BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia destroyed an infamous apartment building which was once home to drug trafficker Pablo Escobar in a controlled implosion on Friday, after the site became a tourist ...

Edgar Jimenez, known as "El Chino," gives an interview next to his photo of hippos "Adan y Eva," the first two hippos he photographed when they were brought to Colombia in the 1980s by drug lord Pablo ...

John Jairo Velasquez (right), who boasted of killing more than 300 people for drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (left), was released from jail on Tuesday after spending 22 years behind bars. ZUMA Press, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former hit man for late drug lord Pablo Escobar who confessed to killing hundreds of people during one of Colombia’s most violent periods died Thursday from cancer, prison ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A man who confessed to hundreds of murders as head of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s army of assassins has been freed from a maximum security prison under heavy police guard. John ...

One of Pablo Escobar’s invasive “cocaine hippos” was struck and killed by a car in the middle of a Colombian highway. Officials in Puerto Triunfo said the semiaquatic mammal was hit Tuesday night ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - When it comes to drug lords, there’s no matching Pablo Escobar. More than two decades after he was gunned down, his vast wealth, megalomania and ruthless violence still ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A hippopotamus descended from animals illegally brought to Colombia by the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar has died in a collision with an SUV on a highway near Escobar’s hacienda, ...

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar may have died in 1993, but he's left behind an unusual legacy: a herd of hippos. Escobar bought four of the exotic creatures from a California zoo in the 1980s after ...

BOGOTA – Colombian photographer Édgar Jiménez walks around a room exhibiting “Adam and Eve,” his portrait of two of the first hippopotamuses that were brought to Colombia by late drug kingpin Pablo ...