Deporting Pablo Escobar's invasive "cocaine hippos" from Colombia carries a hefty price tag

Decades after Pablo Escobar brought hippos to Colombia, country now dealing with dozens of them Colombia said Wednesday it was making progress on the transfer of 70 hippos to overseas sanctuaries, but mitigating the havoc caused by this unusual legacy of deceased drug lord Pablo Escobar carries a hefty price tag: $3.5 million. The cocaine baron brought a small number of the African beasts to Colombia in the late 1980s. But after his death in 1993, the so-called "cocaine hippos" were left to roam freely in a hot, marshy area...