Word: colombian
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Though Noriega lawyer Steve Kollin confirmed that his client has had many messages faxed to Panama, he denied that any of them were even vaguely threatening and dismissed the allegations as "the figment of someone's imagination." Meanwhile, Carlos Lehder Rivas, the once powerful Colombian drug lord who is now in a U.S. federal prison in Marion, Ill., awaiting appeal on his life sentence for drug charges, has written to Noriega. He advised his fellow prisoner to confess all and save himself the trouble and expense of a trial. That's advice Noriega is likely to ignore as long...
Pizarro was the third presidential candidate assassinated in the past nine months. Colombian authorities say the wholesale slaughter of politicians is part of the desperate strategy of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the Medellin drug cartel chieftain who is wanted in the U.S. Army and police officials believe they have Escobar trapped in Envigado, a satellite of Medellin. To prevent his escape, Envigado's mayor has been replaced by an army colonel, and an extra 900 national police have been assigned to Medellin. A person authorized to speak for the cartel told TIME that Escobar has assigned his top hit men specific...
...extraordinary pictures illustrating this week's cover story are the work of a remarkable photographer, Ruven Afanador, 31. What Colombian-born Afanador describes as "luminously toned" portraits are not the usual stuff of our full-color magazine. "I had admired his portfolio and had been looking for several months for the right assignment for him," says MaryAnne Golon, TIME's assistant picture editor for special projects. "I knew immediately that this was the one. Because Ruven is as calm and tasteful as his pictures, he was able to work with the families of our subjects without being intrusive...
George Bush did not need to go to Colombia to boost his already stratospheric approval ratings. True, he wanted to show his support for Colombian President Virgilio Barco's war against his country's entrenched cocaine processors. He also had some serious fence mending to do with Latin leaders aggrieved by the Panama invasion. But while the Cartegena drop-by took place on foreign soil, it was designed for domestic consumption. For Bush to score points at home, all he had to do was go a few rounds on the Medellin cartel's turf and come back alive. His bold...
...arrest on drug charges of Washington Mayor Marion Barry. The Latins will decry what they perceive as an attempt by Bush to shift the flagging need to battle international communism to an expanded offensive against a new "evil empire," this one based in Medellin. If, as one Colombian commentator warns, Bush attempts to "project the image of the defiant macho," he can expect little cooperation from his Latin friends...