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...much as $3,000 per carat wholesale, on a par with diamonds. What buyers do not know is that they are almost certainly, if unwittingly, contributing to the prosperity of one of the world's most lucrative-and bloodiest-illegal businesses. Some 90% of all emeralds come from Colombia, where mining and sale of the gems are supposedly a government monopoly. In fact, reports TIME Correspondent David Lee, the business has been monopolized by outlaws called esmeralderos (emerald buccaneers), who pocketed about 90% of the $50 million that the world paid last year for Colombian gems...
...that line 14th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Jewels are smuggled out of the country by two international combines that finance the families' buying trips. Some emeralds leave in the pockets of couriers who take commercial jets. Big shipments go out by light plane from one of Colombia's 800 private airstrips...
...primary goal. however, is to win next week and earn the right to continue on to the Pan American Games in Calais, Colombia...
Russian commercial planes already fill the skies of East bloc countries, but aircraft sales to the West have been negligible. The government of Colombia was offered five YAK-40s (small, 40-passenger trijets that are modern counterparts of the old DC-3s) at a bargain price of $750,000 each with a ten-year, 3% line of credit. But when the U.S. State Department this spring announced that it would not allow the Federal Aviation Administration to certify the plane as meeting U.S. safety and performance standards, the Colombians backed out of the deal. Several aviation experts suggest that...
...Ph.D. after earning his M.A. at the University of New Mexico. Also an able economizer, Weiss saves most of his $1,500 pay to help finance his research trips. This week he leaves on his second expedition. Headed for a four-month stint in tiny Indian villages in Colombia and Nicaragua, he is taking a spectrographic kit, which he designed to measure the energy that foods produce. His concern is "human ecology": how communities obtain and use their food. Making no apologies for his work's lack of popular relevance, he says simply, "I am doing this because I enjoy...