Word: colombianization
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...make. Do you want to talk to them?" A week later, after an introductory phone chat and a roundabout journey to the rendezvous, Quinn found himself dining in a modest apartment in downtown Cali, a tidy industrial city in the Cauca Valley currently under occupation by 4,000 Colombian antidrug commandos and a CIA anti-crime task force. His genial host was the chief quarry of all those G-men: Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, supposedly one of the world's leading cocaine traffickers...
...brother and I intend to surrender to the Colombian justice system and ) face trial," he said. "We have a plan that we think will significantly reduce narcotics trafficking out of Colombia." He was doing it for his family, he said: his seven children, all professionals or legitimate businessmen, wanted him to lead a normal life...
...said Rodriguez, there were qualifications to any deal. "My brother and I want to surrender to justice, but by no means to injustice." They would submit only to a set of Colombian laws passed last year offering extreme leniency to drug kingpins who give up. They expected protection under a 1988 Colombian Supreme Court ruling making extradition unconstitutional, especially to the U.S. where Gilberto faces charges of drug dealing and threatening a DEA employee with death. To assure such immunity, Gilberto, whose nickname is "the Chess Player," insisted that any deal "would have to be endorsed...
...jour, Administration officials have been unhappily juggling some hot potatoes lobbed into the Justice Department by federal drug informants -- namely, a series of uncorroborated but sensational allegations that Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's erstwhile President, took hundreds of thousands of dollars in look-the-other-way money from Colombian drug cartels while in office. Though none of the claims have been supported, and the sources may have suspect motives, jittery officials fear that discounting the accusations would incur charges of political favoritism. "My guidance is to go by the book and to follow any leads that are appropriate," Deputy Attorney...
...sounded again and again by young American expatriates. Nicolas Kazloff, 24, a journalism graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, originally traveled to South America "to look for meaning in life." What he eventually found was a job designing and editing a forthcoming English-language edition of the Colombian environmental magazine Ozono. "Now I have my own magazine," he says. "That would just be a dream if I had stayed in the U.S." Another sort of vision has come true for Leslie Short, 29, of New York City...