Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Colombia billboards feature rebel chief, slain drug baron

Bogota (AFP) April 15, 2013



Billboards showing the faces of slain Colombian drug cartel chief Pablo Escobar and a leftist guerrilla leader have set off a controversy by asking: "Guess who has killed more police?"

Colombia's National Electoral Council ordered that the billboards, which were put up in the northwestern city of Medellin by former vice president Francisco Santos, be taken down immediately.

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