Word: cartels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court strike began in stages Thursday after federal judge Mariela Espinoza was shot down with automatic weapons Wednesday in front of her home in Medellin, headquarters of the most notorious cocaine cartel...
Bloodied but far from beaten, the Colombian cocaine cartel proved last week that it still has the will -- and the means -- to terrorize anyone who dares oppose it. On Monday Pablo Pelaez Gonzalez, a former mayor of Medellin and a vocal critic of the cartel, was being chauffeured from his home in the affluent El Poblado section of the city when at least eight gunmen riddled his car with bullets. Both Pelaez and his driver were killed. The same day, unidentified assailants fire bombed the summer homes of two prominent Medellin business executives. The attacks came as Eduardo Martinez Romero...
...government troops kept up the pressure, raiding two more ranches belonging to cocaine kingpin Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, where they confiscated two tons of weapons allegedly used by death squads. Yet despite President Virgilio Barco Vargas' determination to continue his crusade against the Extraditables, the monthlong counterattack by the cartel has begun to take its toll. Weary of the violence, Colombians from all sectors of society are calling for a truce and a direct dialogue between the government and the drug barons. Former President Alfonso Lopez Michelson says Colombia will have to "eventually sit down and talk things out with...
Some American officials were still questioning whether Barco will follow through with new deportations in the face of both popular opposition and the terror campaign by the narcotraficantes. "As the cartel continues putting bombs here and there and appeals to nationalism," said one State Department official in Washington, "Colombians are going to start asking, 'Why are we getting blown up just to satisfy the gringos...
...other way." Am I really a fellow traveler in this epidemic of addiction? Do my affectionate, albeit distant, ties to 1960s-style permissiveness render me as culpable as Bennett claims? Or is my comfortable, middle-class life so far removed from inner-city crack houses and the Colombian drug cartel that any allegation of causal nexus represents little more than politically motivated hyperbole...