Word: avianca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tobon, 50, immigrated 30 years ago from a small village in the Colombian Andes. He explains that charity runs in his family. His mother was returning from a trip to deliver clothes for the poor in Colombia when she was killed in the Avianca crash on New York's Long Island seven years ago. Tobon is angry at what the drug trade has done to the local community. His tiny travel agency is two doors from the spot where, three years ago, the cartel's killers murdered a reporter for asking too many questions. And then there are the mules...
...Belize, the Dominican Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Zaire. In addition, airlines from Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Netherlands Antilles are on the FAA's watch list. The crackdown on foreign air carriers is a result of the 1990 crash in New York of a Columbian Avianca airliner that had run out of fuel...
...January 1990 crash of an Avianca jet near Kennedy Airport was the sort of local disaster that gets TV news departments pumped up -- and often brings in Emmys. But the first station to arrive at the crash site in Cove Neck, L.I., was not one of the big boys from New York City. It was a crew from News 12, a 24-hour cable channel seen only on suburban Long Island. One of the channel's satellite trucks happened to be half a mile away when word of the crash came over the police scanner. The crew raced...
Doctors treating survivors of Avianca Flight 52 found a few surprises inside their patients. One turned out to have 29 cocaine-filled packets, each 1 1/4- in. long, in his intestines. The other had swallowed at least two dozen 2- in.-long bags containing cocaine...
...exams or until they pass the drugs in their feces. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that no warrant is necessary for this intimate search. Last year 110 people were arrested at Kennedy after drugs, mostly heroin, were found in their stomachs or intestines. Recovering from their injuries, the Avianca mules face felony charges for possessing cocaine...