From four to nearly 200, Colombia's "cocaine hippos" have been damaging the ecosystem of the Magdalena River for over four decades.
Poverty, manipulation, and lenient laws fuel a new generation of Colombian teen assassins for hire Decades after drug lord Pablo Escobar notoriously built a small army of child hitmen to murder police ...
The hippos, brought to Colombia by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, could have a serious negative impact on the local ...
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.