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The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos? – podcast

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A hippo at Hacienda Nápoles park in Colombia, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Photograph: Fernando Vergara/AP
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