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news Why scientists want to kill Pablo Escobar s hippos Pablo Escobar is a name Colombia has been trying to forget for the last 30 years. One of the most notorious criminals of all time, he was the founder of the infamous Medellín drugs cartel in the 1980s, responsible for kidnappings, bombings and indiscriminate assassinations. At one point he was thought to be one of the world s richest men. © Getty Images The hippos brought by Pablo Escobar to his private zoo have multiplied and invaded Colombia s waterways But the cocaine kingpin is also responsible for what scientists call an ecological time-bomb.

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