Word: cartels
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Rodriguez Orejuela is a soft-spoken 56-year-old who complains of migraines and an expanding waistline. Since the bloody demise of Pablo Escobar of the competing Medellin cartel last year, Gilberto, in partnership with his brother Miguel and other members of the Cali cartel, has achieved a virtual monopoly on the world cocaine trade. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that along with smaller groups, Rodriguez exports 700 tons of the drug annually. Thus he is a major contributor to America's drug plague and its attendant tragedies: the crack babies, the drive-by deaths, the myriad other lives...
This week, two months after Quinn's luncheon interview, the Colombian government appears to be willing to reopen discussions of surrender. In a written statement to TIME, Samper said he had concluded that merely chasing after traffickers was not effective. "It is no good to have the cartel bosses in jail if they continue narcotrafficking," he wrote. "We know from experience that it is more important to dismantle the cartels than to incarcerate their leaders. Jailing them is necessary, but it is just not enough." An aide amplified that "the door is open on the surrender program again...
...main line. A whole lot of other interesting stuff feeds smoothly into it: the fight against cancer by Jack's shrewd old mentor (James Earl Jones); an FBI secretary seduced by the oiliest drug runner; the field operatives led by Willem Dafoe who do spectacular damage to the cartel's operations; amusing glimpses of the life-style of its rich and infamous boss. What's truly appealing about the film is that it plays fair with all this material and the audience. Unlike the typical action movie, which is always trampling over narrative logic in order to rush...
...this cinematic extravaganza of another Tom Clancy novel, Jack Ryan even has the same wife (Anne Archer) and child (Thora Birch), but here instead of battling the "other" of the Irish Republican Army, he goes head-to-head with the Columbian drug cartel, and more specifically the links the illegal drug trafficking organization has to the United States government. Ryan even gets to ball out the president played by Donald Moffat. With all of these differences, it seems as if Clancy should have switched the names of the two novels, making this one "Patriot Games" and the other dealing with...
Samper, 43, a former economics minister in the government of President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, quickly denied that he had taken money from drug lords. His contention was supported by Giraldo, a longtime go-between for the Cali cartel, who said the Cali bosses had offered funds to both the Samper and Pastrana campaigns but were turned down. Colombians were not only skeptical, but angry that the tapes, which had come into President Gaviria's hands several days before the election, were not released earlier...