An unlikely invasive species in Colombia left behind by one of the country’s most notorious figures is wreaking havoc. Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamuses are running wild and Colombian officials don’t ...

Colombia’s plans to relocate 70 “cocaine hippos” descended from drug trafficker Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie will cost approximately $3.5 million, officials said in a press conference Wednesday.

BOGOTA, Colombia — The drug lord Pablo Escobar won worldwide notoriety for the cocaine he smuggled out of Colombia. Less familiar is what he smuggled in. In the late 1970s, the billionaire Medellín ...

If you speak a little Spanish and recently have spent a bit of time anywhere near the border, you've probably heard a narcocorrido, a ballad sung to danceable Norteno-style music with lyrics that ...

Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female ...

The late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar had a taste for the exotic. He famously stocked his private zoo with giraffes, zebras and hippopotamuses, and some of those African hippos escaped into the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — The widow of Pablo Escobar fell madly in love as a preteen with the man who would rise to be a ruthless drug lord, but she says she felt raped when at age 14 he forced her to have a ...