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...narcotics traffic by unleashing the "Cocaine Cowboys," a squad of brutal, ruthless killers. "The Colombian mafia like to hit you where you hurt most, especially your family," explains Lucho Arango, 29, a Bogotá office worker whose family ran afoul of the mafia. According to Psychologist Gonzalo Amador, mafia enforcers will kill their enemies' wives, children, servants and family friends. They have even been known to kill the family parrot "to keep it from talking," he says...
...beginning, the guerrillas were less than efficient. Central Bank President Gonzalo Carias Pineda and five other hostages managed to hide in a broom closet for six hours before being forced out by lack of air. One prisoner escaped on the first morning by bolting through the front door; two others climbed out a bathroom window...
...across his territory and establish training camps along his border. The Sandinistas even set up their government in exile in San José. That role apparently caused some frictions with Washington at the time, but the Carazo government remains strongly pro-U.S. and antiCommunist. Says former Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio Segreda confidently: "If the extreme left takes power in El Salvador, the leftists rest-of but not Central Costa America Rica." will go to Perhaps so. If it came to that, however, it would be small consolation to admire one shining pearl at the bottom...
...insufficient attention to King Alonso and his five lordly cronies--"that dismal sextet," Agate called them. The actors can do little but go through their plot-serving paces, though someone should have kept Theodore Sorel from going way out of vocal control in Alonso's "billows" speech. As old Gonzalo (a weak retread of Polonius in Hamlet), Daniel Benzali gets an unintended laugh from today's fuel-conscious audience when he outlines his ideal commonwealth as having "no use of...oil." And it is a nice touch, at the end of the play, for him to bow to Caliban with...
...three gunboats, it maintains no armed forces beyond the civil and rural guards. That largely precludes the possibility of any man on horseback seizing power by force. With no external enemies or guerrilla problem to deal with, Costa Ricans feel no need for armed muscle. Shrugs Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio: "If we spent money on arms, we would probably have a smaller per capita income...