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It’s the quarterfinals of Colombia-hosted Copa America ’01—the Western Hemisphere’s version of the World Cup—and though the game is exciting, I’m much more entertained by my surroundings. I’m not in some rowdy sports bar downing shots of the local liquor or at one of the theaters watching the game on a movie screen...
...personal nightmare: out of college without a job. I stay quiet for a while, not really knowing what to say. Finally, the cabby asks me what I think about the Colombia-Honduras soccer game on Thursday. Ah soccer, Colombia’s solace...
Though the Arellanos are the heirs to that world, they are also a ghastly mutation. Their uncle Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, an ex-cop from the violent Pacific Coast state of Sinaloa, was the first Mexican drug capo to link up with Colombia's cocaine cartels in the 1980s. He and other druglords shared the Tijuana corridor, but after they savagely murdered DEA agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, in league with senior police and political figures, Mexican authorities put them in jail. Into Tijuana roared the seven Arellano brothers, including the handsome Benjamin, their CEO; chubby Ramon, the enforcer; finance...
...changing the chairmanship and hence the agenda of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeffords' switch is likely to affect everything from decisions over treaties to key appointments to congressional oversight of such policies as U.S. support for counterinsurgency efforts in Colombia as part of the war on drugs. It's already clear, for example, that the Bush administration's appointee to head the State Department's Latin America desk, Otto Reich, is in trouble. Reich ran the domestic propaganda campaign for the Reagan administration's program backing the Nicaraguan contras, and was nominated with strong backing from right-wing anti...
...deaths of two members of an American missionary family [in a small plane shot down by the Peruvian military, which thought the plane was involved in drug smuggling] should serve as a wake-up call [NATION, May 7]. With innocent missionaries being killed, Colombia torn apart by prohibition-fueled violence and America's prison population at record levels, perhaps it's time for politicians to drop the drug-war hysteria. As a Christian, I feel I should ask myself, What would Jesus do? The answer is not to persecute, incarcerate and deny forgiveness to drug users--the essence of America...