BOGOTA, Colombia >> Colombia today 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 ...

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar once owned a heard of hipposThis summer, real estate broker Amelia Gewirtz snail-mailed a thick sheath of papers to everyone on her contact list, including all of her ...

The drug kingpin brought four hippos to his estate in the 1980s. Officials estimate that about 170 now roam Colombia, and say the population must be controlled to protect the country’s ecosystem. By ...

In the 1980s, known drug kingpin Pablo Escobar brought a group of hippopotamuses from Africa to live on his private Colombian estate but after his death the mammals were set free. Natives say the ...

Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’. President Gustavo Petro said on ...