A rare public good left by Pablo Escobar is the Hacienda Nápoles park. In the 1980s, it had been the all-powerful drug kingpin’s private zoo, which he’d filled with valuable wildlife from around the world, including no fewer than 80 hippopotami.
But even this family-friendly piece of the Escobar legacy has an ugly side, as Colombia’s Environment Ministry reports a rash of potentially dangerous hippos have escaped the premises in southern Colombia.
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