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Pablo escobar elastic bands.
Raised in the nearby city of medellín escobar is thought to have begun his criminal.
Legendary drug lord pablo escobar lost 2 1 billion in cash each year to hungry rats.
We ve heard a lot of pablo escobar recently.
In the book the accountant s story.
How do we know pablo escobar spent 2500 a month on rubber bands.
Here s how much pablo escobar spent on elastic bands each month.
Despite his humble origins pablo escobar became the leader of the medellín cartel which was responsible for 80 of the global cocaine market.
During its heyday pablo escobar s drug cartel spent 2 500 per month on rubber bands for bricks of cash.
And he expensed 2 500 on rubber bands each month.
2006 an elementary school teacher.
Mental floss has a interesting profile of the drug lord.
Pablo emilio escobar gaviria was born on 1 december 1949 in rionegro in the antioquia department of colombia he was the third of seven children of the farmer abel de jesús dari escobar echeverri 1910 2001 with his wife hilda de los dolores gaviria berrío d.
Pablo s brother roberto once claimed that the cartel was spending an upwards of 2 500 every month just on rubber bands to keep their money together.
According to roberto escobar the medellín cartel spent an estimated 2 500 a month on rubber bands needed to hold stacks of bills together.
You should see his rubber band budget.
The profits were astronomical at.
We know that pablo escobar spent so much on ribber bands thanks to his brother roberto.
Legendary drug lord pablo escobar lost 2 1 billion in cash each year and it didn t matter.
Roberto was escobar s accountant and can recall that about 15 tons of cocaine worth about half a billion dollars was being smuggled into the us every day.