El Patrón - World's richest and most wanted drug lord or a humanitarian ? Probably both.

"I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar, became the most successful criminal in history, but also a hero to many of the people of Colombia. My brother was loved and he was feared. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in his funeral procession, and certainly as many people celebrated his death." - Roberto Escobar - the top accountant for the notorious and deadly Medellin Cartel, and brother of Pablo Escobar, the most famous drug lord in history.

At the height of his reign, Pablo's multi-billion dollar operation smuggled tons of cocaine each week into countries all over the world. Roberto and his ten accountants kept track of all the money. Only Pablo and Roberto knew where it was stashed - and what it bought.

And the amounts of money were simply staggering. According to Roberto, it cost $2,500 every month just to purchase the rubber bands needed to wrap the stacks of cash. The biggest problem was finding a place to store it: from secret compartments in walla and beneath swimming pools to banks and warehouses everywhere. There was so much money that Roberto would sometimes write off ten percent as "spoilage," meaning either the rats chewed up the bills or dampness had ruined the cash.

Pablo built entire towns, gave away thousands of houses,paid people's medical expenses, and built schools and hospitals. Yet he was responsible for the horrible deaths of thousands of people. Its a story of a world of riches beyond mortal imagination and in his own words, in the book - The Accountant's Story - Roberto Escobar (with David Fisher) tells all: building a magnificent zoo at Pablo's opulent home, the brothers' many escapes into the jungles of Colombia, devising ingenious methods to smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States, bribing officials with literally millions of dollars - and building a personal army to protect the Escobar family against an array of enemies sworn to kill them.

Few men in history have been more beloved-or despised- then Pablo Escobar. There are two schools of thought on Pablo, who was killed by a joint American/Colombian operation in 1993. The conventional assessment is of a murderous, power-crazed narco-boss who opened the sluicegates to a river of Colombian blood. Unsurprisingly, Roberto Escobar subscribes to the second, minority view. This sees Pablo as driven by the plight of Colombia's poor.

As they say, most stories have 2 sides and, the truth often lies somewhere in the middle. Its up to us, individually, to believe either or both or none ..