Colombia is planning to cull a population of wild hippos, the offspring of the drug lord’s pets, dividing a town where hippos are the main draw. Colombia is planning to cull a population of wild ...

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The DEA agents who hunted down Pablo Escobar are shedding new light on the kingpin's dangerous nature, describing a phone call where the drug lord allegedly ordered a victim's mouth covered during ...

Pablo Escobar's reign of terror didn't end with his death and continues today in the form of a horde of hippos plaguing the Colombian countryside. In an April 28 ...

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What began as a bizarre symbol of excess in a drug lord’s private zoo has turned into one of South America’s most unusual environmental crises. Deep in Colombia’s river systems, hundreds of hippos, ...

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Colombian officials said this week they planned to cull several dozen free-roaming “cocaine hippos” living in a central region of the country where they wreak havoc on local villagers, disrupt the ...

Colombian officials are set to cull around 80 wild hippos from a colony originally started by Pablo Escobar. The notorious drug lord brought four of the animals into Colombia in the 1980s for his ...

Colombian officials on Monday authorized a plan to euthanize dozens of free-range hippos that have invaded the country’s center and threatened villagers since they were first brought in by drug lord ...

Decades after the drug lord brought in the first hippos for his private zoo, their descendants have become a threat to Colombia's ecosytem. The Colombian government authorized plans on Monday to cull ...

Officials in Colombia have given the go-ahead for a plan to cull up to 80 hippos in the central region. The animals are the descendants of four brought to the country in the 80s by Pablo Escobar for ...