Tag: Pablo Escobar

• Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 20:27 UTC

  US$600 million treasure discovered in Colombian farm

  

  A farmer in the Colombian region of Antioquía region of Colombia has unearthed an astonishing US$600 million in cash. The money was found buried in rusty metal drums while the rural worker, who remains anonymous for security reasons, was doing some digging to expand his crop area.

• Monday, June 9th 2025 - 10:35 UTC

  Colombian presidential hopeful shot during political rally

  

  Colombian Senator and 2026 presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was shot twice Saturday during a campaign rally in El Golfito Park, Bogota’s Fontibon district, at around 5 pm local time. Uribe, a member of the conservative Democratic Centre party, was stabilized at a local clinic before being airlifted to the Santa Fe Foundation hospital, where he underwent neurosurgical and vascular procedures. As of Sunday, he remained in stable but critical condition.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2023 - 09:27 UTC

  Pablo Escobar's house museum demolished after all

  

  Colombian authorities Monday demolished legendary drug lord Pablo Escobar's House-Museum in Medellín, in a move to bring the so-called “narcotours” to an end.

• Saturday, May 20th 2023 - 11:31 UTC

  Drug lord Pablo Escobar legacy to Colombia, the invasive ecosystem engineers, African hippos

  

  The legacy of Colombian drugs lord Pablo Escobar has not only been the ongoing gangs war and the overall violence in the country, but also consequences of some of his hobbies, for example growing exotic fauna, such as hippos.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Former Cali Cartel capo dies in US prison

  

  Wednesday's death at a US prison of former Cali Cartel capo Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, aka El Ajedrecista (The Chessman), who used to wage his own war against rival trafficker Pablo Escobar of the Medellín Cartel, has revived stories of the 1980s and 1990s which have been romanticized through the entertainment industry.

• Saturday, March 26th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Invasive hippos may become a plague in Colombia by 2030

  

  Brought into the country in the 1980s by former drug-trafficking capo Pablo Escobar, the 133 hippopotamuses already in Colombia might reach over 400 by the year 2030, and have thus been declared an invasive species Friday.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  Pablo Escobar's original four hippos in Colombia, could number 1,400 by 2034

  

  Hippopotamuses are increasing in Colombia despite being an alien species in South America. Their existence in the country began with the import of four individuals by drug lord Pablo Escobar. The four hippopotamuses later escaped into the wild.

• Friday, February 7th 2020 - 09:14 UTC

  “Repentant” Popeye, Colombian Escobar's most notorious hit man dies at age 57

  

  Pablo Escobar’s most notorious hit man, known by the nickname Popeye, died on Thursday at age 57 after a life of crime he celebrated on YouTube, Colombia’s prison authorities said.

• Friday, December 14th 2018 - 20:07 UTC

  Attack on Venezuelan opposition leader said to be slow-motion assassination

  

  Former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana said Wednesday's attack against Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was to poison her with a delayed-effect substance.

• Friday, May 16th 2014 - 06:30 UTC

  Former Escobar lover links Menem's son 1995 death with the drugs business

  

  Virginia Vallejo, former lover of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria, linked the death of ex president Carlos Menem’s son –Carlos Menem Jr.- with Escobar’s family money laundry in Argentina in the 90s.