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01/12/1949 Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar is born

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Escobar was born in Rionegro, Colombia and grew up in nearby Medellín. He studied briefly at Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana of Medellin but left without a degree and began to engage in criminal activity. In the 1970s, he began to work for various contraband smugglers before beginning to distribute powder cocaine himself.