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Colombia Gives Chunk of Druglord Escobar's Ranch to Conflict Victims
The government allocated 120 hectares from Escobar's estate to women farmers as part of ongoing land reform to aid victims of Colombia's six-decade armed conflict.
- On Wednesday, President Gustavo Petro wrote on X that the government had given 120 hectares of Hacienda Napoles to local women farmers and said, `We have begun to recover the Napoles estate for the victims.`
- Earlier this year, Petro asked on May 23 that Escobar's estate be included in a land reform program, as land ownership has been a key driver of Colombia's conflict.
- The 4,000-hectare Hacienda Napoles includes a theme park and zoo, with hippos around 150 declared invasive and tourism companies protesting the government's breakup plan.
- The handover adds to Petro's record of land redistribution, having redistributed some 570,000 hectares to peasants, but land reform remains a sticking point and progress slow.
- Given the conflict's toll, land promises under the 2016 accord remain central as the Havana peace deal assures some three million hectares to peasant farmers and the wider conflict's victims total 220,000 dead and almost seven million displaced.
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Part of drug lord Pablo Escobar's ranch, famous for its "cocaine hippos," given to victims of Colombia's armed conflict
Pablo Escobar, once head of the powerful Medellin Cartel, was one of the richest men on the planet in the 1980s, with an estimated $25 billion fortune.
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Land in the Hacienda Nápoles, an illustration of the megalomania of the Colombian drug dealer who died in 1993, began to be transferred on Wednesday, 1 October, to women displaced by drug-related violence.
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Total News Sources41
Leaning Left9Leaning Right6Center7Last UpdatedBias Distribution41% Left
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41% Left
L 41%
C 32%
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