As dusk settles on the Magdalena Valley, the jungly middle stretch of Colombia’s great river basin, the hippopotamuses bawl and snort. The indelicate groans of these multi-ton beasts border on comedic ...

Pablo Escobar welcomed a son and a daughter during his 17-year-long marriage to María Victoria Henao Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

“Pablo Escobar” and “White House” don’t seem like they belong in the same sentence. Yet there’s a surprising photo of the infamous drug kingpin posing in front of the White House with his son, looking ...

Pablo and Maria's story began in 1973 in Palmira, Colombia. Maria Victoria was just 12 years old from a conservative Catholic family when she first met Pablo. Pablo was 23, a charismatic rebel who was ...

Born December 1, 1949 in the city of Rionegro, Colombia. His father was a peasant farmer, his mother an elementary school teacher. Not exactly a life headstart. As a teenager Pablo Escobar stole ...