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<text id=93TT1188>
<title>
Mar. 15, 1993: Petrified Pablo
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 19
WORLD
Petrified Pablo
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<p>A desperate Escobar tries to cut a deal for himself and his
family
</p>
<p> It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. That, in effect, was the
response by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to growing
signs that Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria, a fugitive
since July, is living in terror and squirming for a deal.
Escobar's nemesis is a mysterious paramilitary group called
Pepes, which may be a faction of the Medellin cartel that has
turned on its longtime boss. Recently Pepes has launched a
Mafia-style vendetta, even bombing the home of Escobar's
mother. Said a DEA official: "He's facing his own medicine."
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<p> Escobar reportedly has agreed to turn himself in to
Colombian authorities in return for the safe passage of his
wife and two children to the U.S. DEA officials deny that the
U.S. has agreed to such a deal. But any accord that is
eventually cut with the Colombian government, they warn, could
well portend a new narco era dominated by--who else?--Pepes.
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