AHC: Make Pablo Escobar president of Colombia

He always had plans to become president. Obviously the POD would have to be before he started a war against Colombia, as this made him universally despised.

Is this ASB or is there some way he could had accomplished this?
 
Well, it is certainly not impossible, unlikely yes but not impossible. For example, there is that football (soccer) club whose name I cannot recall at the moment that he was involved with and the supporters there absolutely love him!
Certainly, that could be a starting point of sorts.
 
In For all Time there are POTUS Jim Jones and Soviet leader Andrei Chikatilo also I remember there was a president Al Capone in a TL. So why not? Actually I wonder why somebody hadn't use this idea so far.
 

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It doesn't seem particularly more unlikely than Evo Morales's win in Bolivia.

Two changes are probably necessary, neither of which are that unlikely. The first being that Escobar's mug shot, taken when he was arrested in 1977, never gets published following Escobar's election to Congress. The second change would be Escobar getting wind that Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara was going to denounce him in congress and has him assassinated before he can.
 
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