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- <title>
- Jan. 15, 1990: World Notes:Colombia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- COLOMBIA
- Drug Thugs' Revenge
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> In the brutal war between the government of President
- Virgilio Barco Vargas and the Medellin cocaine cartel, the drug
- lords have scored the latest hit. Last week the cartel's
- paramilitary group, the "Extraditables," claimed responsibility
- for the Dec. 20 abduction of investment broker Alvaro Diego
- Montoya, 36, the son of Barco's closest political adviser,
- general secretary of the presidency German Montoya.
- </p>
- <p> The Extraditables also said they had seized at least two
- dozen other prominent citizens. According to reports in two
- Bogota newspapers, the abductions were ordered by drug boss
- Pablo Escobar Gaviria, who is still on the run following a
- close escape from the law on Nov. 23.
- </p>
- <p> For four months the Barco government has waged a campaign
- to shut down drug operations. Last week the government raised
- the reward for information leading to Escobar's capture to more
- than $500,000. Police read the kidnapings as a warning to Barco
- to halt the expropriations of kingpins' property and the
- extraditions of drug lords to the U.S.--or pay the price.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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