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At his extravagant estate in Puerto Triunfo, Escobar also built a private zoo filled with hippos, giraffes, elephants, and other animals. Hippos still roam the grounds today. 1)
Escobar sold stolen vehicles and tombstones to smugglers before becoming a drug lord. 2)
Escobar's outspoken sympathy for the underprivileged, as well as his desire to become Colombia's president, earned him the moniker “Robin Hood.” 3)
Escobar was earning up to $420 million per week as the ruling lord of the Medellin Cartel.4)
His narcotics trade thrived to the point that he was transporting roughly 15 tonnes of cocaine every day! 5)