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<text id=93TT2360>
<title>
Feb. 01, 1993: Back to the Barricades
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
WORLD, Page 19
Back to the Barricades
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<body>
<p>Colombia's most wanted criminal ups the stakes in the bloody
drug war
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<p> What he wants, apparently, is respect. In hiding since last
July when he escaped from his comfy cell in a prison at Envigado,
Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar has been trying to negotiate a
conditional surrender. Colombian President Cesar Gaviria
Trujillo has said no, choosing instead, with the U.S., to place
more than $3 million in bounties on Escobar's head and stepping
up police pressure. Last week Escobar fired back, announcing
that he would set up a private army, the Antioquia Rebel
Movement, to counter the "barbaric methods" of special
antinarcotics police forces. The government dismissed the threat
as an attempt by Escobar to portray himself as a political--rather than a criminal--outlaw, another ploy to cut a deal.
The continued standoff is leading to a new wave of violence.
Late last week two car bombs exploded in Bogota, injuring about
20 people. Police are blaming Escobar and say it's a warning
that things will get worse.
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