He had a round face and wore a slight mustache. The Young Thugīy the age of sixteen Pablo had developed into a plump, short youth, standing at just over five foot, six inches. Part of this counterculture movement involved experimentation with drugs, leading the thirteen-year-old future drug kingpin to develop an addiction to marijuana which would never leave him. Pablo became part of a youth culture movement known as Nadaismo which encouraged young people to thumb their noses at the established order, disobey their parents and write their own rules. By the time he was in his early teens, Pablo was attending street rallies and participating in such activities as throwing rocks at the police.
Many of his teachers were involved in social causes, especially the struggle for class equality and they became powerful influences on the boy.
Although tending toward the chubby side, thanks to his love of fast food, he was talented in all ball sports, with a special love for soccer. Through her work at the school, Hermilda soon become a popular and well-respected member of the community.Īt school, Pablo proved himself to be an able and quick-witted student. Abel sold the farm and took up a job as a neighbourhood watchman. The violence that was part and parcel of enforcing the narcotics trade was all around.īefore Pablo started school, the family moved to Envigado, a small village just out of Medellin, so that Hermilda could establish an elementary school there. Although not everyone directly participated in the drug business, they all had a powerful incentive in the protection of those that did. Pablo, the second of seven children, was raised in a middle-class environment in a community that was fuelled by the cocaine and marijuana trade. The city of Medellín, where Escobar grew up and began his criminal career.
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