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Pepe the Hippo From 1981

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Recent story emerged of a dead hippo named Pepe telling and sharing sum "life" story.

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Pepe was one of three hippos brought to Columbia in 1981 by Pabloe Escobar. His estate had a to fleed and of all the wild animals was the Hippos that adapted to the South American rivers. Pepe was the first male to leave the first wild herd outside of Africa.

To some Pepe was Pablo Escobar. A seeming monster that remained out of place that came out of the drug trade in the country.

"My story could only be told when it became their story.", Pepe

Sum 'nother Pepe finding way in an expressive afterlife experience through three languages as a wild animal expressed by sum human mind.

Pepe the philosophizing hippo might sound odd, but what he says is deeply political, stresses De Los Santos Arias.

An example of historical migration.

"They" and "Others" ... There is no "us".

Pepe became a local legend long before Pepe the frog.

"What did I do to be dead?" Pepe wonders...

Sources: ‘Pepe’ Review: An Opaque, Experimental Odyssey Through the Afterlife Consciousness of a ‘Cocaine Hippo’ & Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias Creates Post-Colonial Fable ‘Pepe,’ Taking on Pablo Escobar’s Infamous Zoo: ‘Imagination Isn’t Owned by Disney’

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