November 28, 2003

Colombian Police Detain Mexican Professor Over Drug-Trafficking Research

By MARION LLOYD

A sociology professor who is one of Mexico's leading experts on drug trafficking was detained and interrogated by government security officers in Colombia this month as he was returning here from a trip to an academic conference in Bogotá, the professor and diplomatic sources said.

Luis Astorga, a research professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, had boarded his flight when agents of Colombia's Administrative Security Department demanded that he disembark for

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