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- WORLD, Page 45World NotesCOLOMBIANo Extradition, No Murder
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- The Medellin cartel has not yet renounced the drug trade, but
- it does claim it is getting out of a subsidiary business: murder.
- The narcotics ring announced last week that it was ending its
- terrorist campaign, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of
- judges, journalists, police officers and other government
- officials during the past seven years. "We have decided to
- dismantle our entire military organization," said the cartel.
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- The syndicate's cease-fire pledge was prompted by a new
- constitution that went into effect last week prohibiting the
- extradition of suspects in drug crimes. It is hard to believe
- the narcotics lords will truly mend their ways. Yet in Colombia
- the truce brought a sense of relief, allowing President Cesar
- Gaviria Trujillo to lift a state of siege declared in 1984 after
- traffickers killed a government minister.
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