Sean Thomas Sean Thomas

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Photo-illustration: Lukas Degutis (iStock) 
issue 16 March 2024

Antioquia, Colombia

If you’ve ever wondered what happened to drug lord Pablo Escobar’s enormous cocaine and occasional execution palace, as featured in the Netflix series Narcos, I can tell you. These days – following the violent death of Escobar in 1993 and the consequent escape of his pet hippos from his private zoo – the estate is now a garish, plasticky, hippo-themed children’s waterpark called Hacienda Nápoles.

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