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...Dominican who dealt with a Colombian. Nowadays, you're just as likely to find yourself face-to-face with a Mexican. Your dealer's ethnic roots probably won't matter to you so long as the product is as advertised. But to DEA agents, the decline and fall of Colombia's once impregnable Cali cartel is a sensational development--surpassed only by the meteoric rise of the Juarez cartel now headed by Vicente Carrillo Fuentes. As the U.S. has cracked down on drug cartels in Colombia in the past decade, the business has shifted north and into the hands...
CONFESSED. LUIS ALFREDO GARAVITO, 42, a drifter, to killing 140 children in Colombia during a five-year period. Garavito told police he lured the children with soft drinks, money and disguises. Some 114 bodies have been found so far, many dumped in a ravine...
Erlick, who worked as a foreign correspondent in Colombia from 1975 to 1984 for Time Magazine, the New York Times and the Miami Herald, said that the violence against journalists and their subjects is directed mostly at Colombian citizens...
...Before I went I had been following the news from here," he said. "My impression was that everything in Colombia was about drugs. It's not excusable but it's quite common. But the violence there also had a political base as well...
...also agreed that foreign journalists are much safer in Colombia than local ones, as he and journalists like him are not breaking new stories or doing the same type of investigative reporting as someone from the local press...