Word: cartelism
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...Colombian President Ernesto Samper this morning, wounding the lawyer and killing two of his bodyguards. A previously unknown group calling itself Movement for a Dignified Colombia claimed responsibility and demanded the resignation of Samper, who is beset with accusations that his campaign accepted contributions from the Cali cocaine cartel. Tuesday, the President was questioned at his palace by the head of a congressional commission that is investigating charges that Samper accepted contributions from the Cali cocaine cartel. "The commission is credible," reports Latin America bureau chief Laura Lopez. "But it's not likely they will recommend impeachment. The main reason...
Guillermo Pallomari, who is believed to be a top bookkeeper for the Cali drug cartel, turned himself over to U.S. drug officials and is reportedly cooperating with the authorities. "In terms of the Cali cartel, it's not going to hurt them much because most of the top leadership has already been caught," reports Latin America bureau chief Laura Lopez. "But if he can say the cartel wrote checks to Colombian President Samper, and that Samper accepted them, then it's going to be devastating for the president - probably fatal for his administration." More than $6 million is rumored...
Guillermo Pallomari, who is believed to be a top bookkeeper for the Cali drug cartel, turned himself over to U.S. drug officials and is reportedly cooperating with the authorities. "In terms of the Cali cartel, it's not going to hurt them much because most of the top leadership has already been caught," reports Latin America bureau chief Laura Lopez. "But if he can say the cartel wrote checks to Colombian President Samper, and that Samper accepted them, then it's going to be devastating for the president - probably fatal for his administration." More than $6 million is rumored...
...irony of last week's sensational disclosures was that in recent months Botero, who was in charge of both the military and the national police, had been decimating the Cali cartel's formidable drug hierarchy. Behind bars after 15 years of activity were billionaire Cali kingpins Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela and Jose Santacruz Londono. Botero's national police director, General Jose Rosso Serrano, is said to be on the trail of the two remaining major Cali mobsters, Rodriguez's younger brother Miguel and Helmer "Pacho" Herrera...
...document that brought Botero down and damaged Samper was the record of a July 28 interrogation of Medina that was stolen or leaked from Valdivieso's office. In the transcript Medina says that on April 29, 1994, Botero gave him the go-ahead to seek funds from the Cali cartel to help pay for Samper's campaign. Medina ultimately received, he said, two payments totaling $5.9 million...