Word: medellin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rodriguez Orejuela is a soft-spoken 56-year-old who complains of migraines and an expanding waistline. Since the bloody demise of Pablo Escobar of the competing Medellin cartel last year, Gilberto, in partnership with his brother Miguel and other members of the Cali cartel, has achieved a virtual monopoly on the world cocaine trade. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that along with smaller groups, Rodriguez exports 700 tons of the drug annually. Thus he is a major contributor to America's drug plague and its attendant tragedies: the crack babies, the drive-by deaths, the myriad other lives...
...defensive error gave the U.S. soccer team a 1-0 lead, and eventually a surprise 2-1 victory at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on June 22. For Escobar and the heavily favored Colombians, it led to World Cup elimination and, in the early morning hours near Medellin last Saturday, murder...
Colombian authorities believe the killing had been planned. The owner of the getaway truck told police that the assassins had robbed him of the vehicle an hour before the murder, holding him hostage at an isolated point on the road to the Medellin airport. They reportedly told him they were keeping him for two hours to prevent him from alerting the police "until it was all over." Said a police official: "This wasn't spontaneous violence. It was an execution...
...team realized its own fantasy through luck and pluck. For starters, it was playing a stricken team: Colombia, some of whose local teams have been sponsored by drug lords. Just before the game, defensive back Jaime Gabriel Gomez was removed from the lineup because his family in Medellin had been threatened with death if he played. After the defeat, coach Francisco Maturano said, "The team played bad on purpose. I don't know...
Unfortunately, not all of the news from the World Cup has been good. The U.S. team's shining moment came in their 2-1 win over Colombia. Immediately, the game became the subject of controversy. First, we heard that drug lords in Medellin threatened to kill one team member if a substitute did not start (he started). Next, the coach was fired directly after the loss. Finally, rumors have claimed that Colombian gambling syndicates bet heavily against their national team and promised bloody reprisals if they didn't throw the game...