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- <title>
- June 11, 1990: World Notes:Colombia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 11, 1990 Scott Turow:Making Crime Pay
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 37
- World Notes
- COLOMBIA
- President of Last Resort
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> After a violent election campaign left three presidential
- candidates dead, Colombians gingerly went to the polls last
- week in the lowest turnout ever. As expected, they elected
- Cesar Gaviria Trujillo of the ruling Liberal Party as their new
- leader, with a surprisingly large 47% of the vote.
- </p>
- <p> Gaviria, 43, owes his victory in part to his willingness to
- pick up the mantle of antidrug crusaders after his party's
- leading candidate, Luis Carlos Galan, was gunned down last
- August by drug-cartel assassins. Thrust unexpectedly into the
- limelight at the urging of Galan's family, Gaviria emerged as
- the most vocal of the candidates against the narcotraficantes.
- </p>
- <p>to use it only as a "last resort."
- </p>
- <p> An economist by training, the President-elect, who will take
- office on Aug. 7, also insists that the U.S. do more to help
- win the drug war. He complains that unfair tariffs on
- legitimate exports like coffee and flowers hinder efforts to
- squelch the drug trade. "The U.S. has to understand we don't
- want their troops," he says. "We want to be treated fairly as
- a trading partner."
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- </body>
- </article>
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