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...Fabian Giraldo's review of "Gate of Heavenly Peace" (Arts, Jan. 17 1996) revealed the author to be an ignoramus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" Review Was in Error | 2/10/1996 | See Source »

...Giraldo's analysis of "Gate of Heavenly Peace" itself is lacking, as is his spelling ("premeried"). He also fails to mention Hinton's Harvard connection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" Review Was in Error | 2/10/1996 | See Source »

...electronic eavesdropper was taping an explosive conversation. "What a funny thing, the presidency is in your hands," journalist Alberto Giraldo Lopez is heard to say to Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, a leader of the Cali cartel, which controls 80% of the world's cocaine trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Narco-Candidate? | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

Samper, the candidate of the ruling Liberal Party, went on to win the election by a bare 2.2% margin over the Conservative Party's Andres Pastrana. The day after the vote, three audiotapes containing the Giraldo-Rodriguez conversations surfaced in Bogota, casting doubt on the legitimacy of Samper's victory and throwing Colombia into political turmoil. "If it is proved that the President-elect's campaign received drug-trafficking money," said Pastrana, "he should resign because his mandate would be invalid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Narco-Candidate? | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

Samper, 43, a former economics minister in the government of President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, quickly denied that he had taken money from drug lords. His contention was supported by Giraldo, a longtime go-between for the Cali cartel, who said the Cali bosses had offered funds to both the Samper and Pastrana campaigns but were turned down. Colombians were not only skeptical, but angry that the tapes, which had come into President Gaviria's hands several days before the election, were not released earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Narco-Candidate? | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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