he built a criminal organization that would hold an entire nation hostage—and the stories of the intrepid men who would ultimately bring him down. The cast of characters ranges from the US ambassador to Colombia and special forces commandos to Escobar’s archenemy, Col. Hugo Martinez. It was Martinez’s son, raised in the shadow of constant threat from Escobar’s followers, who would ultimately track the fugitive to a Bogota rooftop on the fateful day in 1993 when the outlaw would finally meet his end. Killing Pablo is a tour de force of narrative journalism and a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world.
Download or read book Nip Tuck written by Roz Kaveney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoted as a 'disturbingly perfect' and 'deeply shallow' television drama and created by Ryan Murphy, who is also behind the teen musical show Glee, Nip/Tuck has been one of the most popular and controversial shows on cable TV. The misadventures and soap opera-esque entanglements of the lives of plastic surgeons Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) won Golden Globes and boycotts from the American Family Association. Yet, as this first full critical examination of Nip/Tuck shows, ironically the show is an examination of the American family and its many definitions, anxieties and complications of gender and sexuality, and the class issues and illusions surrounding the American dream. It is also revealed as a glorious televisual melodrama, full of Gothic tropes and contemporary sensationalism and at the same time, a deeply misanthropic satire on the American dream with a sometimes highly problematic portrayal of women and minorities. The book also features an interview with frequent Nip/Tuck director Elodie Keene and an episode guide.
Download or read book Pablo Escobar written by Sebastián Marroquín and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular series Narcos captures only half the truth. This riveting, deeply personal memoir by Pablo Escobar's son reveals the full story.
Download or read book Pablo Escobar The Emperor Of Narcos written by Nicky Huys and published by Nicky Huys. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pablo Escobar: The Emperor of Narcos" chronicles the life of one of the most infamous drug lords in history. From his humble beginnings to becoming the leader of the Medellín Cartel, Escobar's story is one of ambition, power, and violence. The book delves into his role in the explosive growth of global cocaine trade, his Robin Hood-like persona, and the war he waged against the Colombian government. Featuring personal accounts and investigative details, this biography offers a compelling look at the man behind the myths and the impact he had on Colombia and the world.
Download or read book Killing Pablo written by Mark Bowden and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soccer in Sun and Shadow written by Eduardo Galeano and published by Verso. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the origins of soccer to the 1994 World Cup played in the U.S., one of Latin America's most fluent and widely-read commentators captures the enduring appeal of the world's greatest game, seeking out the mystical and the bewitched, the romance and the emotional destitution experienced by players and fans throughout the world.
Download or read book A Song Beyond Walls written by Stephanie Escobar and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Song Beyond Walls" is a unique love story between Claire, a Victorian-era spirit who has been haunting her home since her death . . . and Dorian, the young man who moves into the dusty, dilapidated house in 1923; and how the two of them set each other free despite the barrier between them.
Download or read book Son of Escobar written by Roberto Sendoya Escobar and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pablo Escobar was the most notorious drug lord the world has ever seen. He became one of the ten richest men on the planet and controlled 80 per cent of the global cocaine trade before he was shot dead in 1993.In 1965, a secret mission by Colombian Special Forces, led by an MI6 agent, to recover a cash hoard from a safe house used by a young Pablo Escobar culminates in a shoot-out leaving many dead. Escobar and several of his men escape. Only a baby survives, Roberto Sendoya Escobar. In a bizarre twist of fate, the MI6 agent takes pity on the child, brings him home and later adopts him.Over the years, Pablo Escobar tries, repeatedly, to kidnap his son. The child, unaware of his true identity, is allowed regular meetings with Escobar and it becomes apparent that Roberto's adopted father and the British government are working covertly with the gangster in an attempt to control the money laundering and drug trades. Many years later in England, as Roberto's father lies dying in hospital, he hands his son a coded piece of paper which, he says, reveals the secret hiding place of Escobar's 'missing millions'. The code is published in this book for the first time.
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Download or read book Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture written by Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration of Escobar’s impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how his legacy inspired the development of narcoculture—television, music, literature, and fashion representing the drug-trafficking lifestyle—in Colombia and around the world. Pobutsky looks at the ways the “Escobar brand” surfaces in bars, restaurants, and clothing lines; in Colombia’s tourist industry; and in telenovelas, documentaries, and narco memoirs about his life, which in turn have generated popular interest in other drug traffickers such as Griselda Blanco and Miami’s “cocaine cowboys.” Pobutsky illustrates how the Colombian state strives to erase his memory while Escobar’s notoriety only continues to increase in popular culture through the transnational media. She argues that the image of Escobar is inextricably linked to Colombia’s internal tensions in the areas of cocaine politics, gender relations, class divisions, and political corruption and that his “brand” perpetuates the country’s reputation as a center of organized crime, to the dismay of the Colombian people. This book is a fascinating study of how the world perceives Colombia and how Colombia’s citizens understand their nation’s past and present. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Download or read book A Handbook of the history of the Spanish and French Schools of Painting written by Edmund Walker HEAD (Right Hon. Sir) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
