Word: cartelism
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...poor in Colombia when she was killed in the Avianca crash on New York's Long Island seven years ago. Tobon is angry at what the drug trade has done to the local community. His tiny travel agency is two doors from the spot where, three years ago, the cartel's killers murdered a reporter for asking too many questions. And then there are the mules...
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Close cooperation among all the links in the manufacturing chain--the cartel-like structure known as Keiretsu--turned the country into a production machine. A promise of lifetime employment and a culture of consensus created silky-smooth labor relations. For more than a decade, this unique brand of teamwork pushed Japan into an economic league of its own. No other country had such low unemployment and low inflation; the rest of the world struggled with stagflation (high unemployment and inflation). Japan racked up some $400 billion in trade surpluses in the decade. Indeed...
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...
...world's two best-known Colombians, symbolically locked in a struggle for their nation's soul. The first is the book's author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel prizewinner and one of the greatest living storytellers. The other is the late Pablo Escobar, once head of the Medellin drug cartel and a terrorist responsible for hundreds of violent deaths...
...world?s two best-known Colombians, symbolically locked in a struggle for their nation?s soul. The first is the book?s author, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Nobel prizewinner and one of the greatest living storytellers. The other is the late Pablo Escobar, once head of the Medell?n drug cartel and a terrorist responsible for hundreds of violent deaths. These two men, who achieved international fame and fortune peddling their respective though vastly different habit-forming products, seem to have been destined for a literary rendezvous. One can almost hear Garc?a M?rquez asking, Who? What? Where? When? and Why? on every...