The World - News from Feb. 14, 1989

One person is murdered every three hours in Medellin, Colombia’s second-largest city, and homicide is the main cause of death among adult males in the country as a whole, according to a U.N. report prepared for the current session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva. The 39-page document calls Colombia’s record of violence “astounding.” There were 3,413 violent deaths with political motives between January and October last year, according to a two-member U.N. team that visited Colombia in October. Medellin is the base of a cartel believed to control much of the world’s illegal cocaine trade.