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...stated purpose of the scheme was to help one of the Venezuelan general's agents win the confidence of Colombia's drug lords. It would also help the CIA and the DEA gather crucial information about the cartel's methods. But Grimm refused to cooperate. As she later told 60 Minutes: "I really take great exception to the fact that 1,000 kilos came in funded by U.S. taxpayer money." Besides, said DEA agents, they already had enough information about the Medellin cartel's activities. They did not need a "cockamamie" scheme to distribute tons of drugs to gain...
...reforms to follow the liberalization trends strongly advocated and promoted by the United States. NAFTA has a special access clause which allows other countries of the hemisphere to join the free trade area if they are willing to lower their tariffs and other barriers accordingly. Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia are potential candidates that could expand the North American Free Trade Area all the way down to the Southern Cone. President Salinas has said that the fate of the free trade accord has become a fundamental test of American relations not only with Mexico but throughout the hemisphere. Not many...
...country's brewed beverage only to have their descendants pledge allegiance to another? If we are to save the Square--nay, the Nation--from the advancing tide of coffee snobbery, we have little choice. We must dress up as Brits, board the next steamer in from Zimbabwe or Colombia and hurl the sacks of the offending gourmet bean into the Boston Harbor...
...Cedras to resign as a way to lure Aristide back into the country. Once Aristide arrived, he says, "he would be killed." Max Paul, who directs Haiti's ports, through which the military allegedly allows at least one ton of cocaine to pass each month on its way from Colombia to the U.S., dismissed such a scenario with a chuckle. Actually, he told TIME, the military leadership realized that if Aristide returned, "we likely would have been killed in a bloody civil war. Or we could have done what we have done: tell Clinton to get lost. We thought...
Isaza said Tsakonas then asked him where he wasfrom, and Isaza initially refused to respond."When I said I was from Colombia, he said, `Don'ttalk to me in your dirty Colombian street talk,'"Isaza said...