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...Peruvian coast and then to Europe or the U.S. by boat. (The price supposedly paid for a gallon of fat would fetch about six times what the equivalent amount in cocaine would on the local market.) Peru is the world's second largest cocaine producer after Colombia, with a capacity to produce around 300 metric tons of cocaine annually from its coca crops...
Actually the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration does not list Quince Mil among the wettest places in the world. The title goes to Mawsynram, India, with 467 inches, followed by jungle spots in Colombia and Hawaii. (See pictures of Peru's sacred glacier melting...
...Colombia’s political situation, nor does he impose any prevailing moral framework upon the story. Its title—in Spanish, “Los Ejercitos”—refers to all three “sides” of the conflict that blights rural Colombia: the military, the paramilitaries, and the guerrillas. In the violence that comes to engulf San José, it is impossible—and, perhaps, pointless—to distinguish between them. Ismael remembers the recent attack on the local church, “by whichever army it was, whether...
...these forested hills with guerrilla warfare on her mind. Only now, those following her are Salvadoran students and American and European leftists stepping gingerly in their Reeboks and khaki shorts, and stopping frequently to drink bottled water. Welcome to El Salvador's new guerrilla-tourism industry. (See pictures of Colombia's guerrilla army...
Chavez, however, ignores this obvious justification for the United States’s presence. No matter what Colombia says, or does, to placate his displeasure—short of submitting to his ludicrous demands—Colombia will be in danger as a country. And Colombian and Venezuelan lives will potentially pay the price...