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...began last October, when Los Angeles-based Correspondent Jonathan Beaty undertook to find out how the trade had changed in recent years. Beaty visited Central and South America, where he had, as he puts it, "whispered interviews with cocaine traffickers in Rio nightclubs, a clandestine meeting with one of Panama's most influential smugglers, and spirited political discussions with coca plantation owners in Bolivia." But given the sheer size, profitability and economic importance of the dope trade, Beaty says, "it wasn't surprising that some of my most secret meetings were held not with cocaine barons but with hard-pressed...
...mile-high capital of La Paz. There he interviewed Deputy Minister of the Interior Gustavo Sanchez, the country's top law- enforcement official, who has earned the enmity of cocaine racketeers and therefore keeps a machine gun handy by his desk. Mexico City Correspondent Ricardo Chavira investigated Panama's role as a transshipment point for drug traders...
...homeless chose to be out in the cold. On the first night of the sweep, the police picked up only 14 street people, two of whom went against their will. One, a woman of 66, protested that she was "waiting for a ship to take me back to Panama." The other said simply, "I'm an alcoholic, and this is my life...
...people. The list is long: in the Philipines, Vice-President Bush calls unpopular dictator Marcos a "friend of democracy," and we continue to give the autocratic regime military aid with which it tortures civilian leaders in complete disregard of human rights and other freedoms we stand for. In Panama, this summer the military-backed dictator Nicholas. A. Barletta was declared president in a very questionable election, and President Reagan congratulated the "victor...
...Contadora process, involving efforts by the governments of Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama to achieve peace in the region by negotiation, can be useful, depending on how it is handled. The original proposals could, if pushed to their maximum, provide for the removal of Cuban and other foreign forces, prevent foreign bases and eliminate arms assistance to other revolutionary forces elsewhere in the area. In general, the U.S. should continue working with Contadora, but it must insist on effective enforcement and should not let itself be pressured into accepting a premature and incomplete agreement. Standing on principle and playing...