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Former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria called for an end to U.S. isolationism in a lecture at the Graduate School of Education yesterday...
...Gaviria, who is currently Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), emphasized that the U.S. had an important role to play in Africa, Asia and Latin America...
Such debates have their roots in the tenure of the previous Colombian President, Cesar Gaviria Trujillo. His credentials as a drug fighter are undisputed: he ordered the bloody and ultimately successful 17-month campaign against the Medellin cartel. Yet few would deny the vast, perhaps controlling influence of surviving drug lords. While the Medellin cowboys attempted reign by Uzi, shooting four presidential candidates in 1989, the Rodriguezes and fellow members of their cartel are known as the gentle dons. They rely on the quiet clout that a profit estimated by DEA at $7 billion a year can buy. The money...
Copies of the tapes also came into the possession of U.S. officials before the vote, and their decision to take no action ignited a behind-the-scenes flap in Washington. While the State Department went along with Gaviria's decision to withhold the recordings from the public -- "We can't interfere with elections," explained a State Department member -- some officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration were furious. "No one did anything," said one. "They allowed this travesty to take place. Everybody, including the U.S. government, is participating in this cover...
...tapes surfaced June 15, four days before the election, when an unidentified man handed them to Pastrana during a campaign stop in Cali. Exactly who recorded the telephone conversations remains unclear. Pastrana presented them to Gaviria on June 17. The President in turn gave them to Prosecutor-General Gustavo de Greiff, the controversial director of Colombia's antinarcotics effort, to check their authenticity. After his election loss, Pastrana made them public. "Let's bring them out in the open and get to the bottom of it," he said at a news conference. That exercise required some explanation from Pastrana, whose...