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...false hope or the beginning of the market's turn? To get answers, TIME's John Curran spoke with Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Well Capital Management...
...Says Lars Christensen, chief emerging markets analyst at Danskebank: "If this serious crisis is allowed to run its course without outside intervention, it could be near catastrophic for the region and the impact on the Western European banking system is significant...
...smuggler's driver, the document forger or the guy who prepared the box lunches for the crews of the go-fast boats. Once in U.S. custody, many high-level smugglers do cop pleas and then turn on one another, allowing prosecutors to weaken their organizations, says Josh Levine, former chief of the international narcotics trafficking unit of the U.S. Attorney's office for the southern district of New York. Prosecutors also note that little guys often help build cases against the capos. But Perez estimates that half of all extradited Colombians have no business bobbing through the U.S. criminal-justice...
...charges over their heads, Uribe convinced dozens of these warlords to turn themselves in and demobilize their troops. Those who cooperated and confessed were eligible for light sentences. But soon these death-squad leaders began implicating political allies of the President, including lawmakers, army officers, the government's spy chief and even Uribe's cousin, who was forced to resign from the Senate. (The spy chief and Uribe's cousin were both charged with conspiring with the paramilitaries.) In what was widely interpreted as a move to halt the embarrassing revelations, Uribe in one fell swoop dispatched 14 top paramilitary...
...written system to oral and accusatory trials similar to those in U.S. courts, making it harder for narcos to manipulate the proceedings. Still, many law-enforcement experts vigorously defend extradition as narco-traffickers now try to rig the system in more subtle ways. Last year, Guillermo Valencia Cossio, chief government prosecutor for Medellín and the surrounding Antioquia state - and brother of Colombia's Justice Minister - was indicted for allegedly collaborating with a powerful drug baron. He was charged with conspiring with a drug baron and is under house arrest...