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<text id=91TT1544>
<title>
July 15, 1991: World Notes:Colombia
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 45
World Notes
COLOMBIA
No Extradition, No Murder
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<p> The Medellin cartel has not yet renounced the drug trade, but
it does claim it is getting out of a subsidiary business: murder.
The narcotics ring announced last week that it was ending its
terrorist campaign, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of
judges, journalists, police officers and other government
officials during the past seven years. "We have decided to
dismantle our entire military organization," said the cartel.
</p>
<p> The syndicate's 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.
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</body></article>
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