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...Secret Service imported a two-inch-thick, 75-foot-long sheet of bulletproof glass to place in front of the National Museum for today's inauguration of Democracy Plaza in order to protect Bush, Colombian President Virgilio Barco and the others. Barco's life has been threatened by drug barons in his country...
...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...
...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...
President Alan Garcia of Peru met Presidents Virgilio Barco of Colombia and Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia at an air force base near Pisco, 45 miles northwest of Ica. They flew by helicopter to the Las Dunas hotel outside this city of 350,000 in the coastal desert 185 miles southeast of Lima...
...Barco began a crackdown on Colombian cocaine barons Aug. 19 and has received $65 million worth of U.S. military aid to help in the effort...