Hidden fortune found in Pablo Escobar's house Atoning for the sins of a brother The rise of the so-called "cocaine hippos" began in 1993 after authorities killed Pablo Escobar and seized his ...

Four decades ago, Pablo Escobar brought to his Medellín hideaway four hippopotamuses, the centerpieces of a menagerie that included llamas, cheetahs, lions, tigers, ostriches and other exotic fauna.

Pablo Escobar’s Abandoned Hippos Are Wreaking Havoc in the Colombian Jungle Story by Joshua Hammer • 3mo I n the steamy heat of afternoon, Yamit Diaz Romero steered our motorized longboat ...

The late drug lord, Pablo Escobar, imported four hippos from Africa in the 1980s. The animals have since reproduced and grown significantly in numbers. [Courtesy of Getty Images] Colombia is ...

The fate of a herd of hippos once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar has been sealed ... ‘ethical euthanasia’ and lack of will ...

Through resolution 346 of 2022, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development declared hippos an invasive species. The decision was made on the basis of the results of the evaluation of ...

Their existence in the country began with the import of four individuals by drug lord Pablo Escobar. The four hippopotamuses later escaped into the wild. In January, biologists and other experts ...

Colombia plans to deport at least 70 of the "cocaine hippos" that live in and around Pablo Escobar's former ranch, CBS News reported. The drug lord illegally imported hippopotamuses to his ...

Bogota The infamous Pablo Escobar, who terrorized Colombia during the 1980s and early 1990s, resulted in thousands of deaths. And in the 1980s, he smuggled four hippos from a wildlife park in ...

Hippos float in the lake at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who imported three female hippos and one male decades ago, in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, ...