Word: colombia
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...suppress dissent is unmatched since the Sandinistas took power in 1979. Two weeks ago, Roman Catholic Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, a critic of the regime, was forced into exile in Honduras. The move drew sharp criticism of the Sandinistas from Pope John Paul II during his pastoral visit to Colombia last week. The Pontiff delivered a speech declaring that he found Vega's expulsion a "nearly incredible act" that was reminiscent of the "dark ages," when priests in Latin America were persecuted. Vega, the second-ranking Catholic prelate in Nicaragua, was taken to the Honduran border by Sandinista police...
...Islamic world and in the Soviet Union and India, but even there, legal punishment is infrequent. It is more common in Latin America, where gays sometimes face extralegal violence as well. An extreme example: self-appointed vigilantes have gunned down 65 suspected homosexuals on the streets of Cali, Colombia, in the past year...
...vote was partly a slap at outgoing President Belisario Betancur Cuartas, 63, who under Colombian law could not seek re-election. Since Betancur took office in 1982, Colombia has continued to dominate a worldwide cocaine trade that has ballooned from $5 billion four years ago to $8 billion today. Betancur also had limited success in halting terrorist conflicts, which have claimed more than 2,000 lives since 1983. Around 100 hostages died last November when the army stormed the Bogota Palace of Justice after it was seized by guerrillas. Among the dead: eleven Justices of Colombia's 24-member Supreme...
...Terrorism and the support of "revolutionary movements" are tenets of Gaddafi's foreign policy. Gaddafi in fact seems hardly to have met a terrorist he didn't like--or support. In addition to funding the radical fringes of Palestinian organizations, his hand and pocketbook have been seen behind Colombia's M-19 guerrillas, the Irish Republican Army and anti-Turkish Armenian terrorist groups. He offered sanctuary to the three surviving members of the Black September guerrillas who slaughtered eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games. Gaddafi has turned Libya into a kind of Palm Springs for despots and terrorists...
...explained, resulted from his linking of Jewish Gangster Meyer Lansky to Banker David Rockefeller, which in turn led to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, to fugitive Financier Robert Vesco and to a cocaine connection that involved, among others, assorted Bulgarians and a former President of Colombia who was a close friend of former President Jimmy Carter's. Clear...