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Since getting her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1980, Patricia Lara, a citizen of Colombia and a reporter for her country's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, has returned often to the U.S. Last week she was headed for her alma mater to attend an awards dinner. Instead she landed in a New York City jail cell, where she was held for five days before being put on a plane and sent back to Bogota. Lara, 35, had been detained upon arrival at New York's Kennedy Airport by immigration officials who discovered that...
...people traversed the blocked-off sections of JFK and Brattle streets. Vendors competed for the attention of the crowd by displaying such exotic wares as hand painted shirts, Indian mirrored bags, Alpaca wool sweaters, Kenya bags, cloth from Thailand, Nepal, and China, and hand-sewn bags from Colombia...
...other side of the world, along the spine of the Andes in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, both the lower and middle classes have begun smoking coca paste, a potent and addictive form of cocaine that costs only pennies a cigarette. "These countries have never had a problem like this before," says Manuel Gallardo, chief of the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "Their people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they...
...skulks in an alley and holds an odd contraption to his mouth. The voice-over cites statistics on the use of something called "crack," speaks of billions spent this year alone on illegal drugs, of the alarming rise of this, the terrifying appearance of that. Dissolve. Green fields in Colombia. Dissolve. Bolivia. John Belushi. Len Bias. Dissolve. Dissolve...
...have existed ever since the U.S. took over half of Mexico's territory in 1848. These days Mexico is producing roughly a third of all the heroin and marijuana consumed in the U.S. It has become a transshipment point for 30% of the cocaine flown into the U.S. from Colombia and further south. Unless De la Madrid acts soon, Washington fears, official corruption, already widespread, will become even more deeply rooted. "How long does it take for drug dealers to penetrate the government?" asks Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams. "It doesn't take a month, but it doesn...