Ecuador's drug lords are building "narco-zoos" as status symbols.

The animals are paying the price.
OCTOBER 20, 2023 / 3:04 PM / CBS/AFP


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Ecuador's drug lords are building "narco-zoos" as status symbols. The animals are paying the price.
OCTOBER 20, 2023 / 3:04 PM / CBS/AFP

A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug lords. In the style of Colombian cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, they are erecting private, illegal zoos as a status symbol.

In May, police came upon the sorry sight of the two endangered felines perched on a log surrounded by iron bars.

They were held on a property owned by Wilder Sanchez Farfan — alias "Gato" (The Cat) — a suspected drug lord with ties to Mexico's Jalisco New Generation cartel and wanted in the United States.

Farfan was arrested in Colombia in February, and the U.S. Treasury Department called him "one of the most significant drug traffickers in the world."

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Ecuador's drug lords are building "narco-zoos" as status symbols. The animals are paying the price.
OCTOBER 20, 2023 / 3:04 PM / CBS/AFP

A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug lords. In the style of Colombian cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, they are erecting private, illegal zoos as a status symbol.

In May, police came upon the sorry sight of the two endangered felines perched on a log surrounded by iron bars.

They were held on a property owned by Wilder Sanchez Farfan — alias "Gato" (The Cat) — a suspected drug lord with ties to Mexico's Jalisco New Generation cartel and wanted in the United States.

Farfan was arrested in Colombia in February, and the U.S. Treasury Department called him "one of the most significant drug traffickers in the world."

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