The Latest Breaking News from Pablo Escobar

First Thing: global markets gripped by Silicon Valley Bank collapse

Bank shares slide around world amid panic caused by SVB failure as its parent company and two top executives are sued by shareholders. Plus, what’s next for Escobar’s hippos?

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2023

Colombia floats new strategy for Escobar’s hippos: ship them abroad

Since the drug lord’s imported hippos escaped after his death in 1993, the government has repeatedly failed to tame the booming population

The Guardian - US · Mar 14, 2023

Colombia to relocate Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ because they won’t stop breeding

The hippos are descendants of four imported illegally by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s

Evening Standard · Mar 3, 2023

Downfall of 'Latvian Pablo Escobar' as 'Jimmy Line' drug ring smashed

Detectives have vowed a crackdown on drug dealers in Skelmersdale

Liverpool Echo · Jan 26, 2023

Inside life of Cocaine Godmother with lust for murder as true story hits our screens

Griselda Blanco, dubbed the Cocaine Godmother, was the queenpin among kingpins in the Colombian Medellin drug cartel of the 70s and 80s. She was a trailblazer for women entrepreneurs the world over

Daily Mirror · Jan 13, 2023

Brit who snorted coke off Pablo Escobar's grave jailed for drug trafficking

Steven Semmens was charged at Swansea Crown Court along with four other cocaine conspirators for their involvement in selling the Class A drug.

Daily Record · Dec 30, 2022

Brit who snorted cocaine off Pablo Escobar's grave jailed for 50 years for drug smuggling

Steven Semmens, whose 2018 graveyard stunt drew the ire of Colombian cartels, has been jailed along with four other defendants at Swansea Crown Court for cocaine dealing

Daily Mirror · Dec 30, 2022

Man who sniffed cocaine from Pablo Escobar's grave jailed as part of drug gang

The gang shipped large quantities of cocaine into south Wales

Wales Online · Dec 29, 2022

Transforming Colombia is a must for the travel bucket list

Once hailed as the most dangerous place in the most dangerous country in South America, the community has completely turned this reputation on its head and is now a vibrant, artistic and welcoming place for visitors and its residents

Irish Mirror · Dec 13, 2022

How Curtis 'Cocky' Warren tried to flood a sleepy island with £1m of drugs

Warren - once dubbed 'Britain's Pablo Escobar' - has been freed from jail after serving a 14 year sentence for the failed plot to smuggle 180kg of cannabis into Jersey

Manchester Evening News · Dec 4, 2022