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...extended the Mob's traditional area of operations. Riina sent underbosses throughout the Continent to take advantage of Europe's open borders. He contracted with Colombia's cocaine cartels to distribute their wares, and was exploring ways to manipulate stock and currency markets. The threat of wider Mafia influence persuaded law-enforcement agencies across Europe and the U.S. to work together...
...Chile and have even inspired some armed guerrilla movements that make the struggle for Indian rights part of their ideology. After initial anger and confusion, governments have begun to respond. In Peru, Amazonian Indians have reclaimed 5 million acres of traditional lands, using $1.3 million in assistance from Denmark. Colombia's 60 Indian tribes have won title to more than 2.5 million acres...
...SMART BOMB DOWN THE SMOKESTACK of the financial part of the Cali cartel's operations," said U.S. Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger. ! The Desert Storm terminology seemed at odds with the central metaphor of Operation Green Ice, the international drug bust that broke up the complex financial infrastructure of Colombia's premier cocaine cartel. But the effect was at least as impressive. Law-enforcement officials from the U.S. and seven other nations coordinated an assault of unprecedented depth and scope on Cali's network of money managers and distributors. At week's end, more than 165 people had been arrested...
Without doubt, he was the most pampered prisoner in all Colombia. Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin cocaine cartel who surrendered 13 months ago in exchange for a promise of no extradition to the U.S., was locked up in a suite in a luxurious prison of his own design in his hometown of Envigado. By most accounts, Escobar continued to run his billion-dollar business from behind the walls. So when Colombia's director of prisons and a deputy minister of justice entered the jail last week to tell Escobar he was being transferred to a harsher...
...Asia. Perot also had an association with Bo Gritz, an ex-Green Beret. Gritz has contended in a book that Perot once told him he had government clearance to hire an antidrug operative. According to Gritz, Perot said, "I want you to uncover and identify everyone dealing cocaine between Colombia and Texas. Once you're sure you've got them all, I want you to wipe them out in a single night like an angel of death." A Perot spokesman denies the two were ever associated in actual operations, and dismisses some of the other stories...