Word: narcos
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...cocaine raid. ``Fujimori is a politician in the middle of a campaign,'' says Carol Graham, a visiting fellow at the World Bank. ``Nationalism is a nerve that politicians in need of some kind of boost can touch.'' Says former diplomat Manuel Vacula: ``Who does this benefit? Fujimori and the narco-army. Who can say now that the military is a major drug trafficker? It would be treason...
...said, asserting that he is a victim, not a collaborator, of the drug lords. In 1989 he was shot 14 times by hitmen for drug lords in a Bogota airport ambush, but miraculously survived. For all that, allegations he and his party were accepting money from the narco-barons were so persistent that last October Gelbard traveled to Bogota to warn Samper to stay clear of their money or risk damaging U.S.-Colombia relations should he be elected...
...proves the claim that Samper is in league with the dealers. "This guy has a long history of trafficking connections," says a senior policymaker, who suggests that while the tapes do not make for a "smoking gun," they provide "very compelling evidence" that Samper owes his victory to the narco-mafia...
...Colombian authorities in return for the safe passage of his wife and two children to the U.S. DEA officials deny that the U.S. has agreed to such a deal. But any accord that is eventually cut with the Colombian government, they warn, could well portend a new narco era dominated by -- who else? -- Pepes...
Panamanian President Guillermo Endara's nascent antidrug force is starting to score some seizures, thanks to an infusion of U.S. aid, but it remains badly outmanned and outgunned by the narco-traficantes. Says a senior official of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration: "The Endara government has had to create a viable antinarcotic unit from nothing. In our view it has done an excellent...