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Roberto de Jesús Escobar Gaviria (born January 13, 1947), nicknamed El Osito ("the little bear" or "the teddy bear") [a], is the brother of deceased drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, and the former accountant and co-founder of the Medellín Cartel, [1] which was responsible for up to 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States.
Roberto Escobar (born 1927 in Buenos Aires) and Igón Lerchundi (born 1934 in Basque Country) were pioneers in the art of miming in Argentina and in Latin America. In 1959 they both founded the "Compañía Argentina de Mimos" (Argentine Mime Company) and toured around many countries in America and Europe .
Escobar (2010), by Roberto Escobar, written by his brother shows how he became infamous and ultimately died. [78] Escobar Gaviria, Roberto (2016). My Brother – Pablo Escobar. Escobar, Inc. ISBN 978-0692706374. Kings of Cocaine (1989), by Guy Gugliotta, retells the history and operations of the Medellín Cartel, and Escobar's role within it. [79]
Roberto Fernández Retamar, President of the Casa de las Américas Ricardo Alarcón , President of the Cuban National Assembly Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín , former Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment
Roberto Escobar (cousin) Gustavo de Jesús Gaviria Rivero (25 December 1946 – 11 August 1990) was a Colombian drug trafficker . As Pablo Escobar 's cousin and right-hand man , Gaviria controlled the Medellín cartel 's finances and trade routes.
During the 1980s, Suárez' relationship with Escobar slowly deteriorated because of Escobar's murderous activities, which contrasted with Suárez's use of violence only as a last resort. [12] In 1981, Suárez's favored son Roberto "Robby" Levy was arrested in Switzerland and was extradited to the United States. [13]
In July 2019, Escobar Inc started selling a propane torch made to look like a flamethrower and accused The Boring Company CEO Elon Musk of intellectual property theft, alleging that The Boring Company's promotional Not-a-Flamethrower is based on a design that Roberto Escobar discussed in 2017 with an engineer associated with Musk. [14]
His mother was the victim of several unsuccessful assassination attempts by the Pepes, [4] and his brother Roberto, despite being in prison, was the victim of a letter bomb sent by the Pepes that left him blind in one eye. [5] [6] Escobar faced threats from the Colombian police, the U.S. government and his rivals Los Pepes, and the Cali Cartel.