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Assailants shot and critically wounded the senate vice president in Medellin, Colombia, Friday, apparently for helping write a new law that offers leniency to drug traffickers.
Three men and a woman shot Sen. Londono Cardona in the head and arm at the University of Medellin where he teaches, Caracol radio reported. Caracol said a person representing a previously unknown group calling itself Death to Protectors of the Cali Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack and threatened “more terrorist actions.”
Londono helped write a law passed by congress and signed by President Cesar Gaviria Tuesday offering leniency to drug traffickers who surrender and tell authorities about their criminal operations.
