Pablo Escobar and the bizarre “inheritance” he left for the government of Colombia
The country will have to spend millions of dollars from the public coffers to deal with the bizarre legacy left by the trafficker.
Pablo Escobar, left a certain “legacy” to the Colombian government. Now, the country will have to spend about US$3.5 million from the public coffers, to transfer the 70 hippopotamuses that belonged to the Colombian drug lord to a sanctuary.
For his private zoo , in the late 1980s, one of the world's most famous drug dealers bought some animals from Africa, but after his death in 1993, they were let free and bred.
According to The Guardian newspaper, the animals have occupied an area in the Antioquia region and the environmental authorities are no longer able to contain their population and therefore it will be necessary to spend millions of dollars to remove the hippos from the area.
