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...MONTHS SINCE HE BECAME President, Ernesto Samper Pizano has dodged bullet after political bullet, each carrying accusations that his 1994 election campaign received millions of dollars in contributions from the Cali cocaine cartel. He has responded that if drug funds were accepted, it was without his knowledge. But last week the President's evasions were firmly contradicted: a former close associate charged that Samper was indeed aware of the cartel connection. Though many Colombians all along have believed that the Samper campaign had a Cali taint, the latest allegation stunned the country. As calls for the President's resignation mounted...
Last August, in an apparent effort to shield Samper, Botero resigned as Defense Minister after being implicated in the soliciting of campaign funds from the Cali kingpins; two weeks later, he found himself in detention, under investigation by the Prosecutor General's office. Though Samper repeatedly declared his belief in Botero's innocence, Botero came to suspect that the President was planning to make him the scapegoat in the scandal. He reached the breaking point on Jan. 21, when Samper failed to appear for a scheduled dinner at the barracks, sending in his place Interior Minister Horacio Serpa. Botero became...
...failing grade, for its efforts in the narco wars. If the certification ruling, due March 1, goes against Colombia, repercussions on preferential trade and credit arrangements would be severe. The U.S. government was pleased last summer when the Colombians scored a coup by jailing six of the seven top Cali barons. However, Washington officials grumbled about Samper's hesitancy in pushing for harsher antitrafficking and money-laundering legislation, and they complained volubly this month when Jose Santacruz Londono, one of the top three Cali dons, managed a suspect's escape from a maximum-security prison...
...rejected calls to step down and suggested a referendum to let the people decide his fate. Critics denounced the plan as costly and having the potential to incite a civil war. Students and veterans demanded that Samper resign after his ex-campaign manager said the President had known the Cali cartel was funding his election bid with millions of dollars. Former campaign treasurer Santiago Medina fueled their anger by saying Samper personally gave the order to distribute some $400,000 of drug money for his campaign...
Approximately 100 more were turned away from the theatre, which was packed with those gathering to celebrate the life of the Winthrop House senior who was killed on December 23 in the crash of the American Airlines plane en route to his home in Cali, Colombia...