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Article: COLOMBIAN DRUG LORDS VOW TO KEEP KILLING.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 20, 1989
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Byline: Javier Baena Associated Press
Drug lords declared they would keep killing government officials after the assassination of leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan. Tens of thousands of mourners on Saturday flocked to Galan's coffin.
"Now the fight is with blood," said the Medellin Cartel in a brief communique broadcast by the RCN radio network and printed by the Bogota daily La Prensa.
The cartel, the world's largest cocaine ring, is believed to be responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States.
"We do want peace. We have screamed for it, but we will not beg for it," the statement said. It was ...