Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been able to stanch the flow of drug imports. Federal drug agents are making impressive cases, last year seizing almost 70 tons of cocaine and more than $1 billion worth of cash and assets -- roughly double the Drug Enforcement Administration's 1990 budget of $549 million. A relentless Colombian government campaign has disrupted the Medellin cocaine cartel's refining and transportation operations...
Colombia. An eerie truce has enveloped the Great Colombian Drug War. To fend off the government's relentless assault on his empire, Medellin cartel boss Pablo Escobar Gaviria seems to have forsaken bombs and gun battles in the streets, which have killed more than 1,000 people in the past 15 months, and opted instead for high-profile kidnappings and negotiations. Since August, Escobar's mob has been holding seven journalists -- including Hoy X Hoy magazine editor Diana Turbay, the daughter of a former President -- and threatening to kill them unless a peace deal can be worked...
...largesse added to Bennett's overhead, but he could afford it. In 1987, when cocaine prices were at an all-time low, Oscar in Cali was charging Villabona about $10,000 for a kilo. Out of that, Oscar paid Colombian growers and refiners about $3,000 and Mexican smugglers $2,000. He kept $5,000 for himself. In the U.S., Villabona and Bennett charged $12,000 for a kilo and split the profits. Some weeks Bo pocketed $1 million...
...carefully scripted melodrama, but he was not the only one wondering if he would ever face a verdict in a U.S. court. The government last week found itself floundering even further in its bid to convict Noriega of allowing Panama to be used for drug shipments by the Colombian cocaine cartel. During his hearing, Noriega's three attorneys sought to have Hoeveler dismiss the case on the basis of government misconduct, including the alleged illegal taping of Noriega's telephone conversations with his lawyers from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center near Miami. Said attorney Frank Rubino: "The quality...
...sagging U.S. economy will send tremors around the globe. Since Americans are the world's biggest spenders on everything from Colombian coffee to Japanese cameras, a slowdown in U.S. buying cuts deeply into the revenue of foreign countries. That means more pain for impoverished Third World countries and slower growth for wealthy U.S. trading partners...