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From El Mencho To Pablo Escobar: Crime Lords Of Latin America And The Urban Legends ...

News18 23 Feb 2026
The stories of North and South America’s most notorious crime lords, from Pablo Escobar to El Mencho, are as complex and enduring as the shadow economies they helped shape ....
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From El Mencho to El Chapo to Pablo Escobar: How the world’s most notorious drug lords built global empires

The Times of India 23 Feb 2026
At the same time, the violence linked to cartel rivalries led to thousands of deaths.Pablo Escobar turned cocaine trafficking into a global businessYears earlier in Colombia, Pablo Escobar had already shaped the model of the modern drug empire.
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Ryan Wedding allegedly hired group linked to Pablo Escobar to kill informant: Prosecutors

Toronto Sun 18 Feb 2026
prosecutors say.Advertisement 2. Story continues below ... Article content ... La Oficina originated in the 1980s when members of the criminal organization provided enforcement and collection services for the Medellín Cartel, including the late Pablo Escobar.
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Pablo Escobar’s Hitmen Who Are Still Alive Today

Colombia One 09 Feb 2026
More than thirty years after Pablo Escobar’s death, there are more than a dozen of his long list of hitmen still alive ... Pablo Escobar’s hitmen were known by their aliases ... The figure of the hitman in Pablo Escobar’s Colombia.
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'I got into a brief Pablo Escobar type-story. I was very close to being caught'

Haaretz 30 Jan 2026
This week at Ben-Gurion Airport. An Eilat man shaped by a formative experience at a military boarding school, and an L.A. stylist returning to Israel to see whether she can find a home here again after October 7 ....
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Moroccan who posed as Pablo Escobar's son guilty of extortion, had mixed with Chicago power brokers

Chicago Sun-Times 27 Jan 2026
During the six-day trial, jurors learned that Fakroune masqueraded as Angelino Escobar, a son of the late Colombian cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar — even though Fakroune doesn’t speak Spanish ... Medellin drug cartel leader Pablo Escobar ... Getty Images ... ....
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Why feds call Olympic snowboarder a 'modern-day Pablo Escobar'

ESPN 24 Jan 2026
Former Olympian Ryan Wedding was arrested Friday. Here's what we know about his case ... .
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Ex-Olympian charged with murder, drug offences, as FBI likens him to Pablo Escobar

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 23 Jan 2026
Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding has been charged with drug trafficking, multiple murders, and has been linked to Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel ... .
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'Modern-day Pablo Escobar': FBI director Kash Patel briefs how former Canada Olympian Ryan Wedding has been arrested in Mexico

The Times of India 23 Jan 2026
FBI director Kash Patel called Ryan Wedding 'modern day Pablo Escobar' after Wedding was arrested by the FBI in Mexico making this the agency's 500th capture in the history of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list ... .
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“Who do you think I am, Pablo Escobar?"

Manchester Evening News 16 Jan 2026
He was caught with thousands of pounds and devices he should not have had ... .
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Who is Wagner Moura? Brazilian star famed for playing Pablo Escobar in Narcos makes history ...

The Daily Mail 12 Jan 2026
It was the role of a lifetime when in 2014 Wagner Moura was cast in hit series Narcos as the Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar ....
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Ex-La Liga star turned drug trafficker led cartel but claims 'I'm not Pablo Escobar'

The Mirror 11 Jan 2026
This former La Liga forward played for his childhood club and became a club legend in Greece, but his life was disrupted when he was arrested for drug trafficking in 2019 ... .
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How Canada’s snowboarding prodigy became the next Pablo Escobar

AOL 30 Dec 2025
Three decades later, the 44-year-old – whose nicknames include “El Jefe,” meaning “The Boss,” and “Giant” – has been described by the FBI as the most dangerous and prolific drug dealer since Pablo Escobar ... .
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