Colombian drug lord Escobar kept hippos on his ranch which went feral. Now some are being “rescued” and sent to El Chapo’s homeland.
, was captured in January after a fierce firefight that resulted in 29 dead and more than 30 injured.The Ostok Sanctuary is on the outskirts of Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa — long a stronghold of the Mexican drug cartel once run by— who is currently serving a life sentence for murder and drug trafficking at the federal supermax prison in Colorado after his conviction in Brooklyn.
The hippos’ move is a $500,000 operation that is being financed by Mexican conservationist Ernesto Zazueta,The hippos are a small fraction of the dozens in Antioquia, in northwestern Colombia, where Escobar maintained a zoo on his Hacienda Nápoles ranch, at the height of his power running the Medellin Cartel in the 1980s.
He also used the ranch as a meeting place for million dollar cocaine deals and parties with teenage girls.from the San Diego Zoo in the early 1980s and another two from fellow drug traffickers, the Ochoa brothers. Escobar kept exotic animals from around the world, including this kangaroo he posed with, emus, giraffes, and elephants. Following his death, all of his pets were either killed or removed — except for the hippos.Hippos breed freely in the absence of predators on the 7,000 acres Escobar held them on. They have now been declared an invasive menace by local authorities.
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