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...authorities has killed drug boss Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, forced the surrender of his fellow cocaine barons, the brothers Jorge, Juan David and Fabio Ochoa, destroyed dozens of labs and airstrips and scattered lesser capos abroad. In the most stunning blow yet to the cartel, Medellin chief Pablo Escobar Gaviria surrendered last week under a plea-bargaining program that promises he will not be extradited to stand trial...
President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo's advisers insist the Cali cartel will be given priority now that Escobar is jailed. Bonner argues that the new gangs will prove a more formidable threat to Colombia's security than the Medellin cartel "precisely because they make more discreet use of murder, bribery and intimidation." Says he: "The Cali organizations can be characterized as murderous thugs who are more politically astute in the way they carry out their business...
After almost a year on the run with a $400,000 bounty on his head and the largest police dragnet in Colombian history on his tail, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria surrendered quietly to authorities last week. After handing over his pistol to officials on the outskirts of Medellin, he was whisked by helicopter to a special prison in the Andean foothills. There, overlooking his boyhood hometown of Envigado, the man regarded as Colombia's No. 1 drug thug will serve time on as yet unannounced charges...
...chagrin of many, it was Escobar who arranged his own fate. For several weeks, he negotiated with the government through an intermediary to settle the fine points of his incarceration. He personally selected a jail that boasts virtually impregnable security. The facility has in recent weeks been encircled with an electrified 15-ft.-high chain link fence topped by barbed wire, and outfitted with four 30-ft. observation posts. All of this is not to keep Escobar in -- it is to keep his enemies out. That includes national and secret police, who will not be permitted to enter...
...drug king will also be able to attend to his creature comforts. The prison is large enough to accommodate 40, which is about how many of Escobar's confidants are expected to follow their monarch into entombment, like Qin- dynasty soldiers. Escobar's older brother Roberto was among the first to surrender late last week and join him in his as yet Spartan quarters. There is neither heating nor air conditioning, the four large dormitories are equipped with steel double-decker beds, and the recreation room is bare save for a television set. Escobar will undoubtedly use some...