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YOUR STORY ON DRUGS FLOWING through the Caribbean downplays and ignores the constant and untiring effort of governments in these resource-poor countries to win the war against narco-trafficking. St. Kitts and Nevis continue to cooperate fully with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and they have entered into several treaty arrangements to fight the anathema of illicit drug trading. My government has undertaken to restructure, train and equip the local police force and coast guard in our fight to stem the flow of illegal drugs into our country. The drug problem is not of our own making. However...
Castro: It is very difficult. We have tried it with the narco-traffickers and lost some of our planes...
...where he has long been considered too soft on drug traders. The State Department dismissed the storm in Bogota as an "internal" issue, but Republican Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, demanded that Colombia be "decertified," or given a failing grade, for its efforts in the narco wars. If the certification ruling, due March 1, goes against Colombia, repercussions on preferential trade and credit arrangements would be severe. The U.S. government was pleased last summer when the Colombians scored a coup by jailing six of the seven top Cali barons. However, Washington officials grumbled about Samper...
...mean more painful news for Samper, who, a Bogota analyst predicted, "will be staggering from revelation to revelation if he doesn't step down." Valdivieso sees one potential benefit in the crisis. "If it is resolved properly," he suggests, "at a time when Colombians are willing to reject the narco society they used to tolerate, we will have a better country." That obviously depends on whether Samper stays or goes...
...bailed out Mexico by issuing loan guarantees that will cost the U.S. $20 billion if Mexico defaults. "Mexico is not a stable country right now," says Indiana Republican Congressman Dan Burton, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee. "It's almost, although not quite, a narco-democracy...