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

The herd was declared an invasive species last year.

Fortune

Removing 70 of Pablo Escobar’s hippos to cost Colombia $3.5m

Animals to be sent overseas in effort to contain growing population that risks upsetting local ecosystem

The Guardian - AU

Colombia's top police chief says he uses exorcism and religious rituals to fight crime

General Henry Sanabria further claimed the infamous cocaine trafficker in Colombia, Pablo Escobar, was brought down through the use of spiritual rituals and exorcisms

Daily Mirror

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Giovanna Fletcher visits Whitley Bay haunt that's a celeb favourite between Theatre Royal shows

Giovanna Fletcher had a trip to the coast during a break in performances of Wish You Were Dead at Newcastle's Theatre Royal

Chronicle Live

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

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

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

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Who can house a hippo? Colombia hopes export part of Pablo Escobar's bloat

Dozens of the invasive behemoths, descended from 4 imported by the 1980s drug lord, are thriving in the region around his former ranch. Colombia wants to ship some of them to Mexico and India.

WEKU

Pablo Escobar's hippos to be removed from Colombia as they go out of control

The hippos, which are territorial and weigh up to three tonnes, have been declared a toxic invasive species because they have no natural predator in Colombia and pose a biodiversity risk because their faeces changes the composition of rivers

Daily Mirror

Colombia proposes shipping invasive hippos to India, Mexico

Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch _ descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population

The Independent UK

Suspected drug dealers arrested after grandad killed in arson attack

George Redmond was injured trying to escape his home after it was set alight in the early hours of the morning

Liverpool Echo

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

Detectives have vowed a crackdown on drug dealers in Skelmersdale

Liverpool Echo

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

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.

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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

Wales Online

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

Irish Mirror

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

Manchester Evening News

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

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Daily Record

'UK's Pablo Escobar' banned from entering Scotland after release from maximum security prison

Curtis Warren, who was once worth an estimated £300m, was released from Whitemoor maximum security prison in Cambridgeshire.

Daily Mirror

Drug lord Curtis Warren dubbed UK's Pablo Escobar 'out of jail and wants to see mum'

Curtis “Cocky” Warren has reportedly been released from Whitemoor maximum security prison in Cambridgeshire after spending most of the past 25 years behind bars and has tough restrictions

Daily Mirror

Colombia grapples with 'extreme barbaric violence' and cartel wars amid new dawn

President Gustavo Petro is pushing for "true and definitive peace" in the Andean country of Colombia, but some say its not possible to achieve in just four years given its brutal past

Daily Mirror

Inside Pablo Escobar's mansion where drug lord hid from police - now a HOTEL with grotto

Pablo Escobar's 'private location' mansion has now been transformed into a state-of-the-art hotel which you can stay in for a pretty penny, and includes an exclusive beach and adult-only grotto

ABC News

Colombia's new president was once part of a guerrilla group with a wild history. Now he promises social change

Colombia's new President, Gustavo Petro, was once a member of M-19 — a wild rebel group that stole the Sword of Simon Bolivar and is rumoured to have worked with and against Pablo Escobar.

Liverpool Echo

'British Pablo Escobar' hunted as Liverpool men arrested over cocaine haul

The men arrested in Greece are said to be at the top of a major international cartel

The Independent UK

Colombian drug lord known as ‘The Chess Player’ dies in US prison

Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela known for violent tactics and wide-ranging bribes

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