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...would come when--not if--the truce covering the zone failed to get renewed Jan. 31. As he spoke, the army sent 3,000 troops to reinforce positions on the zone's borders. Pastrana, who had not ordered the movements, cut short his trip. Before he got back to Bogota, however, the military declared that it recognized his authority. While it may have backed off, the military still managed to send a warning, though it came across less discreetly than planned. "The general," a military source said, "talked more than he should have." The implication: the next coup attempt...
...People here can help [if they] get more information out of the government. I hope that [people will see] that this is just one small fight in a larger picture," said Wellesley College student and Bogota, Columbia native Mariana Mejia...
...Colombian government battle an unholy alliance of drug lords and Marxist guerrillas. As a welcoming gesture, the rebels bombed three banks in Cali and blew up a section of coastal highway the day before Clinton arrived, while students protesting the US aid occupied a building in the capital, Bogota. Most of the violence in the country - where the murder rate is said to be higher than the auto theft rate - is far from the relatively tranquil resort town of Cartagena, U.S. officials said reassuringly. But you can never been too careful in a country overrun by narcoterrorists: Colombia deployed...
...dollar cartels were replaced by more than 40 independent organizations that are difficult to penetrate and whose leaders have been just as enterprising as the old kingpins. When Peru and Bolivia put the squeeze on coca cultivation, the traffickers moved their crops to southern Colombia, which the government in Bogota had largely ceded to Marxist guerrillas. Then, improved refining techniques enabled traffickers to increase output. To combat the growers, the White House has asked for $1.6 billion in aid. For foreign aid, it's a staggering sum. If Congress approves the money--and Republicans there seem eager to--Colombia will...
...They receive death threats and phone calls, and in Bogota and in the rest of the country are forced to use self-censorship. But it's our role to tell things as they are and as they happen," he said...