World IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Minister Quits, Sees Drug War Weakness
From Times staff and Wire reports
Interior Minister Carlos Lemos Simmonds resigned after accusing the government of weakness toward the country’s feared cocaine traffickers. Lemos, considered Colombia’s toughest anti-drug minister, also cited the failure of President Virgilio Barco Vargas to defend him against accusations that he helped cause Thursday’s assassination of leftist presidential candidate Bernardo Jaramillo by linking Jaramillo to an outlawed Colombian guerrilla group.
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