Word: cartel
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...family. In recent weeks, his brother-in-law had been killed by police and his children's teacher had been murdered by PEPES, a vigilante group thought to comprise former colleagues whom the drug lord had betrayed, but also to include hit men from the rival Cali drug cartel. Fearing they would be next, his wife and children fled early last week to Germany, seeking asylum; they were promptly deported back to Bogota...
Perhaps. But Colombia's remaining drug lords want not peace, but a piece of the action once controlled by the Medellin cartel. That was underscored late in the week by the wild celebrations in the city of Cali, where rival drug lords gathered at a party hosted by cartel ruler Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela to toast the death of a hated enemy who had sworn to kill them...
...Cali cartel has already snatched most of Colombia's cocaine market from Escobar's weakened Medellin organization. But Escobar's vendetta against Orejuela and his Cali colleagues, who partially deafened Escobar's daughter in a bomb attack six years ago, had scared most of the barons away from taking advantage of Colombia's softened criminal statutes to turn themselves in. Now that he is dead, the Cali leaders are offering to stop trafficking, and even say they would be willing to serve limited jail sentences in exchange for relief from further prosecution and extradition...
...stated purpose of the scheme was to help one of the Venezuelan general's agents win the confidence of Colombia's drug lords. It would also help the CIA and the DEA gather crucial information about the cartel's methods. But Grimm refused to cooperate. As she later told 60 Minutes: "I really take great exception to the fact that 1,000 kilos came in funded by U.S. taxpayer money." Besides, said DEA agents, they already had enough information about the Medellin cartel's activities. They did not need a "cockamamie" scheme to distribute tons of drugs to gain...
...such abuse, the comedian surrenders the stage to the heckler, who suspiciously wears a clip-on microphone and who begins preaching to the crowd. "I'll tell you what this is," he says. "It's another example of this liberal Jew-run media ... in cahoots with the lesbian dentists' cartel. In Ecclesiastes 14:8 it says, 'The Lesbian Periodontists shall ... ' -- I'm paraphrasing here...