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South American drug traffickers have appreciated this attitude. Arriving regularly from Colombia, Bolivia or Peru at the Torrijos airport, they hire armored cars and off-duty policemen to escort them and their money to hotels. When a Cuban-born woman called from Miami to ask her Panamanian lawyer for help in making a deposit, he assumed she needed legal advice. What she really wanted was assistance in lugging dozens of shoe boxes filled with small- denomination bills to the bank...
Cano, an outspoken opponent of Colombia's drug cartel, is believed to be the victim of the country's ruthless cocaine kings, who annually murder dozens % of judges, police and journalists who attempt to expose their activities. After the shooting, an angry President Virgilio Barco signed back into law a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty that had been invalidated by a technicality, and decreed stiffer penalties for drug violations. Barco, who attended Cano's funeral, denounced the drug lords as men "with no God" who "stop at nothing...
...News Board: Vio Barco '87-'88 of Dudley House and Bogota, Colombia; Andrew J. Bates '90 of Pennypacker Hall and Washington, D.C.; Emily M. Bernstein '90 of Matthews Hall and New York, New York; Katherine E. Bliss '90 of Canaday Hall and Dallas, Texas; Gil Citro '90 of Holworthy Hall and Northbrook, Illinois; Jennifer M. Frey '90 of Holworthy Hall and Alleghany, New York; Terri E. Gerstein '90 of Pennypacker Hall and Cromwell, Connecticut; Julie E. Gibbons '90 of Stoughton Hall and London, England; Susan B. Glasser '90 of Matthews Hall and Montclair, New Jersey; Vindu P. Goel...
...mountainside overlooking Medellin, Colombia, some of South America's poorest families have been uprooted from the garbage dumps where they once foraged and deposited in 4,000 neat, red-tiled homes. At the entrance to the housing development, a large billboard proclaims the author of this generosity: PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA, a local billionaire who has been called one of the world's richest men. Escobar is also one of the world's richest fugitives. Last week a federal grand jury in Miami announced that Escobar and four other Medellin tycoons had been indicted because of the source of their immense...
Considering the billions of dollars the five bosses -- known collectively as the Medellin Cartel -- are believed to possess, they should have no shortage of safe havens. Nor has there been any short circuiting of the cartel's power. Last week, on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia, a squad of four killers assassinated Colonel Jaime Ramirez, the respected chief of that country's antinarcotics force who led the highly successful Tranquilandia raid...