Should you watch Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord?
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Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord
Series · 2012
Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.
The sides of Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord
- The life of Pablo Escobar from petty crime to cartel boss
- A drug lord elected to Congress
- Colombia under the Medellín cartel's war
Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord is good for you if…
- you want the story of Pablo Escobar told from Colombia, about the country that lived through him.
- you like following how a cocaine empire was built, step by step.
- you like watching money buy politics until the state fights back.
Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord is bad for you if…
- you won't read subtitles for a Spanish-language series.
- you can't watch bombings and murders that happened to real people.
- a telenovela with daily-length episodes is too much for you.
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