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...guarded some of the cold war's darkest secrets before being fired by Richard Nixon for refusing to embroil the agency in a Watergate cover-up; in Washington, D.C. Helms played a critical role in plotting the assassination attempts on foreign leaders (including Cuba's Fidel Castro) and overthrowing Marxist Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1971. Tall and dashingly good-looking, Helms mastered the art of spy craft at the wartime Office of Strategic Services before it became...
Just sometimes, though, there is no alternative to a military solution. FARC, the largest group with 17,000 fighters, has no interest in participating in a pluralistic society. FARC is a pseudo-Marxist revolutionary group (is there any other kind?) that has about as much to do with liberalism as al-Qaeda has to do with Islam. The right wing AUC, which developed in response to the government’s failure to provide security, has been known to extinguish whole villages in its reactionary zeal. Both would rather traffic in drugs than in ideas...
...austerity would improve living standards for all, more of the region's 500 million people are stuck in poverty, and its economies look more like Global Crossing than the global players they aspired to be. The sense that Washington was losing influence in Latin America deepened last week when Marxist guerrillas fired mortar shells in Bogota, killing 20, during President Alvaro Uribe's inauguration...
...investigation of hundreds of boxes from which mail is sent to a sorting office in Trenton, New Jersey, where four anthrax-laced letters were postmarked last year. COLOMBIA State of Emergency Newly installed President Alvaro Uribe declared a state of emergency in response to a wave of attacks by Marxist guerrilla groups. The decision will allow the President to impose new legal and security measures to confront what his government called "a regime of terror in which democratic authority is sinking." As one of the first consequences of the state of emergency, the government decreed a one-time tax, which...
...Colombia's new President. No group claimed responsibility, but several factors pointed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (farc): the deadliness of the strike within 800 m of the presidential palace, the use of homemade mortars and an earlier pledge by Uribe to get tough on the Marxist guerrilla group. "Expect action every day, but not miraculous results," said Uribe...