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Though he's an expert horseman, the Harvard-educated Uribe, 49, looks less like the Clint Eastwood persona he cultivates and more like one of the legions of owlish technocrats who took over Latin America in the 1990s. He was hardened as mayor of Medellin, the continent's most violent city. Though his father, a rancher, was a friend of Fabio Ochoa, the late patriarch of the city's notorious drug cartel (the two shared a love of horses), Mayor Uribe was a noted crime buster there. As governor of northern Antioquia and as a Senator, he built a reputation...
World-weary Fernando (German Jaramillo) has come home to Medellin "to die." This does not stop him from taking up with an angel-faced teenage killer named Alexis (Anderson Ballesteros). The kid was trained by the drug cartel but will off anyone who offends him or his lover. As deaths pile up, they have a comic effect; love apparently means never leaving the safety on. Full of sacrilegious rant, absurdist affectlessness and pop social criticism, this film plays like an old B movie: narratively improvisational, delusionally pretentious, weirdly watchable...
...using false documents. The men were seized at an airport in Bogotá as they prepared to leave the country. Colombian authorities said the suspects could be held for eight months while the state prepared its case. A series of attacks, including a powerful car-bomb blast in Medellin, underscored the country's vulnerability to terrorism...
...wife and two kids to visit his favorite country, the U.S., where they toured Disney World, with the full knowledge of U.S. officials. In 1993 Castano and his late brother Fidel reportedly did antidrug authorities the great favor of helping police hunt down Pablo Escobar, leader of the powerful Medellin cartel...
What happened? Weren't we supposed to be winning the drug war in Latin America? The infamous Medellin and Cali cartels were busted in the mid-1990s. And since 1995, successful eradication programs have reduced coca cultivation by two-thirds in Peru and by more than half in Bolivia...