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- <text id=93TT1188>
- <title>
- Mar. 15, 1993: Petrified Pablo
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- WORLD
- Petrified Pablo
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A desperate Escobar tries to cut a deal for himself and his
- family
- </p>
- <p> It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. That, in effect, was the
- response by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to growing
- signs that Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria, a fugitive
- since July, is living in terror and squirming for a deal.
- Escobar's nemesis is a mysterious paramilitary group called
- Pepes, which may be a faction of the Medellin cartel that has
- turned on its longtime boss. Recently Pepes has launched a
- Mafia-style vendetta, even bombing the home of Escobar's
- mother. Said a DEA official: "He's facing his own medicine."
- </p>
- <p> Escobar reportedly has agreed to turn himself in to
- Colombian authorities in return for the safe passage of his
- wife and two children to the U.S. DEA officials deny that the
- U.S. has agreed to such a deal. But any accord that is
- eventually cut with the Colombian government, they warn, could
- well portend a new narco era dominated by--who else?--Pepes.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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