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Chloe Taylor

Colombian government to spend $3.5 million moving Pablo Escobar’s hippos

Hippos are seen swimming close to the Magdalena River in Doradal, Colombia on March 29, 2022. (Credit: Juancho Torres—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

The Colombian government is preparing to spend millions of dollars removing a herd of hippos brought into the country by notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

The late cocaine baron illegally imported four hippopotamuses from Africa to Colombia in the 1980s.

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