Word: escobar
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Pizarro was the third presidential candidate assassinated in the past nine months. Colombian authorities say the wholesale slaughter of politicians is part of the desperate strategy of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the Medellin drug cartel chieftain who is wanted in the U.S. Army and police officials believe they have Escobar trapped in Envigado, a satellite of Medellin. To prevent his escape, Envigado's mayor has been replaced by an army colonel, and an extra 900 national police have been assigned to Medellin. A person authorized to speak for the cartel told TIME that Escobar has assigned his top hit men specific...
...Extraditables also said they had seized at least two dozen other prominent citizens. According to reports in two Bogota newspapers, the abductions were ordered by drug boss Pablo Escobar Gaviria, who is still on the run following a close escape from...
...four months the Barco government has waged a campaign to shut down drug operations. Last week the government raised the reward for information leading to Escobar's capture to more than $500,000. Police read the kidnapings as a warning to Barco to halt the expropriations of kingpins' property and the extraditions of drug lords to the U.S. -- or pay the price...
...indictment against Noriega names 15 otherpeople, including the reputed head of the Medellincocaine cartel, Pablo Escobar Gaviria, who isbeing hunted by Colombian authorities...