The World - News from Aug. 2, 1989
About 18,000 of Colombia’s 21,000 judges and judicial officials staged a one-day strike to press for more government protection after the gangland-style murder of a colleague. More than 50 judges have been killed in the last decade in Colombia, hub of much of the world’s cocaine trade. The most vulnerable are the estimated 1,300 judges involved in narcotics cases, all of whom have received death threats. In the most recent assassination, Judge Maria Elena Diaz Perez, 38, was killed when gunmen fired 200 bullets into her car.
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