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THE WEEK, Page 19WORLDCross Fire
Colombia is caught in a squeeze between guerrillas and
traffickers
There is a limit to just how much violence even battle-
hardened Colombians can take. Since drug kingpin Pablo Escobar
escaped from his maximum-security prison in July, security forces
have rounded up or killed dozens of his cronies and relatives; in
retaliation, traffickers assassinated 29 police officers over
the past two weeks alone. Quite apart from the drug wars,
leftist rebels, who so far this year have killed more than 1,000
police, soldiers and civilians, set off a series of bomb
explosions and terrorist attacks that left 30 dead, then
murdered 26 police guards at a remote oil installation. The
public outcry that followed the rebel violence prompted
President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo to impose a 90-day national
state of emergency that grants him extraordinary powers to
pursue the troublemakers without first consulting Congress or
the courts. So far, however, the bloodshed continues. Last week
army troops killed at least 80 rebels in shoot-outs around the
country.