PABLO ESCOBAR

In the 1980's, the Colombian drug kingpin imported just four hippos from Africa — and now there are nearly 150 of them.

Sanabria claimed criminals used witchcraft, and said in one operation a police officer had been able to kill one of them by "praying while shooting."

Dozens of the invasive behemoths, descended from 4 imported by the 1980s drug lord, are thriving in the region around his former ranch. Colombia wants to ship some of them to Mexico and India.

Pablo Escobar imported four hippos to his ranch in the 1980s. Colombia has proposed transferring at least 70 hippos that live near Escobar's ranch to India and Mexico.

Escobar's Hacienda Napoles — and the hippos — have become a sort of local tourist attraction in the years since the kingpin was killed by police in 1993.

Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch _ descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population

Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population.

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It’s one of the United States’ few enduring alliances in an often-turbulent Latin America, one built around a decades-long partnership combating the nation’s drug cartels.

Italian agents have confiscated 4.3 tons of cocaine with a street value of nearly a quarter-billion euros (dollars) in the northeastern port city of Trieste, dealing a blow to Colombia’s feared Gulf Clan in one of the largest drug busts ever in Europe

Italian agents have confiscated 4.3 tons of cocaine with a street value of nearly a quarter-billion euros (dollars) in the northeastern port city of Trieste, dealing a blow to Colombia's feared Gulf Clan in one of the largest drug busts ever in Europe.

An elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s has died in a U.S. prison.

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The Gulf Clan drug cartel in Colombia has shut down dozens of towns for four days in reaction its leader's extradition to the U.S. for trial.

Colombia has extradited the alleged head of the feared Gulf Clan, to the United States where he faces indictments in three federal courts.

Fresh from the special unveiling of his Madame Tussauds wax figure in Medellín, Colombia, Maluma is ready to give the largest concert ever held at the Atanasio Girardot Soccer Stadium in his hometown.

Escobar's hippos have become a sort of local tourist attraction in the years since the kingpin was killed by police in 1993.

People around the Colombian town of Puerto Triunfo have grown accustomed to living near the herd of hippopotamuses descended from a few that were imported illegally from Africa in the 1980s by flamboyant drug lord Pablo Escobar

Álvaro Molina has had his run-ins with the burly bunch of neighbors with disreputable contacts who showed up about a decade ago along the river in front of his house in Colombia's Antioquia province. People around Puerto Triunfo have grown accustomed to the herd of hippopotamuses descended from a few that were imported illegally from Africa in the 1980s by flamboyant drug lord Pablo Escobar, whose former ranch is nearby. Molina, 57, says he supports the hippos even though he is one of the few Colombians to have been attacked by one.

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The case involves a lawsuit over whether to kill or sterilize the hippos whose numbers are growing at a fast pace and pose a threat to biodiversity.

A U.S. court order says the offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized as people with legal rights in the U.S. The case involves a lawsuit against the Colombian government over whether to kill or sterilize the hippos whose numbers are growing at a fast pace.

The offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized as people or “interested persons” with legal rights in the U.S. following a federal court order. The case involves a lawsuit against the Colombian government over whether to kill or sterilize the hippos whose numbers are growing at a fast pace and pose a threat to biodiversity. An animal rights groups is hailing the order as a milestone victory in the long sought efforts to sway the U.S. justice system to grant animals personhood status.

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Cops have arrested a drug lord at his Costa del Sol mansion, where they found a huge painting of him seated next to Pablo Escobar, Al “Scarface” Capone and other big-time criminals. Footage shows how a large team of armed officers entering the suspected drug lord’s mansion at night. Meanwhile, the police officers spotted a huge framed painting hanging on a wall, depicting the suspect seated at a table with a variety of real and fictional mobsters. Cops also seized a dozen vehicles along with weapons, money and drugs. Hall and Fern Siegel)The post VIDEO: What A Mug Shot: Drug King Seized With Painting Showing Him With Escobar And Capone appeared first on Zenger News.

This one comes with poop that environmentalists say is threatening to collectively suffocate fish in Colombia’s most important river. During the 1980s, the cocaine trafficker illegally imported four hippos, a male and three females, native to sub-Saharan Africa for his personal exotic zoo. AdDozens of wild hippos found their way to the nearby Magdalena River, which flows northward through the country and to the Caribbean Sea. Environmentalists say the hippos have displaced the vulnerable West Indian Manatees, or sea cows. She said she is not afraid of the wild hippos.

A hippo warning stands on the shore of a lagoon near Doral, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The humans in this rural area have embraced the hippos as their own, in part because of the tourist dollars they bring in. The scientists began working on the hippo population forecast last year after one of the animals chased and severely injured a poor farmer. “They love them.”Serna said each procedure can cost around $8,500 — a steep price for the regional environmental agency that oversees the animals. Echeverri said the agency has conducted 10 sterilizations and relocated four juvenile hippos to Colombian zoos.

At dusk, the street lights flicker on around a city park, located not far from the Magdalena River in Colombia. More hippos could mean more problems, especially for the Magdalena River Colombias largest and most important river system. Abandoned, they spread along the Magdalena River and multiplied. To understand the impact the hippos could have in Colombia, the researchers looked at how they interact and shape the environment in Africa. After it was reported several hippos were damaging crops and scaring fisherman and cattle owners, the Colombian government brought in specialists to hunt the hippos.

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A second safe found on the property of notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was discovered during demolition of the property in Miami Beach. CBSN's Vladimir Duthiers reports.