http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/movies/30pabl.html
-As “Entourage,” television’s fictionalized Hollywood chronicle, wrapped its season last month, the agent extraordinaire Ari Gold saw his client’s dream movie about the Medellín drug cartel hammered by the audience and would-be buyers at the Cannes Film Festival.
-Born to middle-class parents in 1949, Pablo Escobar Gaviria stole and resold tombstones, then cars, before becoming an organizing force among Colombian street thugs who hit the jackpot as the country’s cocaine trade exploded in the 1970s. He bribed authorities, ordered killings and, at his peak, lived with the improbable trappings of a Charles Foster Kane: His possessions included submarines, a fleet of airliners and a vast estate, Hacienda Los Nápoles, complete with a private zoo.
-After the 1989 bombing of an airliner in which United States citizens were killed, American operatives joined Colombian authorities in their war on the cartel and its leader. Driven into hiding, Escobar played cat and mouse with police and the military until Dec. 2, 1993, when he was cornered by 500 police officers and soldiers, and shot to death. The killing led to deep mourning among many of the Colombian poor, for whom he was something of a Robin Hood, turning American dollars into food, housing and jobs.
-This example shows that media has become more globalized and continues to depict movies or televisions shows based on a county's history. Colombia's drug lord, Pablo Escobar, has become a Hollywood character.
