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Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths

How many people die for every kilo of cocaine? More Or Less investigates

Pablo Escobar was one of the world’s most infamous drug traffickers. From his strong hold in Medellin, Colombia, Escobar rose from the poverty of the slums to feature on the Forbes magazine’s billionaires list. He was a folk hero in his hometown of Medellin and one of America’s most wanted men in the early 1990s. It is this world that has been brought to life in the Netflix TV drama series Narcos. We find out the deadly truth behind the numbers in the Netflix series and the realities of Colombia’s drug trade.

(Image: Posters of Pablo Escobar on a wall saying " Pablo for President". Credit: Getty Images)

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Mon 24 Oct 2016 14:50GMT

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