Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has sent 500 police officers onto the streets of Medellin in an attempt to stop the violence as drug gangs battle over territory, in what appears to be a “fight for control of an organization set up by Pablo Escobar of the Medellin cartel,” reports the BBC. Escobar died in 1993.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 9 April 2009.
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