The fortress was specially constructed on a foggy mountainside to keep Escobar's enemies out — and not the cocaine kingpin in ...

When the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993, most of the animals he had imported as pets — zebras, giraffes, kangaroos and rhinoceroses — died or were transferred to zoos.

Colombia’s best-known drug trafficker, Pablo Escobar, may have been killed in 1993 but his influence continues to be felt in the country, sometimes in unexpected ways.. Hippopotamuses brought to ...

Decades after Pablo Escobar brought hippos to Colombia, country now dealing with dozens of them 04:43. Colombia will try to control its population of more than 100 hippopotamuses, descendants of ...

Decades after Pablo Escobar brought hippos to Colombia, country now dealing with dozens of them 04:43. Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals ...

I grew up in Pablo Escobar’s Colombia. Here’s what it was really like. by Bernardo Aparicio García. Oct 21, ... but what Colombian could view the story of Pablo Escobar as entertainment?

Pablo Escobar's hippos keep multiplying and Colombia doesn't know how to stop it 05:41. Álvaro Molina has had his run-ins with the burly bunch of neighbors with disreputable contacts who showed ...

The Colombian government is poised to spend $3.5 million to transfer about half of Pablo Escobar’s invasive “cocaine hippos” out of their country.. Colombian officials said they are dealing ...

Pablo Escobar's hippos keep multiplying and Colombia doesn't know how to stop it 05:41. Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar's former ranch ...

Hippos—descendants from a small herd smuggled into Colombia by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar—are seen in the wild in a lake near Hacienda Nápoles on April 19, 2023.

One of Pablo Escobar’s invasive “cocaine hippos” was struck and killed by a car in the middle of a Colombian highway.. Officials in Puerto Triunfo said the semiaquatic mammal was hit Tuesday ...

FILE - Tourists buy souvenirs of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, featured as a statue with a sign that says one will be charged for taking photos inside a store in Doradal, Colombia, Feb. 5, 2021.