Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOGOTA, Colombia--A Colombian jetliner crashed on the outskirts of Bogota shortly after takeoff yesterday, and all 107 people aboard were killed. A caller to a radio station claimed drug traffickers bombed...
...spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Bogota said one U.S. citizen, Andres Escabi, was known to have been killed in the crash. He said Escabi, a native of Puerto Rico, also held Colombian citizenship and lived in Bogota...
...Colombian air force pilots in another plane reported seeing two explosions on the jet, said the director of Colombia's Civil Aviation Authority, Col. Jorge Gonzalez...
...cocaine is essentially a commodity, its price follows the same basic rules of supply and demand that apply to wheat, soybeans and pork bellies. When supply is abundant, prices fall; when there is scarcity, prices rise. Ominously, the huge U.S. seizures in the past few months, along with the Colombian government's crackdown on the Medellin cartel, have done almost nothing to boost the price of the drug on either the wholesale or retail levels. Contends Glen Levant, the deputy police chief in Los Angeles: "Surely this must validate our belief that there is much, much more cocaine...
...small proportion of total supply, cocaine use could be several times that volume. But speculation about a far bigger than expected U.S. cocaine trade is only one of the theories that attempt to explain the recent huge seizures and their failure to increase prices. Some experts contend that the Colombian government's campaign against the drug lords has prompted them to move huge stockpiles out of that country and warehouse them in Mexico...