The fortress was specially constructed on a foggy mountainside to keep Escobar's enemies out — and not the cocaine kingpin in ...

Officials in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, said one of Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" was struck and killed by a car Tuesday night just a few miles away from the infamous drug lord's estate.

Decades after Pablo Escobar brought hippos to Colombia, country now dealing with dozens of them 04:43. Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals ...

Pablo Escobar’s hippos escaped in the 1990s – since then, they have become a problem. ... But hippos are aggressive and very large, so they are difficult to capture and transport.