Hacienda Nápoles

Pablo Escobar may be long gone, but his hippos are still a big problem for Colombia

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Pablo Escobar was many things, a Colombian drug lord, a politician and, more surprisingly, a zoo keeper. Most of his menagerie has been “rehomed” — but the hippos remain. And that’s a problem.Pablo Escobar was many things, a Colombian drug lord, a politician and, more surprisingly, a zoo keeper. Most of his menagerie has been “rehomed” — but the hippos remain. And that’s a problem.

Colombian newspapers and magazines from December 1993 on the death of druglord Pablo Escobar. Yolanda Perdomo saved them from that time.

In the land of Capone, Colombian immigrants struggle to imagine kingpin Pablo Escobar as a tourist draw