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...laboratories have been torched, one top drug baron has been killed, hundreds of suspects have been arrested, and more than a dozen extradited to the U.S. In response, Escobar has unleashed a campaign of terror that has claimed some 300 civilian lives. After two successive weekends of violence in Medellin took more than 40 lives, the government two weeks ago extradited two more suspected cartel money launderers to the U.S., reaffirming Colombia's will...
...hasn't Escobar been found and captured? Nearly 2,000 national police have been assigned full time to the manhunt, and Escobar is almost certainly hiding in Envigado, a suburb of Medellin. But knowing his whereabouts and bringing him to justice are two different matters. Escobar is well protected in Envigado, which he once represented in congress. Even on the run, he is hard to find in a mainly rural country nearly as large as France, Spain and Portugal combined...
When the government put a $400,000 bounty on his head, Escobar countered by offering $500 to $2,000 for each policeman killed in Medellin; so far this year, 140 lawmen in the city have died. Those who dare cross him also pay dearly: the bodies of several subordinates suspected of betrayal have turned up in recent months...
...Enemy No. 1, but he is not the only drug boss. A ring in Cali, thought to control the flow of cocaine to New York City, functions with almost no police hindrance because the group has refrained from using terrorist tactics. It also provides police with information about its Medellin rivals...
...Bogota. As long as cocaine trafficking is so profitable, someone is willing to kill, or die, for it. Says a U.S. narcotics expert: "Colombia is winning the war, but I wonder whether its economic and political structure can withstand the long-term commitment." The signs are discouraging. In Medellin a small boy kicking a ball around a field built by Escobar called him a hero: "To me he's more important than God." The crop of tomorrow's would-be drug lords is as abundant as the marketplace of users who make such profane comparisons possible...