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...State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "Their people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they gunned down Carlos Luna, the security chief of Avianca Airlines, because he had the temerity to bust a 440-lb. shipment of coke hidden in the tires of a 747 jetliner bound for Miami. U.S. officials are concerned that drugs may provoke enough social unrest to lead to civil war and revolution. In Mexico official corruption tied to drug...
...cargo bellies of jets. Customs officers routinely find large caches of cocaine aboard flights from the main producing countries, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Inspectors at Miami International Airport found a near- record shipment of 3,227 lbs. of cocaine in January aboard a cargo jet owned by Avianca, the Colombian national airline. Agents discovered the drug when they opened 55-gal. barrels of passion fruit in syrup and found football- shaped containers of coke bobbing in the mixture...
...they were needed, last week brought other sobering reminders of the increasing volume--and violence--of the drug trade. In Miami customs officials seized a $119 million 747 jet belonging to Avianca, the Colombian airline, after discovering that it was carrying more than 1,000 kilos of coke, worth $600 million on the street. The contraband was hidden in a shipment of 32 boxes of cut flowers. The incident marked the 34th time in five years that illegal drugs have been found arriving aboard an Avianca plane. Meanwhile, in the Mexican narcotics center of Guadalajara, an agent...
...second airline disaster at Barajas in ten days. Late last month an Avianca 747 crashed on final approach, killing 181 people. As rescue workers once again converged on the airport last week to gather burned and mutilated bod ies, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia cut short a private visit...
Several are foreigners, and Stein, who brought them together, provides some background: Julio Santo Domingo is a Colombian "whose father runs Avianca Airlines," Giora Rachminov is an Israeli "who does diamonds," and Mimmo Ferretti is the son of a Milanese clothing manufacturer. Ferretti is a last-minute replacement for Baron Roger de Cabrol, who is sick. "We wanted to call the band Euro-trash," Stein says, "but, instead, they're called the Greencards." He is grinning: a green card is the Government document issued to resident aliens...