Word: cartels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Secret Service agents to hitting the Georgetown cocktail circuit. But Lake has not been shy about asking the CIA to undertake covert operations. During the first four years of the Administration he backed sensitive CIA operations to spy on and help bring down kingpins of Colombia's Cali drug cartel...
...Woods, who brought one of the first state suits that aim to recoup billions of dollars in Medicaid money spent on illnesses related to smoking. Attorney general Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III of Minnesota emphasized the battles ahead: "This is like busting a street drug dealer to get the Colombia cartel. We are very serious about going ahead and making sure the entire industry is transformed...
...consorted with drug traffickers since at least 1993, but the apartment that triggered the investigation had been given to him by drug dealer Eduardo Gonzalez Quirarte. He is reputed to be a lieutenant of one of Mexico's most notorious narcotraffickers, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alleged leader of the Juarez cartel. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, wiretaps reportedly confirmed that Gutierrez and two top aides had taken protection money from a Carrillo lieutenant. The general was then placed under arrest...
...urging Clinton to decertify Mexico. In the letter, sponsored by California Democrat Diane Feinstein, the group said Mexico's inability to deal with drug trafficking was "overwhelming." The criticism arose primarily from the arrest last week of Mexico's anti-drug czar on charges of taking bribes from drug cartels. But Clinton chose re-certification instead, primarily because to deny Mexico the aid could seriously damage attempts to keep drugs from streaming across the border into the U.S. "It would be difficult to maintain the same level of cooperation when one has received a slap in the face," said Mexican...