Word: medellins
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...incendiary political issue. The country has become a principal gateway for South American cocaine, Middle Eastern heroin and North African hashish. Although the government has stepped up enforcement, its combat against the drug trade is uneven. Colombian Justice Minister Fernando Carrillo Florez recently charged that "the battle against the Medellin cartel is being lost because of Spanish bureaucratic hassles" in delivering evidence against dealers...
...informant named Barry Seal was involved in something fishy at the airport in Mena, a heavily wooded town 130 miles west of Little Rock. In 1984 Seal played a part in Oliver North's campaign to prove that the Sandinista government was in league with Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. In exchange for a reduced sentence on drug-smuggling charges, Seal flew his C-123 transport plane to Managua and picked up 750 kilos of cocaine from a high-ranking Sandinista official, recording the transaction with hidden cameras...
...Medellin and Cali Cartels, the two most powerful drug organizations in Colombia, bought players, teams and referees, Santos said...
Santos became a target for retaliation when he continued to write about the Cali and Medellin cartels. In September 1990, he was apprehended by men who cornered his car on a Bogota Street...
Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellin cartel, admitted in a note written during the kidnapping that Santos had "balls...