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Meanwhile, the man most wanted by Colombian authorities is Pablo Escobar, 34, a prime suspect in the Lara killing. Escobar is believed to have united the 15 or so families that control the bulk of Colombia's drug industry into a consortium. This organization, known as the Medellin Mafia, directs most of the nation's narcotics operations, from the processing of coca leaves into paste, much of which is imported from Bolivia and Peru, to the marketing of cocaine and marijuana in the U.S. According to Colombian police, Escobar's personal holdings include at least 15 airplanes...
...have already expressed concern privately over F.A.R.C.'s reputed involvement in Colombia's $5 billion-a-year cocaine business. For their part, Colombian dope czars are indignant about charges of being connected to the guerrillas. "You can accuse me of being a narcotics dealer," huffed Billionaire Pablo Escobar, "but to say I'm in league with the guerrillas, well, that really hurts my personal dignity...
...risk we run in this campaign proof of our democratic calling?" It is true. Asking for the vote, giving the vote, believing in the vote-all imply a serious risk. And hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans are ready to face it. A well-known Salvadoran intellectual, the poet David Escobar Galindo, said something that echoes in my mind: "It is great progress that for the first time in the history of our country, we do not know beforehand who will win the elections...
...Christian Democrats. The party of the military governments that ruled the country before the 1979 coup, the loosely organized P.C.N. seems to be divided into two main factions: a rightist wing, led by Secretary-General Raul Molina Martinez, and a moderate wing, led by ex-Army Colonel Roberto Escobar Garcia, whom one foreign diplomat calls "the best man they...
...P.C.N. at first lined up with D'Aubuisson's coalition. But the Christian Democrats hoped to win over some moderate deputies. One problem, said a foreign diplomat, is that both Molina and Escobar Garcia were "talking to different people and saying different things. [The P.C.N.] is not being led by any one person. Trying to understand them is like tying up with a lot of horses. The party is wavering." Another wavering group, the Democratic Action Party, meanwhile, was said to have broken with ARENA and to have withdrawn its two deputies from the rightist coalition...