Posted on 09/24/2012 11:17:03 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Photos of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s abandoned private island
At the height of his power, Pablo Escobar was worth an estimated $3 billion (USD) and his Medellín Cartel controlled 80% of the global cocaine market. So he may have had a few extra dollars to throw around on a private island. In fact, many drug lords had luxurious villas on small islands off the coast of Cartagena, islands that have since been abandoned by their human occupants.
Urban explorer and photographer Stefaan Beernaert, also known as Fotantje, has explored the islands off Catagena and photographed the so-called "Drug Islands." These images came from Escobar's own palatial estate, whose sole resident seems to be a rather large sow. But Beernaert came across several other drug lord houses, from a former guard house (now occupied by a squatter) to a building made of coral. So on top of the drug business, the owner of that particular home was a reef killer.
These silent, crumbling homes are a far cry from what they once were: places where the cartel leaders could throw parties, relax, and plot their next business moves.
Pablo Escobar's villa
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Abandoned swimming pool at Escobar's villa 
The dead drug lord's abandoned mansion ... constructed out of sea coral
An unfinished Escobar project
Escobar's "Drug Island"
The last remaining resident living on the Escobar estate
Future site of the Barack H.Obama Presidential Library and Retirement Home.
What makes you think the Columbians want it there? Best bet is to move all this stuff to the land of his birth: Kenya!
What makes you think the Columbians want it there? Best bet is to move all this stuff to the land of his birth: Kenya!
God promises one kind of mansion. Mammon promises another.
You’re right, I should have more compassion for our Colombian friends. Put him in downtown Nairobi.
It looks like a training area for urban ops.
Lots of buildings, finished and unfinished. Seems as if ol’ Pablo suffered from what my dad used to call “Berserk Beaver Syndrome”
>>>berserk beaver sydrome<<<
That ‘ere is a fine expression.
You see some folks who never build, fix or clean up anything.
At the other end are those who never stop starting.
80% of the world’s cocaine only equals $3 billion USD?
I’d have thought it’d be in the trillions; silly me.
“Future site of the Barack H.Obama Presidential Library and Retirement Home.”
Bwahahahaha!!!!!!
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