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Carlos Casta?o Gil had plenty of enemies. You expect that of a death squad commander in Colombia who killed hundreds of peasants, leftist polticians and suspected Marxist sympathizers. But in the end it was his own older brother Vicente, "El Professor," who supposedly hired the assassins who killed Carlos. He was shot two years ago in an ambush, at the age of 39. But it wasn't until Sept. 1 that Casta?o's skeleton was dug out of a shallow grave in the jungle and identified by DNA testing. You wouldn't exactly call it a dignified burial for Casta?o...
...Casta?o's reign of terror originally began as act of vengeance. His dairyman father was kidnapped in 1981 by Marxist rebels and held for a $7,000 ransom. The sum was paid, but the rebels killed him anyway. After that, Casta?o swore revenge and eventually raised a 30,000- man army of mercenaries funded by big landowners and cocaine traffickers. Then he and his brothers strong-armed their way into the drug trade, exporting a total of about 17 tons of coke and heroin to the U.S. and Europe...
...staunchest American ally in Latin America, was re-elected president of Colombia in May. A conservative who was first elected in 2002 and holds a certificate in Administration and Management from Harvard, Uribe has won acclaim for improving security in a nation long ravaged by drug cartels, Marxist insurgent groups, and right-wing paramilitaries—although some have accused him of having ties to these groups...
...Those fears of Humala, who came in first in the initial voting on April 9 after having only polled in the single digits last year, stem from his complicated, controversial background. His father is the founder of an ultranationalist, neo-Marxist movement that preaches the superiority of indigenous Peruvians over the country's descendants of the Spanish and promotes violence against those lighter-skinned elite. His mother has railed against homosexuality, while his young brother is in prison for leading an army reservists' attack on a police station last year that killed four officers...
Before he began his remarkable military campaign, Kabila had been dismissed as what a Clinton Administration official called a "bar revolutionary," who spent most of his time drinking in taverns far from the front or negotiating shady gold and diamond deals. A former Marxist who once held a group of Americans hostage, Kabila is still considered ideologically suspect in Washington. While he is reported to have restored law and order and welcomed foreign investment to the areas he has conquered, he has also begun "social re-education" programs. And so far, U.S. analysts say, he has shown a worrisome antipathy...