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- <text id=91TT1544>
- <title>
- July 15, 1991: World Notes:Colombia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- World Notes
- COLOMBIA
- No Extradition, No Murder
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- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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