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- <text id=89TT2702>
- <title>
- Oct. 16, 1989: World Notes:Colombia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 16, 1989 The Ivory Trail
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 47
- World Notes
- COLOMBIA
- Brave Stand By the Court
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In Colombia, where 157 judges were victims of drug-related
- murders between 1982 and 1988, it is a brave justice who stands
- up to the cartels. But last week, in a surprising move, the
- country's Supreme Court voted to uphold most of President
- Virgilio Barco Varga's emergency measures against narcotics
- traffickers. Most important, the court approved the President's
- power to extradite criminals to the U.S.
- </p>
- <p> Since Barco began his crusade against the coke barons eight
- weeks ago, one drug lieutenant has been extradited and the U.S.
- Justice Department has begun to pursue four others. "This is a
- great victory for the President and a tremendous blow to the
- narcos," declared National Police chief General Miguel Gomez
- Padilla.
- </p>
- <p> Gomez Padilla had another reason for optimism. He disclosed
- last week that more than 4,000 police officers had left or been
- dismissed from the 70,000-member force this year, many because
- of connections with drug traffickers.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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