Pablo Escobar, often dubbed the 'King of Cocaine' actually tried to buy off Colombia’s national debt in order to evade US ...

In the 1980s, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar built himself a zoo, because even brutal gang leaders love fuzzy animals. Escobar smuggled exotic animals into his personal zoo, including one male and ...

In Colombia’s enormous Magdalena River basin, an ecological anomaly has triggered an extraordinary debate among ecologists.

Wild hippos descended from Pablo Escobar's illegal collection are breeding out of control. Four escaped his private zoo after the drug lord died in a shootout in 1993. Now Colombia plans to sterilize, ...

The Colombian government is poised to spend $3.5 million to transfer about half of Pablo Escobar’s invasive “cocaine hippos” out of their country. Colombian officials said they are dealing with about ...

A hippo descended from the private menagerie of druglord Pablo Escobar has died in Colombia after being hit by a car, according to a statement from Colombian officials. The video featured is from a ...

FILE - Tourists buy souvenirs of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, featured as a statue with a sign that says one will be charged for taking photos inside a store in Doradal, Colombia, Feb. 5, 2021.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian photographer Édgar Jiménez walks around a room exhibiting “Adam and Eve,” his portrait of two of the first hippopotamuses that were brought to Colombia by late drug ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A man who confessed to hundreds of murders as head of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s army of assassins has been freed from a maximum security prison under heavy police guard. John ...

A hippopotamus descended from animals illegally brought to Colombia by the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar has died in a collision with an SUV on a highway near Escobar’s hacienda, environmental ...

BOGOTA, Colombia – Police have shut down a small museum in Medellin that showcased the life and times of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar because its managers do not have a tourism license, ...

One of Pablo Escobar’s invasive “cocaine hippos” was struck and killed by a car in the middle of a Colombian highway. Officials in Puerto Triunfo said the semiaquatic mammal was hit Tuesday night ...