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- <title>
- Dec. 24, 1990: World Notes:Colombia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- World Notes
- COLOMBIA
- Score One for The Narcos
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Nine months after its members laid down their guns and
- agreed to become a political party, the former guerrilla group
- M-19 scored a major victory at the polls last week as its
- leader, Antonio Navarro Wolf, finished first in the national
- election of delegates to the constitutional assembly. Navarro's
- party succeeded in capturing 19 of the assembly's 70 seats.
- </p>
- <p> The result was a stinging rebuke to the ruling Liberal Party
- of President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo and a signal that
- Colombians have grown weary of the government's war against the
- drug lords. Navarro, whose party will lead the effort to draft
- a new constitution by July 4, 1991, favors a ban on extradition
- of Colombians to foreign countries, considered to be the most
- effective weapon against the drug lords.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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