Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Born in Bogota and raised in a working-class section of Queens, N.Y., Leguizamo discovered early that his talents could buy him protection from the streetwise youths who ruled the neighborhood. "They used to let me hang out with them because I would make them laugh," he recalls. After studying drama at New York University, Leguizamo landed some supporting roles on TV's Miami Vice and soon moved on to movies. In Hollywood he has alternated between playing mama's boys (Casualties of War, Hangin' with the Homeboys) and baby- faced killers (Die Hard II, Regarding Henry...
...Colombia, they are not universally admired. Some intellectuals protest that if the drug mafia's economic power is accepted, its values will eventually be countenanced as well. Critics are especially wary of the dynastic ambitions of the high-profile Rodriguez family. "They invest in the future," says a Bogota businessman. "They are thinking of the next generation, and the one after that...
Critics fear the proud father is grooming his children for political office as well. "Someday their sons will rule part of this country," predicts Luis Gabriel Cano, who has succeeded his assassinated brother, Guillermo, as publisher of Bogota's crusading newspaper El Espectador. Unless the Colombian government can now break the hold of the cartel in Cali, Cano's warning may have come too late...
Although the Medellin cartel is experiencing a meltdown, there is no guarantee that Escobar will not continue to deal in drugs from behind bars. "Ironically, coming out of hiding could help him to reorder a business that became difficult to manage on the lam," says a Bogota-based U.S. narcotics expert. Skeptics say that Escobar could be free in as little as three years. That may be just the rest a tired don needs to resuscitate himself and his cartel...
Meanwhile, TIME's Latin America bureau chief, John Moody, and Bogota reporter Tom Quinn had been angling for an interview with cartel patriarch Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela. Finally, word came in April that the "Chess Player" was ready to talk. Moody and Quinn flew from Bogota to Cali and waited tensely for a phone call. "We began to worry: Had Rodriguez changed his mind or, worse, was this some elaborate trap?" John recalls. About 50 journalists have been killed in Colombia since 1980. But the call eventually came, and they were driven to meet Rodriguez. The Cali chief talked calmly. "There...