In the summer of 1989, the world’s most wanted drug lord had narrowly averted assassination, challenged extradition treaties, dared the law to take him to war, and pulled in enough illicit cash to retain his spot on Forbes magazine’s coveted list of the world’s richest people. Thirty years ago, Colombia’s Pablo Escobar was the undisputed king of the cocaine cowboys. This is a look back at that wild era of the 1980s, to explore the myths and the man who will likely be the proverbial poster boy of illicit drug kings for decades to come. Escobar’s notoriety rocketed to a whole new ...