Word: ernesto
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WASHINGTON: Colombian President Ernesto Samper was officially uninvited to the United States Thursday when the Clinton Administration yanked the scandal-plagued leader's visa, citing his alleged connections to drug traffickers. The move is part of an Administration strategy to isolate the Colombian leader, a former close ally who is now widely believed to have received political contributions from the Cali drug cartel before his 1994 election. Last month, the U.S. unsuccessfully pressured members of the Colombian congress to find Samper guilty of that charge. "When the Congress absolved Samper, the U.S. had several weapons in its arsenal...
MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who came to power vowing to fight corruption, now finds himself in the position of explaining away charges of impropriety lodged by a member of his political opposition. The charge is small potatoes in the world of Mexican politics, but nonetheless made the front page of Friday's New York Times and amounts to the first smudge on Zedillo's squeaky-clean reputation. Congressman Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, an independent who was formerly a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, says Zedillo permitted a questionable $7 million payment to corn-flour giant...
BOGOTA, Colombia: Scandal-plagued President Ernesto Samper may be exonerated despite testimony from campaign officers that he accepted $6 million from drug cartels in return for political favors. The lower house of the national congress, dominated by members of Samper's Liberal Party, is expected to find that there is not enough evidence to send Samper to the Senate for impeachment. -->