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...1970s that Suarez first realized the fabulous profits that could be made from coca. As an expert pilot with a fleet of planes, acquired to transport beef from his isolated ranches, he was able, so the story goes, to become a long- distance middleman between Bolivian coca growers and Colombian buyers, shipping the leaves to processing plants...
Last September the Superior Court of Justice in La Paz sentenced Suarez in absentia to 15 years in prison on drug-related charges. Catching him may not be easy, however. Earlier that year, Suarez had sent a small fleet of private planes in and out of Bolivian airports to ferry 250 guests to the wedding of his daughter Headi. Even as the revelers, some of them Bolivian dignitaries, danced through the night to the music of an orchestra flown in for the occasion, drug-enforcement agents were searching for Suarez. They had not been invited...
Even harder to uproot than the coca leaf may be the widespread conviction among South Americans that cocaine is a U.S. problem. "We are putting our lives in danger to prevent drugs from entering the U.S.," complains Bolivian Under Secretary of the Interior Gustavo Sanchez. While U.S. officials claim that it is illicit production that begets consumption, many South Americans contend that the process works the other way round. "The U.S. is to blame for most of this mess," says one Panamanian official. "If there weren't the frightening demand in the States, we wouldn't even have to worry...
...authorities refused last month to hand over the pair on the ground that a 1900 extradition treaty with the U.S. does not cover the fugitives' alleged crimes. A further difficulty is that Rich has renounced his American citizenship to become a Spaniard, and Green reportedly is now a Bolivian. The two are unlikely to return to the U.S. of their own accord. Prosecutor Giuliani has said he would accept no plea bargain from the traders unless it would "expose them to substantial prison terms...
...famous diaries, which were widely published in facsimile editions, cover the period from 1966, when Guevara launched a guerrilla crusade in the South American jungle, to his ignominious death at the hands of Bolivian troops in October 1967. At the time, the handwritten diaries were displayed only briefly; Bolivian officials believe they may have been stolen some time between 1980 and 1982 from a shoebox kept inside a locked safe. Sotheby's, which has declined to identify the current owner, has estimated a value for the diaries that must have Guevara's spirit writhing in torment...