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Article: Colombian Court Upholds Extradition of Drug Lords
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 4, 1989
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The Supreme Court bolstered President Virgilio Barco's war
against drug lords today by upholding the legality of his decree
allowing extradition to the United States, the threat the traffickers
fear most.
However, the court ruled against a decree under which security
forces have been confiscating the property of accused cocaine
kingpins.
The decision, announced in a communique, means that confiscation
probably will have to be approved by the courts on a case-by-case
basis and that the huge amount of property already seized may have to
be returned to the owners.
The 24-judge court met today to rule on constitutional aspects of
decrees Barco issued as part of an unprecedented crackdown on ...