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Some 7,500 acres of coca are grown by Colombian farmers. Until 1980, José Antonio Monroy, 50, grew corn on his ten acres near San José del Guaviare, southeast of Bogota. Now he tends 15,000 coca bushes. He harvests the leaves three times a year and processes them in a bath of gasoline, sulfuric acid, potassium permanganate and ammonia. "You can't blame me if others get poisoned with this stuff," Monroy says. "This is what they pay me for." Colombia's annual per capita income is about $1,150. From his annual end product, 35 lbs. of paste...
...head of cocaine-intelligence gathering for the DEA: "There is no Mr. Big." But another U.S. official estimates that there are 100,000 Colombians living in the U.S. who "earn major dollar figures in drugs." According to DEA officials, there are ten principal Colombian cocaine rings with members in Bogota, Miami and the middle-class New York City borough of Queens. Each ring takes in at least $50 million a year. Says Bacon about the Colombian coke gangsters: "They are tremendous organizers. They deal very effectively with Americans." They also operate as a cartel, says Bacon. Although there...
...toast to President Figueiredo, to the people of Bolivia-no, that's where I'm going-to the people of Brazil, and to the dream of democracy and peace here in the Western Hemisphere." In fact, despite his salvage attempt, Reagan was headed for Bogota, Colombia, not Bolivia...
During a five-hour stopover in Bogota, Reagan met with quasi-Populist President Belisario Betancur at his official residence, Narifto House. Betancur took office last August and has already symbolically yanked foreign policy away from unquestioning fealty to Washington, most notably with a proposal that Colombia join the Non-aligned Movement, a largely Third World group...
...Bogota's streets, the visitor's critics were far less civil. At the National University, 200 anti-American student demonstrators threw rocks, and outside Narino House the Presidents encountered a large crowd of protesters shouting "iFuera Reagan!" (Go away, Reagan...