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<text id=90TT0102>
<title>
Jan. 15, 1990: World Notes:Colombia
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 43
World Notes
COLOMBIA
Drug Thugs' Revenge
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<p> In the brutal war between the government of President
Virgilio Barco Vargas and the Medellin cocaine cartel, the drug
lords have scored the latest hit. Last week the cartel's
paramilitary group, the "Extraditables," claimed responsibility
for the Dec. 20 abduction of investment broker Alvaro Diego
Montoya, 36, the son of Barco's closest political adviser,
general secretary of the presidency German Montoya.
</p>
<p> The 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 the law on Nov. 23.
</p>
<p> For four months the Barco government has waged a campaign
to shut down drug operations. Last week the government raised
the reward for information leading to Escobar's capture to more
than $500,000. Police read the kidnapings as a warning to Barco
to halt the expropriations of kingpins' property and the
extraditions of drug lords to the U.S.--or pay the price.
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