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WHAT HE WANTS, APPARENTLY, IS RESPECT. IN HIDing since last July when he escaped from his comfy cell in a prison at Envigado, Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar has been trying to negotiate a conditional surrender. Colombian President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo has said no, choosing instead, with the U.S., to place more than $3 million in bounties on Escobar's head and stepping up police pressure. Last week Escobar fired back, announcing that he would set up a private army, the Antioquia Rebel Movement, to counter the "barbaric methods" of special antinarcotics police forces. The government dismissed the threat...
THERE IS A LIMIT TO JUST HOW MUCH VIOLENCE even battle-hardened Colombians can take. Since drug kingpin Pablo Escobar escaped from his maximum-security prison in July, security forces have rounded up or killed dozens of his cronies and relatives; in retaliation, traffickers assassinated 29 police officers over the past two weeks alone. Quite apart from the drug wars, leftist rebels, who so far this year have killed more than 1,000 police, soldiers and civilians, set off a series of bomb explosions and terrorist attacks that left 30 dead, then murdered 26 police guards at a remote...
Colombians are still arguing about which is more outrageous: drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's escape three weeks ago during an attempt by the military to regain control of his so-called prison, or the prison itself. Among the generous amenities: a water bed, videocassette player, 60-inch television set, stereo, fireplace, personal gymnasium and frequent visits from family and friends -- and even perhaps a few prostitutes...
Without doubt, he was the most pampered prisoner in all Colombia. Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin cocaine cartel who surrendered 13 months ago in exchange for a promise of no extradition to the U.S., was locked up in a suite in a luxurious prison of his own design in his hometown of Envigado. By most accounts, Escobar continued to run his billion-dollar business from behind the walls. So when Colombia's director of prisons and a deputy minister of justice entered the jail last week to tell Escobar he was being transferred to a harsher...
After a night of inconclusive negotiations, 400 army commandos stormed the jail at dawn and freed the hostages unharmed, but Escobar was gone. He and his brother Roberto and nine of their henchmen were nowhere to be found. They had somehow absconded, apparently with help from prison guards and military officers whom they had paid off. As troops combed the surrounding mountains, an embarrassed President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, who has come under criticism for dealing leniently with drug traffickers, could only remark, lamely, "I wish I had an explanation for everything that has happened...