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...Coast Guard cutter intercepted the Biscayne Freeze, a 240-ft. freighter registered in Panama. After firing five rounds from a .50-cal. machine gun across the Biscayne Freeze's bow, ten men boarded the ship, found 31 tons of pot aboard and arrested the crew, including 22 Colombian nationals. Seven days later, federal and local officials closed in on the freighter Indomable, believed to have loaded its cargo in Colombia, as it docked in the Maine town of Bremen. They confiscated 30 tons of marijuana and arrested 24 people, including eight Colombian nationals...
...flying coke from Colombia to a landing strip near Biloxi, Miss. Not until last May, however, did agents get more tangible reports that Hetrick was planning to use his Mojave hangar as a place to off-load coke and marijuana from incoming aircraft. He had even boasted about a Colombian coke connection, federal agents learned. They were also told that Hetrick was looking for a U.S. bank to convert his illegal profits into a legitimate savings account more easily. The DEA, Customs Service and FBI agreed to set up a joint undercover operation to make a case against Hetrick...
Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda (a 1971 Nobel laureate) once honored his colleague's work as "the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes." The Swedish Academy echoed that judgment when it awarded Colombian Author Gabriel García Márquez, 54, the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature last week. "His novels and short stories," reads the citation, combine the fantastic and the realistic "in a richly composed world of the imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts...
...Nixon Administration pressured Mexico to spray its grass crop with paraquat, a potent weed killer. U.S. smokers, frightened of potential lung damage from tainted Mexican grass, turned to growing their own. That reliance on the domestic weed was further heightened when the DEA cracked down on the smuggling of Colombian marijuana into the U.S. Today, though many growers cultivate small quantities of pot strictly for their own or friends' use, 100,000 or so, according to NORML, the pro-pot lobby group, are commercial growers. They supply about 20% of the grass consumed annually by the nation...
...month grace period before starting foreclosure on a property. In California, homeowners legally have 90 days to make up delinquencies once a foreclosure starts. After that, lenders can move to sell the property. However, some moneymen offer almost no grace period. A group of private investors started proceedings against Colombian Immigrant Francisco Cubillos in March when he missed a $1,131 payment by just 17 days. Cubillos was able to keep his Chatsworth house only after he paid a $600 penalty along with the missed installment...