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...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 oil installation. The public outcry that followed the rebel violence prompted President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo to impose a 90-day national state of emergency that grants him extraordinary powers to pursue the troublemakers without first consulting Congress or the courts. So far, however, the bloodshed continues. Last week army troops killed at least 80 rebels in shoot- outs around the country...
...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...
...cease-fire pledge was prompted by a new constitution that went into effect last week prohibiting the extradition of suspects in drug crimes. It is hard to believe the narcotics lords will truly mend their ways. Yet in Colombia the truce brought a sense of relief, allowing President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo to lift a state of siege declared in 1984 after traffickers killed a government minister...
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...
...reporter who covers crime knows that when the flash-bang goes off at the front door, the SWAT team is storming the back door," says correspondent Elaine Shannon. And so, when Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the ferocious leader of the Medellin drug cartel, surrendered to authorities in Colombia last week, Shannon knew that the real story lay elsewhere. "Escobar is a terrific sound- and-light show," she says. "But people of such towering stupidity always flame out." In her eyes, the group to watch is the Cali cartel. And, as deftly laid out by her in one of this week...