WORLD IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Assured Protection, Judges End Strike
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Colombian judges ended a 13-day strike after winning a government pledge of better protection in the war against drug barons. Judges who have received retaliatory death threats were promised 345 bullet-proof vests, 50 armored cars and two motorcycles, a judicial association official said. The government also pledged to move appeals court justices and penal judges to a more secure building in Bogota and increase police guards at courts in Bogota and in Medellin and Cali, two major cocaine-exporting cities.
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