World IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Tighter Reins Vowed on Escobar Visitors
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
President Cesar Gaviria promised to tighten procedures on visits to drug lord Pablo Escobar and other jailed traffickers after reports that people wanted by the police had entered his prison. A television station reported earlier that 308 people, including more than 20 fugitives, had visited the prison near Medellin where Escobar and 14 other drug-traffickers are held. Escobar, boss of the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel, gave himself up June 19 in exchange for a government pledge of lenient treatment.
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