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[elliscraddock]

Here's 1,399th photo art that I create to honor the brother of the late drug kingpin #PabloEscobar, #RobertoEscobar @robertoescobar.gaviria @robertoescobargaviria74. (at Harlem) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZXU2MqpG9T/?utm_medium=tumblr

[quicklycybermoon-blog]

Roberto Escobar Kicks Off Another Cryptocurrency Project

The name Escobar has become notorious capturing the imagination of the masses for more than four decades now and it looks like things ain't about to change in the years to come. The king of the drug cartels have been long dead but his brother keeps the dream alive. The brother of Pablo Escobar is willing to kick Trump out of the White House and in order to do that he has decided to launch a new cryptocurrency through Escobar Inc. Roberto Escobar kickstarted a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe and surprisingly or not collected over $10 million for his Impeach Trump Fund. Indeed the initial coin offering is still live and if you dig the idea of dethroning President Trump, then perhaps this is an initiative you might like. Escobar Inc. is challenging the top position of Tether by creating a stablecoin abruptly called ESCOBAR. The CEO of the estate, Olof Gustafsson, claimed on Hark Fork: “Originally the goal was to raise $50 million just using the GoFundMe platform. After raising $10 million in just 10 hours we were shut down by GoFundMe and within 24 hours launched the ESCOBAR stablecoin cryptocurrency to avoid anyone censoring us again. We believe the Trump Administration or President Trump shut us down.” Roberto Escobar is hoping to raise $50 million dollars upon releasing one billion ESCOBAR tokens. According to the whitepaper, ESCOBAR is an ERC-20 token, meaning it will run on the top of the Ethereum blockchain. The brother of Pablo Escobar insists that each token will be fully redeemable for a US dollar because the estate has settled an agreement with a form from Belize. Furthermore, he outlines that ESCOBAR has one big advantage over other stablecoins and it is that it is being issued by a well-known company. “Yes, we had plans to release this cryptocurrency in 2019 as a stablecoin alternative to the USD Tether. We do not trust the USDT. We think that people should use our coin, as we have a much larger business sense than most other companies out there and Roberto Escobar has made hundreds of billions of dollars throughout his career,” said Daniel Reitberg, the COO of Escobar Inc. Currently, raised funds are equally split between the Impeach Trump Fund and the developers working on the token. Read the full article

[peyrani]

#Medellin #Colombia ♥️ #YoconPablo #PabloEscobar #MedellinatNight #SkyTram #SantoDomingo #PaisanosPorVida #RobertoEscobar #GettinLifted @ #EscobarFortress #HermanosPorVida #MiraBien #SelinaMedellin #CallesdeMedellin #MedellinMemories #ChingonaTravels♥️ (at Medellín, Magdalena, Colombia)

[spontaneoustripsandtravels]

Medellin - Colombia - South America - November 2015

From Lima our original plan was to head up North to Ecuador. Sadly we had only heard negative things about the country, Quito in particular. Taking these comments into account, whilst also knowing we had limited time left, we decided to bypass it and head straight for Colombia. A 40 hour bus wasn’t particularly appealing so we decided to splash out and book a flight from Lima to Bogota and then Bogota to Medellin.

We left at 5pm and arrived the following morning at about 9.30am due to delays. We hadn’t slept a wink all night & felt completely shattered.

Medellin was beautiful. It was placed between a group of mountains, extremely built up, but leafy and very green considering it remains hot for most of the year. Within moments of being there we found Colombian people adorable, so helpful, interested and friendly!

As we weren’t able to check in until 1pm we booked a 4 hour walking tour at 2.30pm and then headed out for a bite. We found a small Spanish restaurant in Medellins main bar and restaurant square, Parque Lleras. We tucked into a giant cured ham salad with Spanish Tortilla. It was delicious & cost about £4 each.

Following lunch, we had about 15 minutes to check in, shower and be out for our walking tour. The tour company was Real City Tours and they were absolutely fabulous! We learned so much in those four hours and would recommend the tour to anyone visiting Medellin. The guide took us “downtown” which isn’t usually an area tourists head as it can be intimidating, but it was great to see. The place was busy and if we weren’t with our Medellin born tour guide, both Jess and I wouldn’t have walked around this area in a million years!

Considering the majority of Colombia was a war zone 15 years ago, especially Medellin, the locals aren’t familiar with tourists and regularly invade your personal space. Colombian people would stop and shake our hands as we walked down the street. They would touch us on the shoulder and try to engage in conversation. This would be bizarre in the UK but was perfectly normal in Colombia. Jess had a lot of attention being the pasty ginge she is. She even got a cheeky “HELLO KITTY!” whilst walking down the street. As you can imagine this naturally became her name for the remainder of the day!

We visited a street with hundreds of stalls selling, what we in the UK would describe as, cheap tatt. We were told Colombia never live by the rules & the street we were looking at used to be a road, but when one person decided to set up a stall, hundreds followed. There is now a fully fledged shopping centre in place of a Supreme Court.

Whilst grabbing an empanada, we heard a lot of shouting & commotion. The next thing you know a young man is running down the road with police chasing him, followed by a dozen locals. A woman on a market stall punched the guy in the face and the police caught him. They carried him off through the crowd with the locals laughing and pointing. It was a surreal experience to say the least.

We then visited a square that used to be the most dangerous in Medellin. So much crime went on in this square so they tried to turn it around. Everything in the city that was negative, they put effort into converting it into a positive. They put large artistic LED poles around the square to light it up and give it character. They then housed all prostitutes from the area.

After a Mexican dinner with our fellow hostel friends we’d picked up along the way, we crashed. We’d been awake well over 24 hours!

The following day we took the cable car to the top of the mountain where we could see the entire city. It was beautiful and made you realise just how big the city of Medellin really was. We took a wonder around the streets of Santa Domingo, the neighbourhood that used to be the roughest in the whole of Medellin. It was filled with locals drinking and eating street food. Jess bought a dish called chuzo which consisted of chicken skewers and very thin fried potato! I went for the option of a pizza slice but after taking a bite was very taken aback. I went for a margarita however they plaster it in leche dulce, a very sweet milk sauce. It made it more of a desert! They seem to do that a lot here.

After a stroll and a bite we bumped into a friend we had made on our jungle tour. We took a stroll with him to a view point in where a bunch of locals took a real liking to Jess! One man asked if he could take a photograph of her eye. Before you know it Jess was in the middle of a photo shoot. People taking photos from every angle! It made my day!

Our last day in Medellin we had a tour booked. We’d been VERY excited about this tour although we weren’t feeling too fresh from our encounters with the Medellin nightlife. After eating A LOT, we were off on our Pablo Escobar tour!

We were picked up by Pablo Escobar’s driver himself and visited his grave. The head stone had been changed many times due to people stealing it. Pablo was the 7th richest man in the world and although he helped many poor people in Medellin he committed serious crime, taking the lives of many innocent people.

The highlight of the tour was visiting the house Pablo was murdered. His belongings were on show, numerous photos & even bullet holes where people had try to murder his brother, Roberto Escobar. We were able to meet Roberto himself which was a strange encounter. He is partially blind & deaf and has no sense of taste or smell due to a letter bomb exploding in his face. We didn’t get to ask him any questions but had a brief hand shake and a photo. Overall the tour was eye opening & taught us a lot about The Medellin Cartel.

After a quick hostel bbq we got our things together. It was time to head up north! Medellin had been such a great start to Colombia, especially considering it was once known as the most dangerous city in the world!