Word: cartels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Radio Colombiana, Flight 52 left Bogota with a stopover in Medellin, the city known for its notorious cocaine cartel, en route to New York...
...consul general of Panama in New York and a onetime member of Noriega's inner circle. After breaking with the dictator two years ago, Blandon told a Miami grand jury that in Havana in 1984 he watched Fidel Castro mediate a dispute between Noriega and members of the Medellin cartel after Panamanian troops closed down a drug laboratory that Noriega had been paid to protect...
...would assist in the seizure of large amounts of narcotics -- cynics suggest as a way to punish traffickers who did not pay him off. But if charges filed against him are proved, those efforts were far outweighed by the assistance he gave the drug lords of Colombia's Medellin cartel...
...Noriega faction and diplomats who were nervous about the potential loss of intelligence assets in Panama. By the time of the indictments, though, it was obvious that Noriega had gone out of U.S. control. Investigators assert that the millions he was by then receiving from the Medellin drug cartel dwarfed his CIA payoffs...
...brutal war between the government of President Virgilio Barco Vargas and the Medellin cocaine cartel, the drug lords have scored the latest hit. Last week the cartel's paramilitary group, the "Extraditables," claimed responsibility for the Dec. 20 abduction of investment broker Alvaro Diego Montoya, 36, the son of Barco's closest political adviser, general secretary of the presidency German Montoya...