Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cartel profits remain solid, and Colombia is still the undisputed axis of cocaine trafficking. "It's an extraordinarily exhausting and frustrating fight," says a Western diplomat in Bogota, "and it's nowhere near being over." The stalemate raises questions about the government's inability to defeat the bad guys...
...much longer will the war go on? That question is asked with fear and frustration in Bogota. As long as cocaine trafficking is so profitable, someone is willing to kill, or die, for it. Says a U.S. narcotics expert: "Colombia is winning the war, but I wonder whether its economic and political structure can withstand the long-term commitment." The signs are discouraging. In Medellin a small boy kicking a ball around a field built by Escobar called him a hero: "To me he's more important than God." The crop of tomorrow's would-be drug lords...
Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez, a former chief of the M-19 terrorist group, abandoned the revolution two months ago to run for President in the May 27 elections. Last Thursday his campaign was cut short. While flying from Bogota to Barranquilla, Pizarro was gunned down by an assailant wielding a 9-mm Ingram automatic pistol...
...morning after the theft, there were outbursts of fantasy about a supergang of ultraprofessionals, specialists in pinching masterpieces for some Dr. No in a remote art bunker outside Osaka, Bogota or Geneva. Even the museum's director, Anne Hawley, suggested that the robbers had been following a "hit list" given them by a mastermind collector. But it seems unlikely. Apart from a Greek plutocrat who tried, and failed, to commission some heavies to lift a Raphael from a museum in Budapest in 1983, no trace of this glamorous fiction has ever been found in real life. This was more like...
Last week the former rebels received pardons from the Superior Tribunal of Bogota for the two incidents, and the panel promised similar documents for 33 other M-19 members. Still, neither rebel leader stands much chance of winning election...