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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Balaenarum Choir, which means "Voice of the Whales" in Latin, has held a spring concert for each of the last three years. While this year's performance features such distinguished composers as Vivaldi and Klengel, the highlight of the concert will be the performance of an original composition by graduate student Noam Elkies...
...years, the Latin American drug business was dominated by Mexican marijuana and heroin dealers. Now cocaine has replaced marijuana as the hemisphere's most troublesome -- and most lucrative -- drug, and the Mexicans, though still flourishing, have been surpassed in wealth and political influence by Colombians. In little more than a decade the Medellin cartel -- a small group of men who operate out of Colombia's second largest city -- has come to dominate the cocaine business, as well as the economies and governments of several countries...
...Some Latin American officials go further, laying the entire blame for their drug problems on the U.S. "If there wasn't any demand in the U.S.," says Colombian Justice Minister Enrique Low Murtra, "it wouldn't be grown and produced here." U.S. officials counter that it is illegal production that gives rise to consumption. But such finger pointing, satisfying as it might be, is increasingly hollow. While the U.S. is without question the world's biggest market for narcotics, some of the drug-exporting countries are developing a taste for the goods. In Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, consumption of basuco...
...such problems multiply, Latin Americans -- and even some U.S. officials -- have come to question the Reagan Administration's commitment to fighting the drug blight. Despite Nancy Reagan's much vaunted Just Say No campaign, the Noriega indictments and the Kerry hearings suggest that the Reagan Administration has selectively ignored some narcotics dealing. Says Representative Larry Smith, a Florida Democrat who heads a congressional task force on narcotics: "You can't tell people 'Just Say No' at home, and then turn a blind eye on the diplomatic front...
COVER: Powerful drug thugs spread corruption throughout Latin America...