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Hippos – descendants from a small herd introduced by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar – are seen in the wild in a lake near the Hacienda Napoles theme park, once the private zoo of Escobar, in Doradal, Antioquia Department, Colombia, on April 19, 2023. Colombia is making progress on the transfer of 70 hippos to overseas sanctuaries in Mexico and India, but mitigating the havoc caused by this unusual legacy of deceased drug lord Pablo Escobar carries a hefty price tag: $3.5 million. The cocaine baron brought a small number of the African beasts to Colombia in the late 1980s, but after his death in 1993 the animals were left to roam freely in a hot, marshy area of Antioquia department. (Photo by Raúl Arboleda/AFP Photo)
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