Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bank accounts that have ranged as far afield as Hong Kong, in the past few years Josa Santacruz Londono has rarely ventured outside Cali, Colombia's cocaine capital. In recent weeks, though, word leaked that the reputed mastermind behind the world's No. 1 drug cartel had fled to Bogota, flushed from cover by an elite government strike force that had been chasing him for months. Santacruz is sometimes called "El Gordo" -- the Fat One -- and knowing he likes to eat, General Rosso Josa Serrano Cadena, chief of the Colombian National Police, ordered his men to stake out several...
...deep inroads into the heroin market, previously dominated by Southeast Asian drug lords. Although Miguel remains at large, the Colombian government crowed over Gilberto's arrest. "This is the beginning of the end of the Cali cartel," announced President Ernesto Samper Pizano. A press conference at police headquarters in Bogota, where Rodriguez was paraded about like war booty, had the air of a New Year's Eve party, with confetti and streamers floating through the air. "Rodr?guez was arrested in his stronghold," says a pleased DEA official. "It shows that the Colombian government is serious about this...
...investigation and Ames himself. Lewis chose Les Wiser, a 38-year-old FBI agent, to head the team that kept Ames and his wife under surveillance for nine months. The FBI tapped the couple's phone, bugged their house, combed through their trash, downloaded Ames' computer, followed him to Bogota and gathered the evidence it needed to prove...
...powerful earthquake toppled buildings, killing at least 23 people and injuring hundreds more in Colombia. Preliminary estimates place the magnitude of the quake, which was centered about 175 miles west of Bogota, as between 6.2 and 6.5 on the Richter scale. The city of Pereira (population 700,000) was hardest hit. Officials cut electricity there to avoid fires from possible gas leaks or downed power lines...
...curb its nuclear program in exchange for new light-water reactors financed by Japan and South Korea are shared by other Republicans. He will look into drug trafficking and human-rights violations in Burma, joined by Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry. He wants to withhold foreign aid from Colombia if Bogota shows favor to the Cali drug cartel, a position Kerry also embraces. He will probably call for close - scrutiny of arms sales by the Russians and the Chinese, a practice advocated by many...