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Also yesterday, all 42 of Medellin's federal judges announced they were resigning, according to the Colombian radio network RCN. They had begun an indefinite strike Thursday, demanding more protection from drug traffickers...
...Secret Service imported a two-inch-thick, 75-foot-long sheet of bulletproof glass to place in front of the National Museum for today's inauguration of Democracy Plaza in order to protect Bush, Colombian President Virgilio Barco and the others. Barco's life has been threatened by drug barons in his country...
Barco began a crackdown on Colombian cocaine barons Aug. 19 and has received $65 million worth of U.S. military aid to help in the effort...
Peru and Bolivia produce more than 90 percent of the world's coca. Colombian drug cartels turn semi-refined coca paste from the two countries into pure cocaine and smuggle it to the United States and Europe...
Officials at the DEA and the U.S. attorney's office said they believe that more than half the cocaine distributed in the country now floods in through Los Angeles. Colombian drug groups bring the drug across the border from Mexico, and Los Angeles street gangs distribute it in more than 40 U.S. cities, they have said...