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...Bonner started the fight with "Operation Granite," a new drug- interdiction scheme he concocted for the Caribbean. Under a plan that one top Administration source calls "remarkably stupid," DEA would base 10 Black Hawk helicopters in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for chasing down drug smugglers flying out of Colombia. One of Bonner's targets: drugs being air- dropped to boats. Customs and the Coast Guard objected, since they already operate large interdiction forces in the Caribbean. Besides, the air drops are declining, according to DEA information that agency chief Bonner apparently did not note. Attorney General William Barr, though...
...Clear, galvanized that country's literature. Four years later, The Death of Artemio Cruz, a Faulknerian tour de force narrated by a man during the final hours of his life, propelled Fuentes into the front ranks of "el Boom," the globally acclaimed wave of Latin American authors that included Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa...
...drug smuggler and dea informant named Barry Seal was involved in something fishy at the airport in Mena, a heavily wooded town 130 miles west of Little Rock. In 1984 Seal played a part in Oliver North's campaign to prove that the Sandinista government was in league with Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. In exchange for a reduced sentence on drug-smuggling charges, Seal flew his C-123 transport plane to Managua and picked up 750 kilos of cocaine from a high-ranking Sandinista official, recording the transaction with hidden cameras...
...exchange for reduced sentences, cash settlements and other favors. And although President Bush hailed last week's verdict as "a major victory against the drug lords," Noriega's conviction is likely to have little lasting effect on the overall war against the traffickers: cocaine producers in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, like the heroin processors in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, will no doubt continue to ply their lucrative trade...
Jose Franklin Jurado Rodriguez '69-70, a native of Colombia and former resident of Dunster House, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of nearly $150,000 by a panel of three judges, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday...