Sunday 2 September 2012

Homes that were fit for a kingpin: The eerie abandoned island mansions of Colombia's once-powerful drug lords

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Dotted around the waters of Islas Del Rosario, the islands were once the weekend escapes for the bosses of the infamous Medellin and Cali cartels where they brushed shoulders with each in their 1980s heydays of political power and international money laundering. Now the swimming pools and mansions and gardens have been left to nature and are part of the booming 'Pablo Escobar tour' industry which has sprung up in Colombia in the years following the shrinking of the deadly cartels..

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