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...late. Haiti, perfectly situated between Colombia and Miami, has become the Yankee-proof drug-trafficking nexus the Colombian cartels have long dreamed of, a place whose police corruption and judicial void make U.S. interdiction efforts all but futile. "There is no institutional [structure] there for us to work with," says U.S. Customs Service commissioner Raymond Kelly. "Everything is broken...
...were recently caught with their own bulging satchels of dope cash--are in the pockets of traffickers. The Haitian coast guard has made a few impressive busts in recent years, but it has fewer than 100 men and about 10 ships--some of the best of which are fast Colombian cigarette boats that agents have seized from dealers...
...Castano near the Panama border? Because, he explained, his men had been tracking FARC guerrillas moving out of secret bases deep inside the Panamanian jungle. Last Saturday night a contingent of 300 FARC rebels attacked a Colombian army outpost in the Darien rain forest. Mortars screeched through the mist, and the dark jungle engulfing the army camp was suddenly lit by hundreds of blazing rebel guns. The Colombian army sergeant in charge and his 60 men faced annihilation. In the confusion and crashing grenade explosions, it took the FARC attackers a while to realize that they were suddenly being shot...
Rebels accuse the AUC of being a sinister arm of the Colombian military, but Castano denies any formal link. However, he does admit to having furtive contacts with the lower echelons of the army and police. But he says these ties are forged by having a common enemy, the guerrillas. "Once the superior officers come into battle, we clear off because they shoot at us," he says. So far this year, the army says it has killed more than 70 of Castano's milita and captured more than...
...peasants fled their homes during the past decade. "This is an irregular war, and the enemy is a military target, whether in uniform or in civilian clothes," says Castano. "When this is over, let them judge me before an international tribunal--but I want the guerrilla leaders and the Colombian army there beside me in the dock." He insists that his forces never enter a village shooting at random. They are usually led by a defector or captive who singles out the collaborators. "Do innocent people get killed in this war? Yes, they do, but they're a minority," claims...