While still a kid he grew up very poor, just like the rest of the area he was born in. From his birth he was just a normal kid living in a normal family that didn't have much funds from his family to support him. Although he was very poor his family wanted him to get an education, and sent him to school many schools. Although his parents wanted to get him an education he was sent home from two schools for not having enough money to buy the right shoes and pay for the funds (Pablo Escobar-Life and Influence of Pablo Escobar on Columbia). Pablo, even while attending grade school people started the future man that he was soon about to become.
Crime.
Pablo started off with small crimes with his younger brother Roberto (Pablo Escobar-Life and Influence of Pablo Escobar on Columbia). They started off with small crimes such as stealing and doing drugs (Pablo Escobar-Life and Influence of Pablo Escobar on Columbia). A little while later he started stealing gravestones from local graveyards, grinding them down and then selling them (Pablo Escobar-Life and Influence of Pablo Escobar on Columbia). Although this was not just gravestones, he started selling fake cigarettes as well as fake lottery tickets (Pablo Escobar-Life and Influence of Pablo Escobar on Columbia). Soon after his involvement with his brother stealing and selling fake contraband he soon met up with the local smuggler Alvaro Pietro. While making a quick million in his early twenties smuggling drugs he got in an argument with a local drug lord, bigger then Alvaro and killed him (Pablo Escobar-Life and Influence of Pablo Escobar on Columbia). This led to his take over of the Medellin gang, his reign of violence, and his smuggling of fifteen tons a day of cocaine (Pablo Escobar-Life and Influence of Pablo Escobar on Columbia).
Violence.
Pablo Escobar's violence was strained from his involvement in the cocaine industry. He had a private so called "Army" of over 1,000 men that were hired and train specifically to protect him and his lucrative drug operation (Watson).