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...approach to statesmanship was the Panama Canal, which he ordered built in 1903, after what he called "three centuries of conversation." If a convenient revolution had to be fomented in Colombia (in order to facilitate the independence of Panama province and allow construction to proceed p.d.q.), well, that was Bogota's bad luck for being obstructionist and good fortune for the rest of world commerce. Being a historian, T.R. never tired of pointing out that his Panamanian revolution had been merely the 53rd anti-Colombian insurrection in as many years, but he was less successful in arguing that...
...worst week, Tobon collected the remains of eight couriers. The youngest mule he has encountered was 17. The oldest was an 82-year-old fruit seller from Bogota who was caring for a 40-year-old retarded son. The narcotraffickers promised her that with just one trip, she could ensure her son's future. But a condom burst as she got into a taxi at Kennedy Airport, and she died an agonizing death. "I sent her home," says Tobon. Many, if not most, mules are women...
...Drug Enforcement Administration head TOM CONSTANTINE made a quiet trip to Bogota last week to say gracias to Colombian National Police chief GENERAL ROSSO JOSE SERRANO for his work rounding up the Cali dons. Since the CNP-DEA crackdown, says Constantine, the coke business has atomized, and the many small- and medium-size organizations now operating have neither the political sophistication nor the immense concentration of wealth of the old Cali guard. "That type of clout and power to intimidate doesn't exist anymore," says Constantine, who calls CNP boss Serrano "an honest guy who is determined to make...
That's the good news. The bad news is that the Cali dons are thought to be running their networks from prison. Last spring Serrano ordered his men to go into the maximum-security wing of La Picota prison in Bogota because top Cali dons MIGUEL and GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ OREJUELA were thought to be plotting a jail break. The police found evidence they had been chatting away with their aides via cell phones, hard lines, fax and the Internet. Recently, DEA officials say, the cnp raided a group of private telecommunications switching centers that the cartel leaders had organized...
DIED. VIRGILIO BARCO, 75, Colombian President whose social reforms were undercut by his unrelenting war against cocaine barons; of stomach cancer; in Bogota. A former mayor, the owlish-eyed, professorial Barco stammered his way to the presidential palace in 1986. With neither flair nor fanfare, he hunkered down to combat poverty and drugs until his administration was overrun by vengeful cartels...