{"id":32218,"date":"2021-10-26T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=32218"},"modified":"2021-10-26T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:12:31","slug":"pablo-escobars-cocaine-hippos-legally-people-u-s-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/pablo-escobars-cocaine-hippos-legally-people-u-s-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo Escobar\u2019s \u2018cocaine hippos\u2019 are legally people, U.S. court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAPENeT.img?h=768&amp;w=1366&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f\" alt=\"Hippos are seen at a care center in Doradal, Antioquia Department, northeast of Bogot\u00e1, on Oct. 15. Twenty-four out of 80 hippos that roamed the former ranch of late drug lord Pablo Escobar in northwestern Colombia were sterilized due to \u201cuncontrolled\u201d growth of this \u201cinvasive\u201d species, authorities reported. (Photo by CORNARE\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"702\" height=\"463\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some 100 hippos descending from a herd smuggled into Colombia by the notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar are now recognized as \u201cinterested persons\u201d following a federal-court decision this month that is believed to be the first such ruling of its kind in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Animal Legal Defense Fund, which sought the interested persons designation for the \u201ccocaine hippos,\u201d\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/aldf.org\/article\/animals-recognized-as-legal-persons-for-the-first-time-in-u-s-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"61\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:61,&quot;p&quot;:58,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:3}\">called<\/a>\u00a0the ruling by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio a \u201ccritical milestone\u201d in its larger effort to have the American legal system recognize \u201cenforceable rights\u201d to which animals are entitled.<\/p>\n<p>Escobar smuggled several hippos onto his estate in the 1980s, but their wild spawn now roam the wetlands north of Bogot\u00e1, the\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2021\/01\/11\/invasive-hippos-escobar-colombia-castrate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"62\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:62,&quot;p&quot;:58,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:4}\">largest invasive species<\/a>\u00a0on the planet. Colombia had considered culling them, but Luis Domingo G\u00f3mez Maldonado, an animal rights lawyer, filed a lawsuit in that country in July 2020 seeking to prevent their killings.<\/p>\n<p>Colombian authorities have since said they will instead sterilize the herd with a chemical contraceptive called GonaCon that was developed by the U.S. Agriculture Department. The United States has donated dozens of doses of the chemical, currently used to sterilize animals such as horses and deer, to Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Now, G\u00f3mez\u2019s Colombia lawsuit is seeking to instead have the \u201ccocaine hippos\u201d treated with another contraceptive that has been used on their species. GonaCon has not previously been tested for hippo sterilization.<\/p>\n<p>ALDF staff attorney Ariel Flint said that the federal court\u2019s order is \u201cnarrow,\u201d in that its purpose is to allow two U.S. wildlife experts to be deposed in support of the legal proceedings in Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>But their testimony is \u201ccritical in ensuring that the hippos are sterilized in a humane way, and in proving that sterilization is an effective option for any hippos that may yet be euthanized,\u201d he wrote in an email to The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, Escobar brought four hippos to his Colombia estate, Hacienda N\u00e1poles, to add to his private collection of exotic animals, which also included ostriches, giraffes and elephants. After his death in 1993, the hippos were left to their devices, living along the Magdalena River and ballooning to the current population of as many as 120.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest community of hippos outside their native Africa, these semiaquatic mammals prospered in the absence of natural predators in South America. Favorable weather in the region may have induced them to reproduce at a younger age, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p><a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/10\/18\/pablo-escobar-colombian-hippos-sterilization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"63\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:63,&quot;p&quot;:58,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:5}\">Drug lord Pablo Escobar smuggled hippos into Colombia. Officials are now sterilizing the invasive species.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Legal experts note that the U.S. court order has no direct impact in Colombia, and it remains to be seen what influence the ruling might have.<\/p>\n<p>G\u00f3mez, the Colombian lawyer, has praised his country\u2019s jurisprudential attitude toward nonhuman animals. Colombian courts characterize them as \u201csentient beings\u201d entitled to some rights, legal academic Macarena Montes Franceschini wrote in the\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5406\/janimalethics.11.1.0036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"64\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:64,&quot;p&quot;:58,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:6}\">Journal of Animal Ethics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, a Colombia court also granted legal personhood status to part of the Amazon rainforest in a landmark decision that urged the government to put an end to the region\u2019s deforestation crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Get Vaccinated and stay safe!!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wpcf7 no-js\" id=\"wpcf7-f16536-o1\" lang=\"\" dir=\"ltr\" data-wpcf7-id=\"16536\">\n<div class=\"screen-reader-response\"><p role=\"status\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\"><\/p> <ul><\/ul><\/div>\n<form 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