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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
- </history>
- <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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- </body>
- </article>
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