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However pressured his life became, Carrillo died at the height of his power. Forging important alliances with Colombia's Cali drug cartel in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Carrillo pioneered the use of Boeing 727s and cargo aircraft to move tons of cocaine from South America to Mexico, where supplies were then shipped and trucked across the U.S. border. More significant, Carrillo demanded that the Colombians pay him in white powder rather than cash. This allowed him to set up vast U.S. distribution networks of his own. With most of the Cali dons imprisoned since 1995, Carrillo had become...
...pool with Secret Service agents to hitting the Georgetown cocktail circuit. But Lake has not been shy about asking the CIA to undertake covert operations. During the first four years of the Administration he backed sensitive CIA operations to spy on and help bring down kingpins of Colombia's Cali drug cartel...
...States Thursday when the Clinton Administration yanked the scandal-plagued leader's visa, citing his alleged connections to drug traffickers. The move is part of an Administration strategy to isolate the Colombian leader, a former close ally who is now widely believed to have received political contributions from the Cali drug cartel before his 1994 election. Last month, the U.S. unsuccessfully pressured members of the Colombian congress to find Samper guilty of that charge. "When the Congress absolved Samper, the U.S. had several weapons in its arsenal, one of which was revoking his visa," says TIME Mexico City bureau chief...
...extension, the flying public. There is talk of privatizing the agency, while some experts say they hope the agency exploits revolutionary technologies to improve flight safety, such as the enhanced ground-positioning warning system, which might have averted the December crash of an American Airlines jet in Cali, Colombia. Still, even if the FAA takes a more activist role rather than scrambling for cover after the next plane tumbles out of the sky, planes will fall. "We are dealing with machines and people, and they are not flawless," says air-safety expert Rudolf Kapustin. "Sadly, we're going to have...
...World Bank. About $30 million in anti-narcotics and humanitarian aid will not be affected. Some members of the administration had argued against the sanctions and said they would weaken an already shaky Colombian economy. But charges that Colombian President Ernesto Samper's government has been influenced by the Cali drug cartel led Clinton to decide for the sanctions...