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Then last March, the U.S. State Department accused the government of Colombian President Ernesto Samper Pizano of lacking the political will to go after Cali's bosses. Though the State Department stopped short of suggesting that the U.S. cut off aid to Colombia and veto loans from institutions such as the World Bank, the rebuke apparently rocked Samper, whose presidential campaign was alleged to have been partly financed by the cartel...
Regarding your talk with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo [INTERVIEW, June 19], I would ask if he is living in the same politically corrupt, crime-ridden, economically bankrupt country as I am. Or is he living in paradise with Alice in Wonderland? Come on, Mr. President, face reality: your five-year economic plan is a pipe dream. Get real. Talk to the people, not just to the sycophants who surround you and live in luxury. Luis C. Calvillo Mexico City...
...year, and say that they have also begun to make deep inroads into the heroin market, previously dominated by Southeast Asian drug lords. Although Miguel remains at large, the Colombian government crowed over Gilberto's arrest. "This is the beginning of the end of the Cali cartel," announced President Ernesto Samper Pizano. A press conference at police headquarters in Bogota, where Rodriguez was paraded about like war booty, had the air of a New Year's Eve party, with confetti and streamers floating through the air. "Rodr?guez was arrested in his stronghold," says a pleased DEA official. "It shows...
Just three days before the arrest of Cali chieftain Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela in Colombia, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo discussed his nation's involvement in the drug war with a group of TIME journalists. Meeting with Zedillo in his office at the Los Pinos presidential residence were managing editor James R. Gaines, editor at large Karsten Prager and Latin American bureau chief Laura Lopez...
...test takers, who will need the calculators for as much as 15% of the exam. Those scoring below a 4 (out of 5) may not receive college credit in calculus, thereby losing a chance to cut tuition costs. And some students feel they may be losing far more. Says Ernesto Andrianantoandro, a Highland Park senior who hopes to borrow a calculator from his school to take the exam: "I took this class because I wanted to do calculus and use my brain, not some machine's brain...