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...from entering the U.S.," complains Bolivian Under Secretary of the Interior Gustavo Sanchez. While U.S. officials claim that it is illicit production that begets consumption, many South Americans contend that the process works the other way round. "The U.S. is to blame for most of this mess," says one Panamanian official. "If there weren't the frightening demand in the States, we wouldn't even have to worry about trying to eliminate the supply." As reports of cocaine use in the developing world circulate, says Enrique Elias Laroza, Peru's former Justice Minister, South American governments lose heart and people...
...business of the Colombian drug czars has emerged from the shadows, their illicit dealings with neighboring countries like Panama have also come to light. Ever since the cocaine market began to prosper, some Panamanians have taken money in exchange for allowing the coqueros to use their country as a transshipment point. In addition, a few corrupt Panamanian bankers have permitted the Colombians to take advantage of the strictest banking secrecy laws in the hemisphere by laundering drug dollars. Last June U.S. customs agents in Miami discovered that a DC-8 jet transport, owned by Inair, at the time Panama...
...shipments of marijuana that are transported from Colombia to the U.S. at the conclusion of the pot harvest in November and December. The elaborate strategy called for Colombian soldiers to move against marijuana traffickers in the Guajira Peninsula, between the Gulf of Venezuela and the Caribbean. With Venezuelan and Panamanian soldiers guarding their respective borders, the smugglers would be forced to ship out the marijuana. At sea in the Caribbean, they were to be met by American vessels. The pot would be confiscated and the smugglers arrested. Operation Hat Trick was big, ambitious and, supposedly, highly secret...
With time winding down, the Elis grew increasingly frustrated, and began throwing elbows with the frequency of Panamanian boxers in the waning minutes...
...America, should have known better than to take the words of Ortega and Marcial at face value. But they are not the point of the book. While Getting To Know The General is dedicated to "the friends of my friend, Omar Torrijos," its real goal is to eulogize the Panamanian leader. To the list of the General's accomplishments, not the least of which was setting Panama on the road to becoming only the second Central American nation to form a lasting democracy, Greene adds a deeply personal, very moving look at the man. Early in the book, Greene explains...