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...resources and strengthened ties with its allies in the global fight against narcotics dealers. For a while it seemed the forces of law were winning. But it now seems that the U.S. is facing an enemy more powerful and elusive than previously thought. November brought troubling incidents in Mexico, Colombia and Peru, three major fronts of the drug...
...cooperation of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials, seized and destroyed a record 9,000 tons of marijuana in raids on five plantations in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua. (The previous record drug bust took place in 1978, when 570 tons of marijuana were seized in Colombia.) In the U.S., the Mexican pot would have had a street value of about $4 billion, according to Mexican judicial officials. The sheer volume may prompt a reassessment of drug traffic...
...Foremost among the couriers from the Spanish and Portuguese is Rabassa, 62, who has spent the past two decades bringing Latin American literature north to the U.S. The authors he has translated constitute a pantheon of Hispanic letters: Garcia Márquez (Colombia), Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), José Lezama Lima (Cuba), Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico), Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil...
...arms limitation agreement is unverifiable," responded Koppel. "Moreover, he U.S. government opposed only that one form of the Contadora agreement." "There is only one form I know of," replied D'Escoto, "signed by Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Venezuela and Nicaragua, rejected by the U.S." And again to the core of the matter: "The U.S. government did not and will not sign because the Reagen administration is committed to the overthrow of the Sandinistas...
...plotters hoped to finance the operation with the proceeds from an illegal 763-lb. shipment of cocaine flown last week from Colombia to a remote landing strip in southern Florida. The FBI seized the cocaine (wholesale value: $10.3 million) four days before the arrests. According to bureau sources, two other recent Florida drug hauls were also related to the Suazo plot...