The billionaire leader of the Medellín Cartel, Pablo Escobar had a long and bloody reign as a drug kingpin — but it wouldn't ...

Colombian hard-right president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella on Friday named a former lawmaker whose father was killed by infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar as his future interior minister. De la ...

The incoming minister's father, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was serving as justice minister in 1984 when he was gunned down in Bogota on Pablo Escobar's orders.

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...