Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international appeal to return to your own country," said Karas, a Colombian native...
...COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY. THAT, IN EFfect, was the response by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to growing signs that Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria, a fugitive since July, is living in terror and squirming for a deal. Escobar's nemesis is a mysterious paramilitary group called Pepes, which may be a faction of the Medellin cartel that has turned on its longtime boss. Recently Pepes has launched a Mafia-style vendetta, even bombing the home of Escobar's mother. Said a DEA official: "He's facing his own medicine...
Escobar reportedly has agreed to turn himself in to Colombian authorities in return for the safe passage of his wife and two children to the U.S. DEA officials deny that the U.S. has agreed to such a deal. But any accord that is eventually cut with the Colombian government, they warn, could well portend a new narco era dominated by -- who else? -- Pepes...
...could." Scrambling down the slippery, ash-coated outer slope of the cone, he and three other scientists were bombarded with boulders the size of TV sets. "They split open when they hit the ground," said McFarlane. "Inside they were glowing red." One of the flying boulders crushed to death Colombian geochemist Jose Arles Zapata. Williams was felled as well, but managed to drag himself to partial shelter behind a huge rock...
After learning of the deaths of their six colleagues and the three Colombian tourists, many of the volcanologists attending the Pasto conference quietly left. The few who remained for the final session completed proposals to pursue gravity and gas analysis forecasting. The deaths on the mountain also led them to call for more rigorous safety measures on volcanic sites -- and to demand an end to tourism at Galeras. Visitors are no longer permitted to approach the volcano...