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...compound, hidden deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle, 400 miles southeast of the Colombian capital of Bogota, was called Tranquilandia (the Land of Tranquillity). Amid a hail of gunfire, 40 Colombian policemen in two helicopters and a small plane touched down on its clandestine airstrip. What they found was a busy, self-contained complex devoted entirely to the production of cocaine. Tranquilandia included a dormitory large enough to sleep 80 or more, and a dining area complete with dishwasher and refrigerator. Its bathrooms were furnished with showers and orange-and-white flush toilets made of Italian ceramic. Among...
...noon, activity throughout the country stopped for two minutes. People at office windows, on the street or in buses waved white handkerchiefs. Car horns blared, church bells pealed, and radio and television stations broadcast the national anthem. In downtown Bogota, more than 10,000 people gathered in silence as 1,000 doves were released from the parliament building. The occasion: the beginning of an unprecedented yearlong truce between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (F.A.R.C.), the largest of the country's five leftist guerrilla groups...
DIED. Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, 40, Colombia's Minister of Justice; by assassination, when two gunmen on a motorcycle pulled up to his car and shot him eight times with a machine gun; in Bogota. The first Colombian law-enforcement boss to wage a vigorous campaign against his country's powerful drug traffickers, Lara refused to wear a bulletproof jacket despite death threats. One of the two hitmen died immediately when the motorcycle crashed; the other, captured minutes later, claimed that "everything was arranged in Medellin," center of Colombia's $5 billion-a-year drug trade. After...
...home in Montevideo. Secondly: in the photo she appears alone with me, but at our side, at the same time, were many of my Uruguayan friends and friends from the Russian embassy who, together with her, accompanied me to the airport where I disappeared alone to Bogota. Third: in the photo she is at a distance from me of no less than 50 centimeters. Thus through TIME, I wish to advise all of the women of the world, including North Americans, to please stay a distance of no less than one kilometer away from this wicked Evtushenko, because immediately some...
EVGENY EVTUSHENKO Bogota, Colombia...