Word: mosquera
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Under a torrential downpour, Dandeny Munoz Mosquera spoke into a pay phone outside a Queens flower shop. A team of agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration watched him from a parked car across the street. Before he knew what was happening, Munoz Mosquera suddenly had a dozen guns pointed at his head. "We have captured the single most trusted hit man of the Medellin cartel," announced New York DEA chief Robert Bryden. Munoz Mosquera is believed to have killed 40 Colombian officers, government officials, witnesses and innocent bystanders, and may have masterminded the 1989 murder of presidential candidate Luis Carlos...
...York City. Agents immediately launched a round-the-clock search to head him off before President Bush, top Colombian officials and dozens of other dignitaries -- any of whom might have been potential targets -- arrived in New York City for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. Munoz Mosquera will probably be extradited to Colombia to face trial on charges of murder and robbery...
...most colorful scene was at the village of Mosquera, 13 miles from Bogota, where the Pope was set down by helicopter before 50,000 campesinos. Leaving his copter, Paul boarded a white Jeep and, for half an hour, drove through a multitude of awed faces. Present in the crowd were "typical" peasants from 21 Latin American coun tries, selected to attend the confrontation with the Pontiff. Bolivia sent the head of its National Peasants' Union...
Education over Violence. Everywhere, Paul tried to sound a call to reconciliation and reform. He advised the new priests to "be able to understand men's concerns and to transform them. not into anger and violence, but into the powerful force of constructive work." At Mosquera, he told the campesinos: "We know how, in the great continent of Latin America, economic and social development has been unequal. It has passed over the multitude of the indigenous peoples, who have almost always been abandoned to an ignoble level of life...
...Colombian Senate convicted Rojas of "overstepping his authority" and of "using the office of President to increase, in an unlawful form, his assets and those of others." It was the first time a Colombian ex-President faced the music since 1867, when General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera was convicted of setting up a monopoly on the sale of salt...