Part of Pablo Escobar’s ranch to be given to female victims of Colombia conflict

<p>Estate was abandoned after Escobar’s 1993 killing and later became a theme park, and now government says given female farmers will get land</p><p>A slice of Pablo Escobar’s once-lavish ranch – a symbol of the drug lord’s enormous wealth and home to his infamous “cocaine hippos” – is being given to women who suffered in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/colombia">Colombia’s</a> armed conflict, announced Gustavo Petro, the president.</p><p>Escobar, Colombia’s most notorious narco-trafficker and former head of the powerful Medellín cartel, became one of the richest men in the world in the late 1980s, with Forbes magazine estimating his fortune at <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2012/06/22/are-drug-dealers-entrepreneurs/">$25bn</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/colombia-pablo-escobar-ranch">Continue reading...</a>