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Castano is a backer of Plan Colombia--in which the U.S. is funding a $1.3 billion drug-eradication program--even though most of the AUC's funds come from shaking down drug traffickers. "I prefer taking cash from the narcos than from honest people," says Castano, who explains that his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Of The Jungle | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

"Plan Colombia changes the spectrum of the conflict. The military component will affect us, but it affects us less than the guerrillas. We control about 25,000 hectares in Santander province and another 20,000 in south Bolivar - coca zones that we won in battle from the FARC and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs, Violence and Peace: A Colombian Gunman Speaks | 11/22/2000 | See Source »

"I'd prefer taking cash from the narcos than from honest people whose legitimate businesses can't finance this war."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs, Violence and Peace: A Colombian Gunman Speaks | 11/22/2000 | See Source »

"Six of my relatives have been kidnapped in the last ten years," the woman said to me. She told me of the terror of living in Colombia under the rule of a president that entirely kowtowed to the demands of a much powerful nation--the omnipotent United States. Her reasons...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Funding the Wrong War | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

Having been at war for 36 years and flush with cash from taxing the narcos, the FARC maintains a sophisticated fighting force of more than 15,000 guerrillas. They control some 40 percent of the country, and are engaged in turf wars with a smaller rival leftist group, the ELN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream, E-mail and Casual Sex: Life Among Colombia's Guerrillas | 9/7/2000 | See Source »

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