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Drug Travel: Welcome to Escobarland!

June 4, 2008 at 5:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

Before he was gunned down by Colombian troops working with the US government, the infamous cocaine baron Pablo Escobar built Hacienda Napoles, a headquarters near his hometown of Medellin.

According to the BBC, Escobar's massive estate was

A fantasy land with concrete dinosaurs, a bullfighting ring and a private zoo that would have made Michael Jackson jealous, with giraffes, elephants, kangaroos and hippopotamuses.

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