Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C: Federal agents say they have broken up a Mexican-Colombian drug ring, arresting dozens of people across the country Thursday in an operation code-named "Zorro-II." The government charged 29 with conspiracy, and an additional 136 were arrested. Attorney General Janet Reno said the operation is the first undertaken by the Drug Enforcement Administration that targets a cocaine ring's top organizational structure down to the street-level crack cocaine distributors. "It's the first case involving a Mexican distribution net of cocaine," says TIME's Elaine Shannon. "The Mexican cocaine distribution network represents a new trend...
...drugs that the U.S. has labeled as not cooperating with the federal drug enforcers. U.S. officials said the decision will affect $50 million in U.S. government investment guarantees in Colombia and another $550 million in prospective guarantees. It also means the U.S. will vote against $1.3 billion in Colombian loan requests to the World Bank. About $30 million in anti-narcotics and humanitarian aid will not be affected. Some members of the administration had argued against the sanctions and said they would weaken an already shaky Colombian economy. But charges that Colombian President Ernesto Samper's government has been influenced...
...winter's onslaught, which explains why every year at this time thousands of sun-starved American and European tourists migrate to St. Kitts by plane and cruise ship. Most of them are unaware that the sleepy little isle also accommodates a more sinister group of visitors, emissaries of the Colombian drug lords who have established a thriving cocaine-transshipment base there...
...cocaine on the U.S. Virgin Islands, and their boats lurk in the waters off St. Eustatius and Cuba. St. Lucia has a growing population of cocaine addicts and the second highest murder rate in the world. Drug gangs terrorize Trinidad. St. Martin is the new meeting place for the Colombian and Italian drug Mafias--a real Star Wars bar of drug riffraff, claim DEA agents. Antigua has become the newest offshore banking center for shady American and Russian businessmen...
...COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT UNDER FIRE...