Pablo Escobar - Drug baron and local saint - 21 March 08

  • 12 years ago
He was once one of the United States' most wanted men, earning millions as a drug dealer and killing anyone who got in his way. But now Pablo Escobar is revered as a saint in Colombia, having built houses for the poor and provided jobs for the unemployed, before he was killed in 1993. Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports from his home town of Medellin.

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