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...cover story, written by Staff Writer Pico Iyer, drew on materials provided by Reporter-Researcher Edward Gomez and on reports on the drug trade from twelve Latin American and Caribbean countries. Coordinating much of this coverage was Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who is responsible for TIME's reporting in most of South America. His own travels took him to, among other places, Bolivia's two-mile-high capital of La Paz. There he interviewed Deputy Minister of the Interior Gustavo Sanchez, the country's top law- enforcement official, who has earned the enmity of cocaine racketeers...
Many contras, however, are barely surviving. Times have been hardest for Eden Pastora Gomez, the volatile leader of an ARDE branch that at one time had as many as 2,500 men. Over the past few months, hundreds of his supporters have sought refuge in Costa Rica, where many of them have sold their $1,000 automatic weapons for as little as $100. "In the best month, we got $600,000 from the gringos," recalls a Pastora aide. "Now, we get nothing. If one of us manages to scrape together $5,000, we buy rice and maybe 20,000 rounds...
TIME'S editors met last year with Daniel Ortega Saavedra, a leader of Nicaragua's Sandinista government, and also with his contra guerrilla opponent, Eden Pastora Gomez. The exchanges can be remarkably frank, as was the case with Nicaragua's Ortega. (In a gracious prelude to a hard-hitting conversation, he presented Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald and TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave with a painting by a Nicaraguan artist...
...Rica will have to pay a price. In the past two years the country has become a home for the 3,500 anti-Sandinista contras of the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE) and, in the process, a target for Nicaraguan reprisals. Just three months ago, after ARDE Chief Eden Pastora Gomez used his Costa Rican base to launch a 36-hour attack on the Nicaraguan port town of San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua struck back by firing 60 rockets at the Costa Rican border settlement of Poco Sol. Not long before the Sandinistas began assaulting the border town...
...Andres Vargas Gomez, 69, a poet and a former diplomat who is the grandson of General Maximo Gomez, the architect of Cuban independence. Imprisoned by Castro in 1961, Vargas last week was reunited at Dulles with his wife Maria, a college teacher in Miami he had not seen for 24 years. (Vargas was not in prison at the time of the release but was being held on the island.) Invited by Jesse Jackson to join an airport news conference, Vargas took issue with Jackson's self-described peace offensive. Said he: "We don't want a peace that...