Thirty years after his disappearance, Pablo Escobar continues to make him talk. Once is not custom, it is not about drugs but about a business of hippopotamuses. At the end of the 1980s, the cocaine baron had four of these animals illegally imported from Africa for his private zoo which he had built in his luxurious home at Hacienda Napoles.
After the death of the drug baron in 1993, the pachyderms were released into the wild by the authorities and then populated the region of Magdalena Medio, a hot savannah crisscrossed by rivers, marshes and swamps where food is abundant. But the little herd quickly took on another dimension, to the point of being a little too bulky. So much so that 70 of them will soon be transferred to sanctuaries in Mexico and India.