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...would seem that Mexico depends on the illegal trade of drugs and guns to strengthen its economy. Maybe the main focus of the war on drugs need not be on Colombia but on the border between Mexico and the U.S. ALLISON LEE AVINGER North Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...investigation began after authorities in Cartagena, Colombia, seized 386 kg of cocaine hidden inside containers of frozen fish shipped by a company with a distribution center in Atlanta. Drug agents subsequently opened their phony office and offered to launder funds for suspected traffickers. As it played out, agents picked up drug funds in gym bags, luggage and boxes on the streets of such cities as New York, Dallas, Madrid and Rome. Then, with the help of black-market money changers in Colombia, the dollars were converted into pesos and deposited into the traffickers' Colombian accounts. But much to the dismay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laundered And Hung Out To Dry | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Miami con man with no medical training, is alleged to have operated on his plastic-surgery patients by shoving implants into their chests with a spatula; several were permanently mutilated. A drifter named Luis Garavito confessed in October to kidnapping, torturing and killing 140 children over five years in Colombia. Dylan Klebold went to the prom (and Eric Harris wanted to) before shooting up Columbine High in April. Predators with such little regard for morality and human life defy rational explanation, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad to the Bone | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

After listening to women from Colombia, Palestine, South Africa and Northern Ireland speak about contributions to their countries' peacemaking processes, Kennedy rose to offer all of the women words of thanks and admiration...

Author: By Rohit Goel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kennedy Addresses KSG Peace Initiative | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...Coalitions...like the one we are building here...are an opportunity to change the face of our country and the face of our world," said Rosa E. Salamanca Gonzalez, a Women Waging Peace delegate from Colombia...

Author: By Rohit Goel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kennedy Addresses KSG Peace Initiative | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

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