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Roberto de Jesus Escobar Gaviria

Roberto de Jesus "El Osito" Escobar Gaviria (13 January 1947-) is the older brother of Pablo Escobar and the accountant of the Medellin Cartel.

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Roberto de Jesus Escobar Gaviria was born in Rionegro, Colombia on 13 January 1947, the older brother of Pablo Escobar and Luis Fernando Escobar Gaviria. In 1965, he won third place in a national cycling competition, and he coached the Colombian cycling team in international competitions. Roberto later came to work alongside his brother in the drug industry during the 1970s, and he would become the logistics chief of the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s; he also served as its chief of assassins from 1987 to 1988. On 18 August 1993, he was blinded in one eye in a letter bombing while he was in prison, and he was released from prison in 2003.

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