Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show that drugs, more than terrorism or the economy, are Spain's most incendiary political issue. The country has become a principal gateway for South American cocaine, Middle Eastern heroin and North African hashish. Although the government has stepped up enforcement, its combat against the drug trade is uneven. Colombian Justice Minister Fernando Carrillo Florez recently charged that "the battle against the Medellin cartel is being lost because of Spanish bureaucratic hassles" in delivering evidence against dealers...
Ambassador Enrique Penalosa, head of the Colombian delegation, said the two- * year preparation period had brought the issues of sustainable development -- progress without destruction of the environment -- before hundreds of officials from developing countries, each of whom would impart those lessons back home. "Even if the conference had been an apparent failure on specific treaties, it would be a success," said Penalosa, "because for the first time we are alerting the planet that development is not necessarily good if it sacrifices future generations." Others took the line that the summit's battered compromise agreements represented first steps that could...
...with most smears, Reed's allegations are built on a slim foundation of truth. Before being gunned down in Louisiana by a squad of Colombian hit men in 1986, a convicted drug smuggler and dea informant named Barry Seal was involved in something fishy at the airport in Mena, a heavily wooded town 130 miles west of Little Rock. In 1984 Seal played a part in Oliver North's campaign to prove that the Sandinista government was in league with Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. In exchange for a reduced sentence on drug-smuggling charges, Seal flew...
Some government critics say the statistics merely prove that the country remains a popular pipeline to the American drug market. In Noriega's day, Colombian cartels -- which are responsible for nearly all the cocaine sold in the U.S. -- regularly used neighboring Panama for back-door operations. But DEA officials dispute that view, arguing that the increased seizures are the result of successful sting operations. Once undercover agents infiltrate a drug ring, the agency often tries to arrange a delivery in Panama City, where the local police force breaks up the deal...
...there a law of conservation of national hostility? Just days after the demise of their enemy of the last half-century, Americans seem desperate to conjure a new one. An early attempt by Hollywood to make Colombian drug lords the national villains failed for lack of credibility. The emerging consensus is that Moscow's successor in infamy is Tokyo, which stands accused of mercilessly shelling the U.S. with reliable cars...