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...agree that no accurate assessment of the damage to U.S. policy in the region can be made until the war is over. Much will depend on the conflict's length and severity, as well as the degree of military aid the U.S. provides Britain. Diego Uribe Vargas, former Colombian Foreign Minister, echoes a common refrain when he observes that such institutions as the O.A.S. and the Treaty of Rio have not proved to be effective instruments in the current crisis. "They are like those medicines you keep in a bottle on a shelf for a long time," he says...
...Colombians are the most secretive of all, preferring to keep the business in the family. Officials estimate that there are from 50 to 150 top Colombian traffickers in South Florida, with another...
...middle-level managers. Wives, brothers, sisters and children all help out. That is one reason why narcotics agents have failed to break any of the big coke rings in the area. "Say I have 75 pounds of coke that has just come in," explains "Bena-vides," a Colombian-born drug dealer who lives in Miami. "Who am I going to trust better than my brother? I take it to his place. After all, I am paying the rent...
South Florida's crime rate. Drug shootouts are becoming a frequent sight in certain parts of Miami. At a busy intersection in Coral Gables last month, for example, a Mercedes Benz was suddenly surrounded and its 30-year-old Colombian driver killed in a burst of machine-gun fire...
Newly tightened enforcement of bank reporting laws has made it vastly more difficult to send large sums anonymously from the U.S. to Colombia, yet the money still manages to get through. Every week a Colombian air force C-130 transport plane flies to Fort Lauderdale with wooden crates containing up to $10 million from Colombia's central bank. The surplus greenbacks are being legally returned by Bogota to the Federal Reserve System in exchange for credit...