Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this trip there are mainly Dominicans, but also Ecuadorans, Haitians and a Cuban. Manuel Diaz, a Colombian traveling with his wife, paid $8,000 for the trip. "I have a job waiting for me at a grocery store on Northern Boulevard, Queens," he says proudly. Mar?a Rodriguez, a Cuban, says she simply could not earn enough in her native land. "Look at my hands," she says, showing fingers and palms callused from years of manual labor. "I am still young. But there is no way to survive where I come from. I left my children with relatives...
...named a Mexican drug lord to its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list, the first time an international drug trafficker ever made the roster. Juan Garcia-Abrego, whose Gulf Cartel has shipped tons of Colombian cocaine to the U.S., is under investigation for bribing a former Mexican deputy attorney general to protect his organization. That official, Mario Ruiz Massieu, is now the center of a massive corruption scandal that has shakenMexicoto the core. Ruiz Massieu's brother, a top political official, was murdered in September, allegedly in a plot masterminded by the brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Ruiz...
...Colombian jetliner crashed near Cartagena, killing all 53 of its passengers but one -- a nine-year-old girl who suffered only a broken shoulder after the crash landing in a swamp. It was "a miracle from God," according to Colombia's civil aviation director...
Girl Survives Colombian Crash...
...from Italy, Spain and Britain -- also found links between the Italian Mafia and the Cali cartel in Columbia. Along the way, agents seized paintings by Rubens, Picasso and Reynolds from drug smugglers. The DEA used a private bank in the British West Indies to nab the cartel members. Seven Colombian drug trafficking and laundering organizations opened accounts at the bank, providing agents called "an unprecedented window" into the way drug organizations work...