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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
James C. Reynolds

Victims of Colombian conflict given land from Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ ranch

Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’.

President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday that part of the sprawling 4,000-hectare (10,000-acre) Hacienda Napoles estate in northwest Antioquia department had been “recovered” for “the victims”.

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