Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...psychological blow, but Samper has been fighting ever since he was elected, so he was probably braced for it." The U.S. maintains that the Samper government will not cooperate with its anti-drug efforts, particularly because he has refused to extradite four alleged Cali cartel leaders. His defense: Colombia's constitution forbids extradition, and Samper has insisted that Colombians will take care of the drug war on their own soil. Asked about the possibility that he might lose his visa, Samper remarked that he did not need a U.S. visa to govern Colombia. The revocation will not likely hurt Samper...
...returned to her roots, singing the Spanish-language songs her grandmother sang to her when she was a child. Her album Mi Tierra (1993) was entirely in Spanish and drew from the traditional music of Cuba; a follow-up, Abriendo Puertas (1995), also in Spanish, incorporated the music of Colombia and Venezuela. Estefan was a crossover star who was able to cross back. "A lot of people told me at the beginning, 'You're too Latin for the Americans, too American for the Latins,'" she says. "And I say, 'But that's who I am.' I'm Cuban American...
...extension, the flying public. There is talk of privatizing the agency, while some experts say they hope the agency exploits revolutionary technologies to improve flight safety, such as the enhanced ground-positioning warning system, which might have averted the December crash of an American Airlines jet in Cali, Colombia. Still, even if the FAA takes a more activist role rather than scrambling for cover after the next plane tumbles out of the sky, planes will fall. "We are dealing with machines and people, and they are not flawless," says air-safety expert Rudolf Kapustin. "Sadly, we're going to have...
...BOGOTA, Colombia: Scandal-plagued President Ernesto Samper may be exonerated despite testimony from campaign officers that he accepted $6 million from drug cartels in return for political favors. The lower house of the national congress, dominated by members of Samper's Liberal Party, is expected to find that there is not enough evidence to send Samper to the Senate for impeachment. -->