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...narrows his hard brown eyes when he mentions his quarry. "He's somewhere in Medellin, and very soon we'll get him." The chief of Colombia's secret police, or DAS, has been offering that prediction for nearly a year. But each time authorities announce that the capture of Pablo Escobar Gaviria is imminent, the overlord of the Medellin drug cartel slithers away. Just last week Escobar managed to elude the police once again after a massive drug raid in the northeastern part of the country. But 11 top advisers of his drug ring, including his brother-in-law, were...
...ALWAYS SAID, PABLO. Frank Galati, winner of two Tony Awards in June as adapter and director of The Grapes of Wrath, performed the same tasks for this dizzyingly beautiful blend of imagery from Picasso's paintings, and poetry and music from the Gertrude Stein-Virgil Thomson Four Saints in Three Acts. Originally staged for the Goodman troupe in Chicago, it plays through July 22 at Washington's Kennedy Center...
With Colombia's presidential elections scheduled for May 27, the drug cartels have set out on a wild assassination binge. The idea is to influence the outcome, and according to the secret police, the funding comes mainly from drug magnate Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Despite sweeping police operations, the terrorist toll from May 10 to May 17 alone was 503 people murdered and 18 kidnaped, bringing the year's total to more than 5,000 killings and 342 abductions...
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 To prevent his escape, Envigado's mayor has been replaced by an army colonel, and an extra 900 national police have been assigned to Medellin.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...